JessieK wrote:I like Avery, but Dan says he thinks it's feminine.
So?
"Dale" is feminine, too, but we all love "Dale."
I even know a man named Mary!
So do we all, if only we all knew it... (Where's that damn cryptic smiley...?)
cran also wrote:Harold...
Yeh, Harold is good.
And whether the blood be highland, lowland or no.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
Then again, I'm from the camp where nice sounds aren't enough to make a name, but that meanings and/or suggested references count. I won't even go into the unfortunate examples I've encountered where no apparent thought was given to a name other than the parent thought it sounded nice.
After all, Judas sounds nice, too.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
Then again, I'm from the camp where nice sounds aren't enough to make a name, but that meanings and/or suggested references count. I won't even go into the unfortunate examples I've encountered where no apparent thought was given to a name other than the parent thought it sounded nice.
After all, Judas sounds nice, too.
Well, then, how about Greece? Sounds like a greaser? Oh well.
I knew someone named Dyesebel... pronounced as Jezebel.
The thing is, I think Jezebel is a beautiful name. It's just forever ruined by association with the Biblical woman of the same name.
I do like the sound of the name Judas--and as Walden pointed out a few weeks ago, people do still name their kids Judas, just in a different spelling: Jude.
It's interesting how Judas would survive but Jezebel would cease to exist as a given name...
Cranberry wrote:The thing is, I think Jezebel is a beautiful name. It's just forever ruined by association with the Biblical woman of the same name. It would be the same as naming your child "Whοre."
That's what I'm getting at. In any case, it shortens the list poor parents have to tear out their hair over.
Well, I see you've edited whilst I composed and considered. No matter. The point about Jude and Judas is an interesting one, and in part cultural. "Jude" and "Judas" have been present as "separate" names in English translations of the Bible for a long time, and my opinion is that despite their similarity of form and oneness of origin, they have come to be regarded as entirely separate names with different associations based on Biblical context.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
Cranberry wrote:The thing is, I think Jezebel is a beautiful name. It's just forever ruined by association with the Biblical woman of the same name. It would be the same as naming your child "Whοre."
That's what I'm getting at. In any case, it shortens the list poor parents have to tear out their hair over.
Well, I see you've edited whilst I composed and considered. No matter. The point about Jude and Judas is an interesting one, and in part cultural. "Jude" and "Judas" have been present as "separate" names in English translations of the Bible for a long time, and my opinion is that despite their similarity of form and oneness of origin, they have come to be regarded as entirely separate names with different associations based on Biblical context.
I understand. I didn't want to use the word "Whοre" because it looked too uncensored so I edited it out.
I wonder if it isn't more acceptable in our culture to be named after one who betrayed the Son of God than it is to be named after a killer floozey.
Well... we do find her accused of it in this passage, " And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?"
But is this literal whoredom, or spiritual? If we are speaking figurative, wasn't what Judas did similar to harlotry?
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