Please note: All names in this following piece have been mildly fictionalised in order to not break any Data protection laws at the place I work. Also out of common decency, because I'm about to offer some juvenile sniggering about them...
I think we'd all agree that there are few crimes as unthinkable as matricide or patricide. Not only is it murder, it's also staggeringly ungrateful and show's that worse than being a mere psychotic, you're also incredibly rude. There are however exceptions to this, the Fritzel's would probably have been applauded, or perhaps that kid who was put on Wogan as a Hooky Antique expert who then lost the plot a bit... but none more than those poor sods who have been given an utterly ridiculous name...
Now I have an unusual name. I really don't mind it, and due to nomenclative determinism it has led me to be an unusual person, at least I hope it's that... I can't really imagine that my parents were sat around looking at my pudgy face and goggling eyes and thought 'Oooh he looks a but of a rum 'un... better make sure the branding matches the style'. But at least my name is a name. Well, my first name is a name... a Surname perhaps, but a name and my second is a barnyard fowl, but family name's are really nobody's fault except history. What I'm saying is, I don't judge people for having odd names.. I can sympathise.
Nowadays I work with huge lists of prospective employees for Healthcare providers and therefore I get to see a whole lot of names. There are a surprising amount of girls named 'Precious', 'Princess' or 'Queen'.. I even had a 'Beautiful' yesterday. Sadly these names sometimes seem to have been attached based on the emotion of having a child you love, rather than with any descriptive intent.. it would have been like me being called 'Butch' or 'Rambo'.. at worst it can seem sarcastic...
This is all understandable though. Everyone's child is beautiful to themselves, and so your biased eyes will see the reality behind the fiction of the name. It is more unusual when seeming to imply other talents like the honest to goodness (But still slightly fictionalised) Lyrical Jones. Yes. That is a name. That is a name given to a child for whom the parents had a dream of one day being a rapper, but that dream became the less moniker specific, but more socially useful placement as a health visitor.
The fact that I deal mainly with health leads to some particularly interesting combinations.
A Student specialising in Geriatric care called Marcus Death.
A Trauma Ward specialist called Annette Raper.
But my favourite at the moment... and the perfect argument for nomenclature Determinism is a lady called Isabelle Nurse.
Yes a Nurse 'Nurse'
Now if I was to make up* that name in a book I'd be roundly mocked, but the universe seems to do this all the time...
(*of course I did slightly make it up... Blah blah blee blah law and decency)
It is these kinds of things that get me through the day while I steer a massive and leaky IT project through a gauntlet of Icebergs and dodgy metaphors...
I think we'd all agree that there are few crimes as unthinkable as matricide or patricide. Not only is it murder, it's also staggeringly ungrateful and show's that worse than being a mere psychotic, you're also incredibly rude. There are however exceptions to this, the Fritzel's would probably have been applauded, or perhaps that kid who was put on Wogan as a Hooky Antique expert who then lost the plot a bit... but none more than those poor sods who have been given an utterly ridiculous name...
Now I have an unusual name. I really don't mind it, and due to nomenclative determinism it has led me to be an unusual person, at least I hope it's that... I can't really imagine that my parents were sat around looking at my pudgy face and goggling eyes and thought 'Oooh he looks a but of a rum 'un... better make sure the branding matches the style'. But at least my name is a name. Well, my first name is a name... a Surname perhaps, but a name and my second is a barnyard fowl, but family name's are really nobody's fault except history. What I'm saying is, I don't judge people for having odd names.. I can sympathise.
Nowadays I work with huge lists of prospective employees for Healthcare providers and therefore I get to see a whole lot of names. There are a surprising amount of girls named 'Precious', 'Princess' or 'Queen'.. I even had a 'Beautiful' yesterday. Sadly these names sometimes seem to have been attached based on the emotion of having a child you love, rather than with any descriptive intent.. it would have been like me being called 'Butch' or 'Rambo'.. at worst it can seem sarcastic...
This is all understandable though. Everyone's child is beautiful to themselves, and so your biased eyes will see the reality behind the fiction of the name. It is more unusual when seeming to imply other talents like the honest to goodness (But still slightly fictionalised) Lyrical Jones. Yes. That is a name. That is a name given to a child for whom the parents had a dream of one day being a rapper, but that dream became the less moniker specific, but more socially useful placement as a health visitor.
The fact that I deal mainly with health leads to some particularly interesting combinations.
A Student specialising in Geriatric care called Marcus Death.
A Trauma Ward specialist called Annette Raper.
But my favourite at the moment... and the perfect argument for nomenclature Determinism is a lady called Isabelle Nurse.
Yes a Nurse 'Nurse'
Now if I was to make up* that name in a book I'd be roundly mocked, but the universe seems to do this all the time...
(*of course I did slightly make it up... Blah blah blee blah law and decency)
It is these kinds of things that get me through the day while I steer a massive and leaky IT project through a gauntlet of Icebergs and dodgy metaphors...
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