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THE ANCIENT NAMES
A poster on a throwaway account weighs a pregnant friend's self-made, language-inspired baby names, wondering whether their phonetic flair crosses from thoughtful to over the top.
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A pregnant friend's baby-name list sent one poster straight to a throwaway account, worried the choices were so unusual they might be too much.
The poster began by making one thing clear: "I created a throwaway to camouflage my identity." The reason was simple enough. A friend had recently found out she was pregnant, and the baby-name brainstorming had already started taking a very specific turn.
According to the poster, this friend has long been fascinated by antique languages, "greek,latim etc", and wanted that interest to show up in the names she was inventing for the child she expects. But these weren't standard family names or anything pulled from a common list. She was building them herself, working phonetics and spelling into the options as she went.
That was the part that caught the poster's attention. The names were not presented as final choices so much as possible inventions, shaped around how they sounded and how they were written. The friend's love of old languages was doing a lot of the work here, and the poster clearly thought the results might be pushing the line between creative and over-the-top.
So the question that remained was the one the poster put plainly at the end: "Would these names be considered exaggerated?"
That was the whole dilemma. A pregnant friend. A taste for ancient languages. A homemade set of baby names designed with phonetics and spelling in mind. And a poster using a throwaway account, trying to figure out whether the list had crossed from thoughtful into too much.