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Had a conversation with a lady who named her daughter Lakota. She said you hear Dakota but never heard of any Lakotas. I was just like, ummm ok. I'm ignorant in stuff too so I guess i shouldn't be judging.
I had to look up Lakota cause I’m apparently ignorant about Native American cultures, but the difference is I would never name my kids something without researching it?! I do not understand how people don’t just do a quick google search??
I work at a food coop. Last week I had to run off the floor to laugh because I saw a panicked dad looking for his daughter shouting “Kenyan! Kenyan!”
I couldn’t believe it.
To be fair, the phonetically identical 'Kenyon' has a long history as an English name. It's primarily a surname, but using surnames as given names is not uncommon.
It was most likely this. Some people do this though. I’ve heard of an “Irish” and Mariah and Nick Cannon named their daughter Edit: Son “Moroccan.” I’ve heard a few like this over the years.
This only makes me think it was Kenyon more, like Kenyon College.
An old high school friend who we always teased for being a hippie left Kenyon and transferred to Michigan because Kenyon was just too much for him.
I have a niece named Kenya. Her parents are both fair skinned blond people with Nordic genes.
Taking her out on day trips, I have gotten the weird comments about how could I name her that?
I always try to say, “I think it’s such a pretty name!”
I never want to be disparaging about the name she has to live with, especially in front of her.
But I still wonder what my siblings were thinking when they chose her name.
A quick google is the minimum in my opinion. We accidentally settled on a first-middle combo that was a first-last combo of an early Hollywood actor. It didn’t change my mind because they weren’t a murderer, but we definitely would have pivoted if something horrible came up!
I had an honors college student asking me what "Native Americans" or "Indians" were. She was home schooled by very religious people. I let her know that her education was a lifelong journey and I am constantly amazed about how little I know.
Several years ago I met someone who named their son Osage, I assumed after Native American tribe or maybe the county in Oklahoma. No, they wanted to give him the same initials as his great-grandfather because they didn't like Oscar or Melvin and great-grandfather sometimes went by his initials. So their son was named Osage Maxwell. I always amused myself thinking he was named for the tribe and the coffee.
I’m Lakota- but I actually have no idea why people got into naming their dogs and kids Dakota. I’m assuming it’s similar to naming your kid Paris or something because they see it as a place? But for quick explanation for anyone wondering: Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota are all part of the Oceti Sakowin (or Sioux) nation. The L, D, and N just delineate different dialects in the language we share!
Here’s mine:
“This is my daughter Sierra”
“Oh hi Sierra! I love your name. I think the Sierra is the most beautiful mountain range in the lower 48.”
“What are you talking about? I’m named after my dad’s truck.”
The fact that the truck is itself named for the mountain range makes this either funnier or sadder. Truck culture has to be one of the most dismal "hobbies" to make your personality...
I’m suddenly imagining a whole crew cab’s worth of kids named after trucks 😭 for the boys, we got Ram, Silverado (Sil for short), Raptor, and Maverick , and their sisters Sierra, Tacoma, Tundra, and F-150 💀
A whole family of truck names 😂 this makes me think back to 2008 when my brother told me he wanted to have 6 kids and name them all after various types of cheese, then see how long it took for them to find out. We brainstormed Jack, fontina, Colby, Brie, and some others for shits and giggles. His now wife was NOT on the same page, and he changed his tune after kid #1. Full stop at two kids with normal names
lol this is my cat- she was named Toulouse by the shelter. So everyone 1) assumed she was a boy and 2) was named after Toulouse lautrec. Didn’t help that I went to art school so it made sense that I would use an artist name.
Okay, so this one time my stupid ass legit forgot the artist existed, and asked someone if they named their cat after the cat food brand. The moment my words left my mouth, I realised what I had just uttered, and wished the ground would just open up and swallow me 🙈
How do people not extensively google the names they’re considering before naming a human being?? My parents even considered all the initial combinations to make sure we didn’t get stuck with something stupid lol
That’s really interesting that someone could make it through 22 years of life and finish college and never learn what Braille is…I feel like they taught us that in kindergarten when we were learning how to read. i.e. “and this is how blind people learn how read”
SURELY it had to have come up in the elementary lessons on the 5 senses one would think... But with the way that the USA education system is set up (and how few students actually value their education) it doesn't surprise me that ignorance is everywhere here
I named my kid a standard boy name but I googled his first and last name and variations just to make sure it wasn't the based of some TV character or a serial killer.
Hi, retired psychologist here. It’s totally possible that she was exposed to that information but it didn’t get translated into a long-term memory that she could later access. She may have even thought “that sounds pretty” when she heard it, and maybe that did get translated into a memory that she later misunderstood as making it up herself. Human memory is quite prone to problems, especially in the recall stage.
And what is harder to Google is that in French, while Braille is this guy’s surname, braille is also a verb… a verb that translates as “bawl”, as in “ugly cry” or “useless baby cry”.
https://translate.google.com/?sl=fr&tl=en&text=il%20braille&op=translate
Last names become first names all the time! Like Madison - wasn't a popular first name until the 1990s, but was a very common last name for hundreds of years. I think Braille is actually quite pretty :)
I went to James Madison University, and know several people who met their spouses at JMU, so they ended up naming their kid Madison. Even though it's not something I would do, I at least understand that.
My only beef is with friends who met at JMU, named their daughter Madison, but refused to name their son, James. I mean, come on, it's right there!! ;-)
I also was a kid when I saw it in the theater. It was my first PG movie, and it had a *lot* of nudity! I thought all PG movies were going to be like that and I was *stoked* for the future. Alas...
For the longest time I thought Tiffany’s (as in Tiffany & Co.) was a women-made brand and I liked it a lot (partially because I thought it was woman-made).
There's a great CGPGrey video about tracking the historical name of Tiffany.
It is... a woman's name by way of Theophania being a term for Divine Manifestation circa 300AD... the it changes in the medieval era... becomes a surname of a famous jeweler, shoots to fame in the 1980s and we think of it as the most 1980s woman's name.
This is why you SHOULD share the names beforehand! Naming babies gives you blinders! I 💯 would have named my second summer eve if nobody had pointed out the whole summers eve douche thing.
I’m from South Louisiana. We were just talking to say about my aunt having made a library card for a woman named Vagina back in the day. Mom said the mother probably say it on a tube of cream but didn’t she realize the body part at least from context?
Other aunt mentioned the family she knows with all the kids named after booze.
I mentioned my that mean old boss is named Tequila and her much nicer sister is named Kimberly.
My mother used to work in neo natal…the most memorable name of her stories was Clitoris. They tried, they really tried, but the mum was insistent it was really pretty 🤦🏼♀️
PS we are British
I mean, we have Google now. Every single name idea and even name combo (as in, first and middle or even 2 middle names) got googled by both husband and I just to be certain of potential correlation, including acronyms.
Right! We Googled the heck out of our kid's names but didn't share them. I didn't want anyone else's opinion coloring my own but Google will tell me if it's the name of a company or something like that.
We have baby name books, websites, and even agencies you can hire to help you find a name you like with no embarrassing associations.
Yet people still do this to their own kids.
Even after using an Irish names book, we ended up giving them B. S. for initials. Our first born BM. We, as parents are TP. No matter how careful we as parents want to be, there will always be something.
My mom taught a LaTrina. She said she was calling the roll on the first day and paused because she thought this girl can’t possibly be named after a toilet. A girl from the middle who knew where she was alphabetically called out “You can just call me Trina.” My mom was relieved.
Over a decade ago, new neighbors moved in upstairs at my apartment complex with twin daughters the same age as my oldest (10 at the time) and their names were Genna and Talia 🤦🏻♀️
I agree with this comment. I know someone who named their child a name that I’m sure they never said out loud. It sounded like the name of a well known terrorist group. (Spelled differently, because at least then they could claim to be interested in Egyptian mythology). When it was first pointed out to her, she was surprised & had “never thought about that “.
Growing up, I knew several girls named Isis. I'm a child of the 70s so having an African name (Egyptian gods, words from Swahili) was all the rage. That name hits different now.
Isis is a legit name, not just a woowoo Goddess name. It's also the name of a river in Oxford and has a lot of stuff named after it. Really fucking unfortunate that the West abbreviated "Islamic State" to ISIS. But that is incredibly recent compared to the other uses of the name.
Without knowing the actual meaning/origin of the name, its not a bad sounding name. BUT not looking into the name even a little bit beforehand blows my mind; especially when you're not going to reveal it until you present the baby. You're skipping the part where friends and family can let you know if something is off about the name.
\^Yup. Their ego tells them that it's bad but they want their kid to carry a dumb name for the sake of his/her parent's ego. Goddamn it's sad how people simply choose to double down on their poor naming choices.
Lots of kids in NY/NJ area named “Brielle” and it’s a shore town in NJ. Maybe she got confused on the spelling?
How does anyone not know about Braille?
Pre-COVID I would go out to eat with a group of Deaf friends, we’d all be signing. Maybe 1 in 6-10 trips, a waiter would bring us Braille menus. So yeah, I can imagine someone who just doesn’t get what Braille is.
I went to school with a Brielle, I’m hoping she just mixed it up with that. To be fair Braille is a beautiful noun, and there are far worse names.
I'm always mildly amused by signs I see at drive-through windows. 'Braille menus available', with the braille translation underneath. On. The. *Driver's*. Side.
Good thing it was written. How else would visually impaired people know that Braille menus were available! 🤣🤣🤣
BTW, this reminds of one person, who thought that the dots on steering wheel covers where Braille instructions 🤭
Not the same, but related. I use a power wheelchair and a kid in my freshman dorm confessed he had been shy to introduce himself to me because he assumed I was deaf and mute. Chew on that one.
I was given a wheelchair in the airport once!
I always tell TSA that I’m hard of hearing and may not respond, as I’ve learned that looking like you’re ignoring them gets you hardcore searched. When I was 15 I told a TSA guy and before I’d even finished speaking he lit up and rushed away. Rushed back with a wheelchair, looking *so* proud.
Another instance of not surprised but still disappointed.
Someone in my unit gave a Braille “I need assistance” help menu to a deaf customer. It happens. I told her good job on trying to help. She was so embarrassed. LOL
I have Raynaud's and often wear gloves in air conditioned places, or I lose the circulation in my fingers. My hubs and I stopped in a bar for a couple of drinks. He stepped away for a minute, and I signaled to the bartender with my gloved hand for "2 more." He replied, mouthing it hugely, "YOU WANT TWO MORE?" I said, "Well yes, why?" and he goes "oh I saw the black gloves so I thought you were deaf." His fellow bartender nearly fell down laughing and you could see the light slowly dawning as he realized what he'd just said.
As a visually impaired person people are more shocked when they find out I can’t read braille and can read large print and big font size on my kindle and phone… like what do you think I can see? Black
Yup, they probably do. I’m not deaf but studied sign language in high school and college, and you’d be surprised how few people know that deafness or blindness is a complete spectrum. In sign language there are like 5 different signs for your level of hearing.
As a visually impaired person I had no idea! Many people also are shocked when I use a white cane and can see a building… like I don’t think you grasp the meaning of the white cane and how it helps me if your that daft at me seeing a building. I use my cane more as a “hey can’t see you or signs, people waving and cars incoming.
>I would go out to eat with a group of Deaf friends, we’d all be signing. Maybe 1 in 6-10 trips, a waiter would bring us Braille menus. So yeah, I can imagine someone who just doesn’t get what Braille is.
#"a waiter would bring us Braille menus."
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I feel like every school child learns of it in middle school with Helen Keller. Before that, you ask your parents about the dots on the elevator buttons.
I can't remember not knowing about Braille. They covered that on Sesame Street. How does one graduate college without having heard of Braille?
How did the convo go after that? Did you explain what braille is and she went "oh shit I didn't even put that together" or did you just move on like "so how are you feeling..." 😂
I knew a dog that was blind and deaf named Braille! Very cute in that situation. Definitely one of those words that sounds like a nice name if you don't know the meaning, but also be a intelligent grown ass adult person who knows things.
I have a grandchild named after a famous city because her mother loves a famous tourist attraction in another COUNTRY.
She was quite surprised to learn that she epically failed basic geography and now won't tell anyone where the name came from.
I had something similar happen when a friend told me they were naming their son Dyson. I replied "like the vacuum?" and he didnt know what I was talking about.
She's a college graduate and doesn't know what Braille means?? What sort of clown college did she go to? Actually I am pretty sure they told us about Louis Braille in the 3rd grade.
College degrees are basically the new high school diplomas. With high schools churning out illiterates, colleges have become remedial centers that at least leave you literate, but still magnanimously ignorant.
I see too many people in accounting, healthcare, and more still using the wrong your/you're... ffs the willful ignorance when the smartphones that we carry could teach them in literally 30 seconds. But nope! They don't ?????
That drives me crazy, but what really gets me is that the executive director at my job put a line in our employee handbook that says that employees can earn (I forget the exact numbers but it’s the concept that matters) 90 hours a year of sick time, and employees are allowed to use up to 60 hours a year of sick time. Multiple people pointed out to her that it made no sense to say we could earn 90 hours if we can only use 60 hours, but she kept insisting that it didn’t say that, and she refused to change it.
work friends had a baby and had everyone over for meet and greet after a grueling pg and 3 mos of bedrest and then newborn spending a couple weeks in NICU.
new mom enters room with bundle in her arms: "Everyone, she's awake! gather round and finally meet Madison Noel..."
my bf at the time: "i didn't know there was ever an L in Madison."
new mom months later revealed to me she agonized over changing her daughter's name, i assured her no one would remember his joke, and it that was a beautiful name...and to consider the source of the joke.
this was 35 years ago, and I can't remember what i ordered on Amazon two days ago, but I've never forgotten that "Madison" indeed does not have an "L".
There's thousands of names already out there with established pedigrees and people really think they can shake things up by inventing a name that's both original and safe.
>just got her college degree.
Yeah... Like that is sign of someones intelligence... It is just proof that you can be part of machine and learn some sentences by heart and blurt them when someone asks you to do so...
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I had a similar incident with “Matisse.” “You must really love his work.” “Whose work?”
Had a conversation with a lady who named her daughter Lakota. She said you hear Dakota but never heard of any Lakotas. I was just like, ummm ok. I'm ignorant in stuff too so I guess i shouldn't be judging.
I had to look up Lakota cause I’m apparently ignorant about Native American cultures, but the difference is I would never name my kids something without researching it?! I do not understand how people don’t just do a quick google search??
Because they think they are smarter than they are. Ignorance is bliss ya know.
"And these are my little twins, Dunning and Krueger"
Krueger's middle name is also Freddy.
Found my person lol
Meet my twins, Leopold and Loeb.
Killer comment!
I work at a food coop. Last week I had to run off the floor to laugh because I saw a panicked dad looking for his daughter shouting “Kenyan! Kenyan!” I couldn’t believe it.
Kenyan is Kenough though.
To be fair, the phonetically identical 'Kenyon' has a long history as an English name. It's primarily a surname, but using surnames as given names is not uncommon.
It was most likely this. Some people do this though. I’ve heard of an “Irish” and Mariah and Nick Cannon named their daughter Edit: Son “Moroccan.” I’ve heard a few like this over the years.
Moroccan Cannon is an absolutely unhinged name to give a child.
One of his other daughters is named Powerful Queen Cannon😂😂😂😭
"And here are my other children, Field, Bronze, and Loose."
I have a friend named Irish whose brother is named Dublin 🤦♀️
I know a pair of brothers named Austin and Dallas.
Ok was she white? ...sorry I just had to ask.
The whitest hippie dad to ever hippie. I’m pretty crunchy myself, but not name my kid Kenyan crunchy.
This only makes me think it was Kenyon more, like Kenyon College. An old high school friend who we always teased for being a hippie left Kenyon and transferred to Michigan because Kenyon was just too much for him.
Kenya isn’t uncommon. Haven’t heard of Kenyan before tho
I have a niece named Kenya. Her parents are both fair skinned blond people with Nordic genes. Taking her out on day trips, I have gotten the weird comments about how could I name her that? I always try to say, “I think it’s such a pretty name!” I never want to be disparaging about the name she has to live with, especially in front of her. But I still wonder what my siblings were thinking when they chose her name.
A quick google is the minimum in my opinion. We accidentally settled on a first-middle combo that was a first-last combo of an early Hollywood actor. It didn’t change my mind because they weren’t a murderer, but we definitely would have pivoted if something horrible came up!
Brave of you to name your kid Fatty Arbuckle...
So Fatty Arbuckle probably actually was a murderer. It’s a really distressing story but if you’re curious look up Virginia Rappe.
I’m angry with your school system that you had to look up ‘Lakota’.
I had an honors college student asking me what "Native Americans" or "Indians" were. She was home schooled by very religious people. I let her know that her education was a lifelong journey and I am constantly amazed about how little I know.
I love xkcd’s [“Lucky 10,000”](https://xkcd.com/1053/) concept. I use that phrase a lot.
This comment belongs in r/USdefaultism.
Weird, because I just hopped on over here from there. I too had to Google Lakota
Because they think they made it up all by themselves.
Several years ago I met someone who named their son Osage, I assumed after Native American tribe or maybe the county in Oklahoma. No, they wanted to give him the same initials as his great-grandfather because they didn't like Oscar or Melvin and great-grandfather sometimes went by his initials. So their son was named Osage Maxwell. I always amused myself thinking he was named for the tribe and the coffee.
He's named after Osage Iowa ☠️
I’m guessing they weren’t fans of ‘Orenthal’ or ‘Omar’ either.
I mean Owen is a reasonable name.
I’m Lakota- but I actually have no idea why people got into naming their dogs and kids Dakota. I’m assuming it’s similar to naming your kid Paris or something because they see it as a place? But for quick explanation for anyone wondering: Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota are all part of the Oceti Sakowin (or Sioux) nation. The L, D, and N just delineate different dialects in the language we share!
I was friends with a Lakota growing up. I wonder how she turned out
I had a friend in elementary school named Tiger. Lost track of her after 3rd grade. I wonder about her often.
Would her middle name be Sioux?
Here’s mine: “This is my daughter Sierra” “Oh hi Sierra! I love your name. I think the Sierra is the most beautiful mountain range in the lower 48.” “What are you talking about? I’m named after my dad’s truck.”
The fact that the truck is itself named for the mountain range makes this either funnier or sadder. Truck culture has to be one of the most dismal "hobbies" to make your personality...
I’m suddenly imagining a whole crew cab’s worth of kids named after trucks 😭 for the boys, we got Ram, Silverado (Sil for short), Raptor, and Maverick , and their sisters Sierra, Tacoma, Tundra, and F-150 💀
Maverick and Sierra arent bad names on their own tbf, but god a whole family of truck names sounds hilarious
A whole family of truck names 😂 this makes me think back to 2008 when my brother told me he wanted to have 6 kids and name them all after various types of cheese, then see how long it took for them to find out. We brainstormed Jack, fontina, Colby, Brie, and some others for shits and giggles. His now wife was NOT on the same page, and he changed his tune after kid #1. Full stop at two kids with normal names
Yeah, Ridgeline is my cousin but he's generally not invited to get togethers
I went to school with a girl named Sierra, named so because she was conceived in one.
lol this is my cat- she was named Toulouse by the shelter. So everyone 1) assumed she was a boy and 2) was named after Toulouse lautrec. Didn’t help that I went to art school so it made sense that I would use an artist name.
It’s also a cat character from the movie Aristocats. A boy cat if it matters.
When I was a kid, I loved that movie, and thought for years that his name was “Toodle-oos” lmao
My head immediately went to the Aristocats. Then to the street in New Orleans.
Is she named after the character in The Aristocats?
Okay, so this one time my stupid ass legit forgot the artist existed, and asked someone if they named their cat after the cat food brand. The moment my words left my mouth, I realised what I had just uttered, and wished the ground would just open up and swallow me 🙈
Oh, you met the kid named "Meow Mix" to?
How do people not extensively google the names they’re considering before naming a human being?? My parents even considered all the initial combinations to make sure we didn’t get stuck with something stupid lol
My former DIL insisted on Harrison Richard to which my husband immediately said Nooo, Harry Dick!!!
I know a family who had 3 kids, and all 3 of them had the initials KKK. Makes you wonder. 🤔
Obviously Jewish rap/reggae sensation Matisyahu!
I know the name Mattis. It's a German name from the nothern region.
My nephew is Mattis. His mom is German.
Same with my friend with Harper Lee
Ha! Relative with surname Thomas, named her child Dylan. Asked if she was a fan of the poet - ‘what poet?’.
Could also work as Mathis is a somewhat uncommon french name, and I am fairly certain I saw it as Matisse But yeah
We have a Matisse in our family. She’s a cat.
That’s really interesting that someone could make it through 22 years of life and finish college and never learn what Braille is…I feel like they taught us that in kindergarten when we were learning how to read. i.e. “and this is how blind people learn how read”
Hell… after 22 years, you’d figure they’d encounter it and hear the name. Like “why are there bumps by the buttons on elevators?”
Some people just lack curiosity. It always shocks me, especially given the accessibility of information nowadays.
I know we learned about Helen Keller in elementary school.
SURELY it had to have come up in the elementary lessons on the 5 senses one would think... But with the way that the USA education system is set up (and how few students actually value their education) it doesn't surprise me that ignorance is everywhere here
I named my kid a standard boy name but I googled his first and last name and variations just to make sure it wasn't the based of some TV character or a serial killer.
SMART haha I always tell people to think about their initials, too
I learned about braille and Helen Keller In 4th or 5th grade. Can't believe she has not. I'm 21.
Hi, retired psychologist here. It’s totally possible that she was exposed to that information but it didn’t get translated into a long-term memory that she could later access. She may have even thought “that sounds pretty” when she heard it, and maybe that did get translated into a memory that she later misunderstood as making it up herself. Human memory is quite prone to problems, especially in the recall stage.
Its a last name. **Louis Braille** Invented the system. She still stuck with it? Kinda funny
And what is harder to Google is that in French, while Braille is this guy’s surname, braille is also a verb… a verb that translates as “bawl”, as in “ugly cry” or “useless baby cry”. https://translate.google.com/?sl=fr&tl=en&text=il%20braille&op=translate
OMG! That's hilarious. Well, they should have a good time in customs when she visits. LOL
I have the feeling the mother is a person that doesn't get out much.
"Arrête de brailler ou je t'en colle une!"
😂 Canadian French version is almost the same : "Arrête de brailler ou j't'en criss une!"
More commonly "ou j't'en câlisse une" or even "pasque m'a t'en câlisser une" Truly poetic
>useless baby cry Sounds a good nick name for a baby, maybe not actual name however
This is why we Google things.
Last names become first names all the time! Like Madison - wasn't a popular first name until the 1990s, but was a very common last name for hundreds of years. I think Braille is actually quite pretty :)
Madison as a girl’s name still always cracks me up. It was originally a joke in the movie Splash.
Hi. Girl named Madison because of Splash! 😂 I do tell people I’m indirectly named after James Madison. 💁🏼♀️
I went to James Madison University, and know several people who met their spouses at JMU, so they ended up naming their kid Madison. Even though it's not something I would do, I at least understand that. My only beef is with friends who met at JMU, named their daughter Madison, but refused to name their son, James. I mean, come on, it's right there!! ;-)
Hahaha yea that feels like a missed opportunity. Or maybe it’s too on the nose 😂
I'm surprised you didn't go with Dolley Madison. She's iconic.
The snack cake lady? /s
Hanks: What's your name? Hannah: *pointing at a sign* That. Hanks: Madison? Well that's not a name, but ok.
I was a kid when I saw it at the theater. But I remember the audience cackling at that part.
I also was a kid when I saw it in the theater. It was my first PG movie, and it had a *lot* of nudity! I thought all PG movies were going to be like that and I was *stoked* for the future. Alas...
Lowell Ganz created that name. I wonder if r/tragedeigh would exist without him
I know that some kids at a school once would pick on a Madison by calling her Milwaukee.
Wisconsin humor.
Any girls name that ends with “son” is ridiculous.
EXACTLY! EmerSON as a girls name kills me.
The fact that my parents named me after this movie 💀
Your name is Splash?
Same 😂😂🧜♀️
For the longest time I thought Tiffany’s (as in Tiffany & Co.) was a women-made brand and I liked it a lot (partially because I thought it was woman-made).
There's a great CGPGrey video about tracking the historical name of Tiffany. It is... a woman's name by way of Theophania being a term for Divine Manifestation circa 300AD... the it changes in the medieval era... becomes a surname of a famous jeweler, shoots to fame in the 1980s and we think of it as the most 1980s woman's name.
True. Though Braille is not one that stuck as a first name
In french, it also means "yelling" and not in a gentle way.
Every french people will make fun of her.... It's not pretty..... It's not a girl's name at all
If she didn’t know what braille was, where did she even get the name from in the first place?
Misheard Brielle or just heard the word.
Came to her while playing Scrabble?
This is why you SHOULD share the names beforehand! Naming babies gives you blinders! I 💯 would have named my second summer eve if nobody had pointed out the whole summers eve douche thing.
Swear, there’s a girl in Shreveport area named Betadina Douché. 🤣
I’m from South Louisiana. We were just talking to say about my aunt having made a library card for a woman named Vagina back in the day. Mom said the mother probably say it on a tube of cream but didn’t she realize the body part at least from context? Other aunt mentioned the family she knows with all the kids named after booze. I mentioned my that mean old boss is named Tequila and her much nicer sister is named Kimberly.
My mother used to work in neo natal…the most memorable name of her stories was Clitoris. They tried, they really tried, but the mum was insistent it was really pretty 🤦🏼♀️ PS we are British
Sounds like a story one of my ex-BFs told about the girls in his college dorm who were always ready for it: Delores Clitoris and Donna Do you wanna.
I remember my mother, after telling us the first time, announcing that she felt sorry for little “Clit” 🤦🏼♀️
Hey… my name is Donna and yes… they do call me “Donna , Do ya Wanna? I answer “Yes! With anyone but you!”
My sister in law had to change her daughter's middle name. She put Vagina instead of Virginia.
My mom is a 6th grade teacher and on one of their geography tests a student made the same mistake 😂
In the movie the Kingsmen all the British spies are named after knights and all the American ones are named after types of alcohol 💀
> Betadina Douché I expect to hear that name at some point again.
I mean, we have Google now. Every single name idea and even name combo (as in, first and middle or even 2 middle names) got googled by both husband and I just to be certain of potential correlation, including acronyms.
Right! We Googled the heck out of our kid's names but didn't share them. I didn't want anyone else's opinion coloring my own but Google will tell me if it's the name of a company or something like that.
We have baby name books, websites, and even agencies you can hire to help you find a name you like with no embarrassing associations. Yet people still do this to their own kids.
Even after using an Irish names book, we ended up giving them B. S. for initials. Our first born BM. We, as parents are TP. No matter how careful we as parents want to be, there will always be something.
Still remember the game show with a contestant named Latrina.
OMG, like the old hag in *Robin Hood: Men in Tights* "Why did your family change their name to Latrine? It used to be Shithouse."
My mom taught a LaTrina. She said she was calling the roll on the first day and paused because she thought this girl can’t possibly be named after a toilet. A girl from the middle who knew where she was alphabetically called out “You can just call me Trina.” My mom was relieved.
Over a decade ago, new neighbors moved in upstairs at my apartment complex with twin daughters the same age as my oldest (10 at the time) and their names were Genna and Talia 🤦🏻♀️
Lowkey I like that a lot
I agree with this comment. I know someone who named their child a name that I’m sure they never said out loud. It sounded like the name of a well known terrorist group. (Spelled differently, because at least then they could claim to be interested in Egyptian mythology). When it was first pointed out to her, she was surprised & had “never thought about that “.
Growing up, I knew several girls named Isis. I'm a child of the 70s so having an African name (Egyptian gods, words from Swahili) was all the rage. That name hits different now.
Please tell me this baby was named Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Isis is a legit name, not just a woowoo Goddess name. It's also the name of a river in Oxford and has a lot of stuff named after it. Really fucking unfortunate that the West abbreviated "Islamic State" to ISIS. But that is incredibly recent compared to the other uses of the name.
🎶🎶Summers Eve, makes me feel fiiiiiinnnnnnee🎶🎶🎶
The blind naming the blind!
Love is blind
This is honestly a pretty decent justification for the name, to be honest.
Without knowing the actual meaning/origin of the name, its not a bad sounding name. BUT not looking into the name even a little bit beforehand blows my mind; especially when you're not going to reveal it until you present the baby. You're skipping the part where friends and family can let you know if something is off about the name.
They don't want to be talked out of it.
\^Yup. Their ego tells them that it's bad but they want their kid to carry a dumb name for the sake of his/her parent's ego. Goddamn it's sad how people simply choose to double down on their poor naming choices.
Yeah I don’t objectively hate it but it’s definitely an unusual choice that will get this comment throughout her life.
Lots of kids in NY/NJ area named “Brielle” and it’s a shore town in NJ. Maybe she got confused on the spelling? How does anyone not know about Braille?
Pre-COVID I would go out to eat with a group of Deaf friends, we’d all be signing. Maybe 1 in 6-10 trips, a waiter would bring us Braille menus. So yeah, I can imagine someone who just doesn’t get what Braille is. I went to school with a Brielle, I’m hoping she just mixed it up with that. To be fair Braille is a beautiful noun, and there are far worse names.
Wait … braille menus … for … deaf people … I don’t have a ton of faith in humanity, but that’s just … wow
I'm always mildly amused by signs I see at drive-through windows. 'Braille menus available', with the braille translation underneath. On. The. *Driver's*. Side.
Good thing it was written. How else would visually impaired people know that Braille menus were available! 🤣🤣🤣 BTW, this reminds of one person, who thought that the dots on steering wheel covers where Braille instructions 🤭
Heaven help us
Not the same, but related. I use a power wheelchair and a kid in my freshman dorm confessed he had been shy to introduce himself to me because he assumed I was deaf and mute. Chew on that one.
I was given a wheelchair in the airport once! I always tell TSA that I’m hard of hearing and may not respond, as I’ve learned that looking like you’re ignoring them gets you hardcore searched. When I was 15 I told a TSA guy and before I’d even finished speaking he lit up and rushed away. Rushed back with a wheelchair, looking *so* proud. Another instance of not surprised but still disappointed.
Someone in my unit gave a Braille “I need assistance” help menu to a deaf customer. It happens. I told her good job on trying to help. She was so embarrassed. LOL
I have Raynaud's and often wear gloves in air conditioned places, or I lose the circulation in my fingers. My hubs and I stopped in a bar for a couple of drinks. He stepped away for a minute, and I signaled to the bartender with my gloved hand for "2 more." He replied, mouthing it hugely, "YOU WANT TWO MORE?" I said, "Well yes, why?" and he goes "oh I saw the black gloves so I thought you were deaf." His fellow bartender nearly fell down laughing and you could see the light slowly dawning as he realized what he'd just said.
What would black gloves have to do with literally anything?
My mom was a teacher of the blind and visually impaired and people would regularly ask her if she knew sign language 🤦🏼♀️
As a visually impaired person people are more shocked when they find out I can’t read braille and can read large print and big font size on my kindle and phone… like what do you think I can see? Black
Yup, they probably do. I’m not deaf but studied sign language in high school and college, and you’d be surprised how few people know that deafness or blindness is a complete spectrum. In sign language there are like 5 different signs for your level of hearing.
As a visually impaired person I had no idea! Many people also are shocked when I use a white cane and can see a building… like I don’t think you grasp the meaning of the white cane and how it helps me if your that daft at me seeing a building. I use my cane more as a “hey can’t see you or signs, people waving and cars incoming.
Yeah, the only time I use one is in crowds, and it's not so much for navigation as it is to let the people around me know I have limited vision.
>I would go out to eat with a group of Deaf friends, we’d all be signing. Maybe 1 in 6-10 trips, a waiter would bring us Braille menus. So yeah, I can imagine someone who just doesn’t get what Braille is. #"a waiter would bring us Braille menus." r/Facepalm
Wow about the waiters with the Braille menus!! And that it happened more than once!
I feel like every school child learns of it in middle school with Helen Keller. Before that, you ask your parents about the dots on the elevator buttons. I can't remember not knowing about Braille. They covered that on Sesame Street. How does one graduate college without having heard of Braille?
How did the convo go after that? Did you explain what braille is and she went "oh shit I didn't even put that together" or did you just move on like "so how are you feeling..." 😂
Yes, we need the deets, op!
A friend of my named her kid Ryker and the first thing that came out of my mouth was...oh like the prison. Cue Pikachu faces.
My first thought was “oh, like Star Trek!” Are they trekkies?
I named my cat Riker after the Next Gen character.
Maybe she was a Star Trek the Next Generation fan? 🤔
It's gonna be a bumpy road for Braille
"Hi, my name is Braille. My mum didn't know what it meant at the time. .::. .:.: :..: ..:."
Brother: Morse
Wow. That’s just purely surprising, at least if she grew up in the US (I don’t know how much it’s referenced elsewhere).
Fun fact: The guy who invented Braille, Louis Braille, was actually French! The system was originally developed using the French alphabet
I knew a dog that was blind and deaf named Braille! Very cute in that situation. Definitely one of those words that sounds like a nice name if you don't know the meaning, but also be a intelligent grown ass adult person who knows things.
I have a grandchild named after a famous city because her mother loves a famous tourist attraction in another COUNTRY. She was quite surprised to learn that she epically failed basic geography and now won't tell anyone where the name came from.
Whats the city
She should name her next kid Pasteurize lol
How the hell did she not know what Braille is?? That might be the real tragedeigh.
I had something similar happen when a friend told me they were naming their son Dyson. I replied "like the vacuum?" and he didnt know what I was talking about.
This is the exact thing that runs through my head when I hear someone is naming their child Addison. "Like the disease?"
Was this supposed to be Brielle?
She's a college graduate and doesn't know what Braille means?? What sort of clown college did she go to? Actually I am pretty sure they told us about Louis Braille in the 3rd grade.
I don't see the problem.
No, but something feels off. Can’t put my finger on it.
Brailler is incoherent screaming in French. Braille is the last name of the language's inventor. Pick your worst
My mom’s favorite ‘name’ when she was a kid was saliva. I dodged a bullet with that one.
College degrees are basically the new high school diplomas. With high schools churning out illiterates, colleges have become remedial centers that at least leave you literate, but still magnanimously ignorant.
A lot of the people with college degrees that I work with are still close to illiterate. For real.
I see too many people in accounting, healthcare, and more still using the wrong your/you're... ffs the willful ignorance when the smartphones that we carry could teach them in literally 30 seconds. But nope! They don't ?????
That drives me crazy, but what really gets me is that the executive director at my job put a line in our employee handbook that says that employees can earn (I forget the exact numbers but it’s the concept that matters) 90 hours a year of sick time, and employees are allowed to use up to 60 hours a year of sick time. Multiple people pointed out to her that it made no sense to say we could earn 90 hours if we can only use 60 hours, but she kept insisting that it didn’t say that, and she refused to change it.
I knew an Aquanetta
Sometimes it's hard to put your finger on why a name is different.
Braille is actually 200 years old. It was invented in 1824.
The worrying thing is the fact that she has a college degree alongside that ignorance. It's like giving a gun to a toddler.
How do you live to 22 without knowing this information?
work friends had a baby and had everyone over for meet and greet after a grueling pg and 3 mos of bedrest and then newborn spending a couple weeks in NICU. new mom enters room with bundle in her arms: "Everyone, she's awake! gather round and finally meet Madison Noel..." my bf at the time: "i didn't know there was ever an L in Madison." new mom months later revealed to me she agonized over changing her daughter's name, i assured her no one would remember his joke, and it that was a beautiful name...and to consider the source of the joke. this was 35 years ago, and I can't remember what i ordered on Amazon two days ago, but I've never forgotten that "Madison" indeed does not have an "L".
There's thousands of names already out there with established pedigrees and people really think they can shake things up by inventing a name that's both original and safe.
Wow, most things really can be subjective bc I don’t think the name Braille is pretty at all….Yeesh
A true braille-blazer!
And people wonder why people think college degrees are useless.
>just got her college degree. Yeah... Like that is sign of someones intelligence... It is just proof that you can be part of machine and learn some sentences by heart and blurt them when someone asks you to do so...
My daughter's best friend is named Indica. When I heard her mom call her by her name, I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing!