Comment on Blessica Blimpson

Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I agree about the name being horrible, but parents are going with more and more, let’s just say ‘unusual’ names, spellings and pronunciations these days. I’ve got a Grandson named Charon. Socially, it hasn’t really been a bonus for him.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve got a Grandson named Charon

    Isn’t that something from greek mythology? I swear there’s something like that in greek mythology…

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    • woodenskewer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You swear correctly. He is the boatman of the river Styx. He ferries souls to Hades in the afterlife if the individual was buried with the ferry toll. If they didn’t have the ferry toll they’d be fated to wandering the banks of the river Styx for 100 years before they could cross.

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      • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s certainly several orders of magnitude better than Blessica…

        Although mythological names are often cool, it’s always worth researching fully. Loki may suddenly be super cool thanks to the MCU, but he still got fucked by a horse.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dang that’s a pretty metal name for a kid. I can’t decide if its terrible or brilliant

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      • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Imo, Charon’s actually a cool name

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      • solrize@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Also the badass hotel concierge in the John Wick movies.

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    • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He ran the ferry boat across the Styx to the underworld and had a 3 headed dog…

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      • woodenskewer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Cerberus was next in line to the house of Hades, but Charon was not his master. Hades was.

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• webadict@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Eh, the kid could have worse, and it seems pretty fitting for the name’s origins.

  If you think of children as blessings, and want to change an existing name a little – in this case, Jessica – it makes sense. The first recorded instance of Jessica is from Shakespeare, who could’ve changed the biblical Iesca (Jeska) to Jessica by mixing Jesse into it (or making Jesse into a woman’s name… or other potential origins like the word jess being turned into a name.) And you consider Bless to be a name (though rather unpopular), so it wouldn’t even be particularly odd for the name.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The kid could’ve been named “Anna” which also means blessing. She wanted to call her blessica because she was blessed to have her. Which yeah - just go with Anna

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    • webadict@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you arguing that variants of names meaning blessing shouldn’t exist, or are you just against a new name? Because every name was new at one point, and lots of new names are variants of older ones.

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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “Blessica” is a stupid name and naming someone that for those reasons is wrong. The husband is right. You don’t give kids quirky names, especially with a shitty surname already.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anyways then you and your entire family and social group die in the same event, like a volcano burying your village.

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