Alternatively, should children be allowed to change their names to one in a restricted list anytime before 18, then to anything after 18?

  • @CameronDev@programming.dev
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    126 days ago

    That isn’t really that unusual, King and Queen are both used as names, so its not that weird. Steven King, Queen Latifah (stage name, but still), King C Gillete (inventor of the safety razor)

    • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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      Last names and stage names are entirely different species of names. I maintain (based on no evidence and personal belief only) that most of the people burdening their daughters with this name don’t know it’s a title.

      Edit: wait, I tell a lie, my evidence is that SO MANY people called Daenerys “Khaleesi” as her name. “Khaleesi did this, Khaleesi did that, my favourite character is Khaleesi, Khaleesi is Jon’s aunt.”

      • @CameronDev@programming.dev
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        They probably dont know that its a title, but it doesn’t really matter. The character is colloquially known as Khaleesi, and thats what they are naming their kid after.

        I don’t think its a good name either, given the TV series has largely fizzled, so its connection won’t make sense in a few years time, but being a title first doesn’t exclude it by itself (IMHO).

      • Clay_pidgin
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        26 days ago

        wait, I tell a lie

        You sound like a character in a Shakespeare play! I love it.

        • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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          Forsooth, Brudi, sein oder nicht sein, das geht steil, you egg.

          Edit: I am inconsolable, I just came from this thread and my brain hasn’t recovered from the throwback so it produced this nonsense. le epic lulz.