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[_peapod]

I LOVE THE CRACK BABY FIC.

esorlehcar, you were right. it is utterly brilliant omg. NEED MORE GIMME.

now must read author's entire back catalogue.

still, though: candace? *shudder* i figure the author's american, because there's this whole big english thing about names that americans don't seem to get.

extrapolation:we english still have a class system

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[seraphinhunter]

oh *geeks out on you*
man, i love to learn new stuff /worker-class pseudo-english

i shall name myself henry from now on for my mother wanted to call me jan-hendrik if i'd been a boy Oo

btw, there's something similar like this going on in germany. for example, an upper-class name is 'julius'.

AND I WON'T READ THAT FIC! I HAVE WRITTEN NEW DOM/BILLY, DOM/HANNAH ANGST.
<3

[_peapod]

I WANT TO SEE IT. YOU LET SHANALLE READ IT OMG!!

my cousin is called henry. it's a middle-class name. julius would be julian, and that's pretty middle-class too. OMG.

[seraphinhunter]

I JUST SENT IT TO YOU YOU GREDEDY h0r!!!

omg what are upper-class names in ingland ?

[_peapod]

yay!

god, it varies a lot. give me a name and i'll class it for you, yo.

[siri_eerin]

I'm not sure whether I'm middle or working class.

But I'm not called Kylie. >_

[_peapod]

well you have a foreign name so YOU DON'T COUNT, BLOODY JOHNNY FOREIGNER.

[siri_eerin]

YA IK BIN FOREIGN

fucking brits

[siri_eerin]

Hmmm...my familie's names:

Susan
Peter
Sara
Claire,
Diane
Richard
Roy (?)
Annette
Adele
Samantha
Shauna
Slawka
Denise
Victoria
Micheal
Alexander

Hmmmmm.........what's the verdict?

[siri_eerin]

cqan;t splel.

[_peapod]

middle AND FOREIGN O9MG.

[siri_eerin]

o_O

<3

I loff you portiiia

Grrr....I need to geek moot with you.....*waits for student loan*

[sumbitch]

I love name theory.

America's exactly the same way. Generally, there's an inverse relationship between how fancy or original a name is and how upmarket it is. Upper-middle-class names: Emily, Emma, Ann, Jack, Max. Lower-class names: Crystal, Tiffany, Dakota, Cheyenne, Ashley, anything with a non-standard spelling.

This changes slightly at the very top of the market, where the truly wealthy are.

And you're right, "Candace" is fairly downmarket.

my girlfriend and I used to play "guess the socioeconomic class" with the baby announcements. Like, you know that "Charlotte Rose" lives in a different house from "Tawnya Monique".

It's complicated here somewhat by the fact that African-Americans have their own set of distinctive naming preferences (which, American society being what it is, often translate to "downmarket".)

[_peapod]

there's been a definite rise in popularity of 'black' names recently amongst white parents. i keep seeing all these blonde-haired, blue-eyed toddlers called 'jamal', and i'm like 'bzuh?'.

like i say, there's a big pool of names that remains pretty standard across the classes - thomas, sarah, matthew, etc - but as in america, anything 'creatively' spelt is pretty downmarket. for example, why do people replaces 'c' with 'k'? it's just WRONG.

[_wizzard_]

Katharine with a K is ten times better. No opinion on the rest of C/K names.

Most of the time, class discussions on the internet make me break out in hives. On another message board I frequent there's this girl who lives in London and keeps saying things are so "council." *stabs* *kills* *maims* She's an American and she's being fucking classist!

[_peapod]

council as in 'council estate'? that's so fucking stupid. one of my best friends lived on a council estate, and from what i saw there was a mixture of middle/working class people living there. class isn't about money, anyway.

katharine with a 'k' is a traditional name, at least. i'm fussy about names, i dunno why.

[esorlehcar]

esorlehcar, you were right. it is utterly brilliant omg. NEED MORE GIMME.

YAY YAY YAY! God, I can't wait for the rest to be posted.

[_peapod]

me neither! now i must read lost and all the rest.

OMG IS DOM'S BABY GOING TO DIE?!

*tears out hair in horrified anticipation*