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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1361025

Idk, something chill like Hakim Shaoqi... or Mikhail Sorensen

Each in different scripts (arabic et chinese) or (Cyrlic and Roman)

Eg. 少奇 حكيم (for completely foreign name) or Михаил Sörensen

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[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Kids spend a huge amount of time at school. A good kid's name needs to be yellable across the playground, (I knew a kid named Garfield, who went by Gar. Fine for conversation but you couldn't call him without sounding idiotic.) singable for Happy Birthday, (my own is awkwardly long and off-meter) and not an obvious rhyme for any embarrassing body parts or functions. (Mulva?) It helps if it is spelled in a way that supports correct pronunciation, or at least doesn't suggest an awkward mispronunciation. Kamylia (pronounced like camellia) works, Cameltoe doesn't. A foreign language name, like an heirloom, should have a provenance or family story. Not just random appropriation. "I named my kid Shanghai because he's how his mom Shanghaied me into marriage." Terrible, but at least it's better than nothing.

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