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a) lie b) maybe that will be common enough by then c) does that really come up a lot? I don't think I ever asked why and don't think I would require a profound answer. I guess maybe if it wasn't a name that blended in I would have more questions and thoughts about it.
> does that really come up a lot? I have. My middle name is both obscure in its sound and more obscure in its spelling.
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> Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names. Such as? In my experience, upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, usually a bit on the conservative side, nothing that sticks out too much. Never crazy spelling, never unique names.
> Such as? In my experience upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, ... Never crazy spelling, never unique names. X Æ A-12 Musk? Never say never.
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> It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names.
> Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names. Such as? In my experience, upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, usually a bit on the conservative side, nothing that sticks out too much. Never crazy spelling, never unique names.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/05/jacob-rees-...
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Problem validation is a brilliant idea. Unique names though… there’s a certain safety in numbers that a common name affords. A unique name is very easy to target in searches.
It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Also, the number of people who hate their "unique and quirky" name they got from their parents is much, much, much, much higher than the number of people who hate their normal name.
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Why an app rather than a static site deployed to something free like GitHub pages? Could even have the data in a repo to accept pull requests for new names.
"Why isn't this a text file so that everybody can simply use their Unix shells to shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/baby-names".
I trust the browser sandbox a million times more than I trust the phone app sandbox.
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> Such as? In my experience upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, ... Never crazy spelling, never unique names. X Æ A-12 Musk? Never say never.
Being rich doesn't make you upper class, evidently.
In French, nom is your surname. Prénom is your name (given name). Your surnom is your nickname.
Bonne journée ! (The French put spaces before some punctuation too)
This is cool. But, I am also swinging by to be the jerk who points out a funny thing about French (because the app's name is in French): In French, nom is your surname. Prénom is your name (given name). Your surnom is your nickname. Bonne journée ! (The French put spaces before some punctuation too)
This is cool. But, I am also swinging by to be the jerk who points out a funny thing about French (because the app's name is in French): In French, nom is your surname. Prénom is your name (given name). Your surnom is your nickname. Bonne journée ! (The French put spaces before some punctuation too)