LM AND STPD

[patgund]

More parents using txt language to make their child's name gr8

"Abbreviated versions of traditional Christian names are appearing on birth certificates along with "original" ways of spelling which even include punctuation marks.

Anne has been changed to An, Connor to Conna and Laura to Lora.

There were reportedly six boys who were named Cam'ron instead of Cameron, and according to the online parenting club Bounty, one girl born last month was born Flicity.

And basic changes to spelling have led to numerous Samiuls (Samuel) and reports of 23 different versions of Isabelle or Isabella, ranging from Izzabella to Yzabel."

OMGWTFBBQ!! HW CN PRNTS BE THS STPD????

Comments

[beki.livejournal.com]

These are the same parents who don't discipline their children and then wonder why their little angels are calling them from jail at 3am... Or the poor kid ends up in therapy due to all the teasing they get from their counterparts. Sometimes I think parents should have to get a license before having kids. This is sad because I am a parent...

[cormac.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's time to go back to the practice of having the clergy name kids.

[the-celestia.livejournal.com]

I agree with you in principle, but must point out that Lora is a perfectly legitmate name...I've a great-aunt Lora in her 80's.

[tepintzin.livejournal.com]

I have a sister-in-law named Lora who's 39.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

How about my friend and hairdresser, Lora [Trimble] Boehm, age 40-ish? That one's a bad example.

The others, well, American parents are just weird. If it's any comfort, South American parents are worse. Brazilian, and my friend Maria also adds Argentina. They have had to make laws about names having to be actual names... sigh.

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

Yeah; I used to get all sorts of razzing in grammar school because my folks spelled my name the newfangled "James", rather than the traditional "Séamus". (To hear my grandmother say it, they're pronounced the same way) It seems that those new type-writer things couldn't do diacriticals the way handwritten script can.

[lapiskelinia.livejournal.com]

So.... I once met this chick named Ka5ey with a silent 5.

...Pronounced Kasey. Her mother was apparently really high when she signed the certificate.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Honey, that ain't nothing. You would not believe some of the "creative" spellings I see when I pull up a patient's Medicaid file.

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

My personal favorite, courtesy of a pastor friend, "No-lej"

Susan asked where the mother got the name, and the mother said that "it's how the dictionary spells 'knowledge'."

My soul hasn't stopped hurting since...

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

My mother has a friend who named her son "Du Jour" because she thinks it means "special". I didn't think it was a good idea to explain to her what it actually means. I have a friend who tells a story about a mother who named her daughter "Female" promised more-or-less Feh-moll-lee. Some countries have rules about names having to be acceptable. I used to think that was nasty, but I've changed my mind in recent years.