Baby's Named a Bad Bad Thing

[lindiril]

Meg, you know I love ya, babe, but that one site you link? Baby's Named A Bad, Bad Thing? It drives me fucking insane. Whoever wrote it is not generally a hell of a lot smarter than the potential parents he/she mocks. For instance:

Chenaur - She can grow up into a half-man, half-bull who roams the labirynth!

Right. Because it's not like it sounds more like centaur than minotaur.

Yes, it's true that:

• the names with too many k's, n's, and y's look stupid and will be hell for the poor child to have spelled correctly
• the names made up to sound like some particular, probably not child-matching ethnicity end up looking pretentious and stupid
• parents who want to name their child Scatman mystify me.

However:

• not all Juniors or "the Third"s are named directly after fathers; grandfathers and uncles often get into the act
• there's nothing wrong with naming your child after a bird even if there are other birds out there that have the word "booby" or "breasted" in them
• a name being foreign in origin and also coincidentally the name of some alcoholic product is not a reason to make fun of it (I'm thinking Beaufort here, which is a perfectly good name and whose port wine incarnation, or whatever, is unknown to me).

The author of that page is an asshole who often comes out sounding as uneducated or moreso than the people he or she mocks, and like an arrogant asshole to boot. Congratulations to him or her.

I feel that the poorly constructed list is my friend.

As a final comment, I feel a mite ornery today. Could anyone tell?