“There’s a certain sameness to high-end restaurant experiences” - Totally what a poor person would say.

I totally get where Raven’s coming from. Coincidentally, last week my son(13 y.o. Black & Puerto Rican), and I had a similar conversation regarding how I decided on his a name. My name is Lashauna Shanté. I’m a Black female, and when I was born, it was during a time when giving your child unique names had just become…

A lot of the ‘weirdest’ or ‘funniest’ Indian names have very, very beautiful meanings and sound really lovely when pronounced properly. That said, my parents gave me and my siblings Indian names that wouldn’t be butchered in North America.

I don’t get what's so weird about the name Toby ?!

In my call-center days, I used to keep a list of unusual names/creative spellings I saw. One of my favorites was “Jackoleen.”

I used to teach in Korea, where kids picked an English name for English class. There were a lot of Davids and Jennifers and Angelinas but also Gandalf, Naruto, Strawberry, Magician, Crusader, etc. Brad Pitt changed his name to Green Day, then became Brad Green Pitt Day until I called a halt to proceedings.

I hate misspellings. I don’t mean Anne v Ann or whatever, but when people randomly shove letters into names but insist the pronunciation is the same, or insist the only ‘vowel’ needs to be a Y. And even then I’m not judging the person with the name, but in my head, I am severely judging their parents - especially the…

I loathe the Aiden-rhyming names. You're right to be annoyed by them, they're always little shits with blonde bowl haircuts.

But you know where all the latest hot clubs to go in NYC, right??

I’ve worked with people for MONTHS and not known their names. I have to covertly get people to say them or refer to them. It’s ridiculous. I have a mind like a steel trap otherwise, but names. Done.

“Jacqueline” being perceived as a “Latina” name is interesting because it isn’t even phonetically possible in Spanish, not to mention the Spanish. I guess it’s like “Eric” being perceived as an “Asian” name.

After working with a woman named Wee Wee Wang (she went with something more anglicized after someone explained it) I formed the untested hypothesis that all names are obscene in another language.

You have it easy. There’s a name in my country that would be the worst fucking nightmare for anyone that has it and is planning on living in an English-speaking country. The name is Slave. It has nothing to do with the English noun, it is pronounced differently, but my god, I cannot think of a worse name... Mine’s not…

Yeah, I can’t remember all these names because they all start with a K and they’re new names that the parents have made up. Which cool, fine. In 15 years they will be normal. Right now they’re not and I just don’t like them. I like some weird names. I don’t even mind Raven as a name. This is a completely subjective…

Not French? Spanish doesn't really ever pair a C and a Q.

I agree that some names are stupid. But I have to confess some are fine and they still annoy me — like the Aidan-Brayden-Zaidan-rhyming male names and the Anna-lynn, Brae-lynn inflation. Too much, it’s too much. I’m a grump.

Hell, my normal, popular American name was considered utterly unpronounceable in China due to having too many syllables, an l (that is, an American l, most Asian countries pronounce the letter very differently), and a v. I had about five different nicknames depending on who was speaking to me, including Tza (formerly…

My mom named me Cöelis, um-laut linguistically incorrect, means heaven in Latin, pronounced CHAY-lees. I had a boss who refused to call me by my name. Seriously. I quit, obviously, after telling him to go fuck himself. I’m having a kid n you better believe that little fucker’s gonna have one weird ass name ;D

I don’t know.. some names are just stupid. This doesn’t just apply to black people’s names. Watermelondrea is awful. Come on. And so is Kayden or Kayleigh or any of the cutesy K variations out there.

I’ve always heard the Jez writers are trigger happy.