Has it honestly been three months since I wrote? I really think there's something wrong with my Blog account, because I'm positive it hasn't been three months. I guess all those posts I wrote in my head didn't type themselves.
Well, I honestly don't have much to say tonight. Just hello, how are you, how's life in cyberspace? How are all you 26 little letters that make up my blog (but let's not forget the em-dashes and the en-dashes)?
That reminds me of something a friend told me the other day. Her friend just had a baby and honestly named her Abcde, pronounced Abseduh. Ummm....really? First of all, not sure how you get that sort of pronunciation from those three sequential consenants. Second of all, don't they know that once that child gets to school, the teacher will take one look at the roll (because that name will probably and alphabetically be the first one listed...unless you have an Aaron...or Aaliyah, or Aandy in your class...this parenthetical tangeant is way too long), give a very long pause, and probably a very loud gaffaw, and then give up (you may have to go back to see the beginning of that sentence. Sorry. Didn't plan that one out.).
The other name I've see recently is this one-- "La-a." You'd think it's pronounced "La'ah," right? Oh no. It's "Ladasha." Really? That child will be "La'ah" for her whole life. Here's the other problem. In most situations it's probably written with a hyphen insead of an en-dash or em-dash (two of my favorite grammatical tools) because that's all most poeple use. So really, her name is "Lahyphena."
"Lahyphena!"
Say that three times fast. It will make your day.
Holy cow, what is wrong with those parents? Don't they realize the ridicule they're setting their kids up for? Those are names you save for your pets, not your kids (if you use them at all).
ReplyDeleteAll I can do is moan over those.
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