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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any input!
http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0 |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
"JohnZhang" wrote in message ups.com... What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any input! http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0 Nick, Steve, Bob? They're all nicknames of proper names. |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
JohnZhang wrote in
ups.com: What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any input! http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0 did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as your given name. in any case, none of those names would be a blip on my boy name radar. i especially dislike Steven, having grown up with a sociopathic neighbor with that name. lee |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
enigma wrote:
JohnZhang wrote in ups.com: What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any input! http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0 did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as your given name. in any case, none of those names would be a blip on my boy name radar. i especially dislike Steven, having grown up with a sociopathic neighbor with that name. lee It is also unkind to spam. That is what the OP is doing. He doesn't care about popular names. He cares about getting money. Jeff |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
Jeff wrote in
news:GuS9i.9633$fX4.2944@trndny03: It is also unkind to spam. That is what the OP is doing. He doesn't care about popular names. He cares about getting money. unless he's the owner of pollspace, which i sincerely doubt, he's not getting any money for people looking at or clicking on his poll. therefore, it is not spamming. i don't like spam any more than you do (& probably less, since i was a sys admin at an ISP), but you really need to get a grip sometimes Jeff why don't you get a real newsreader, with real filters, & save yourself some aggrivation? lee |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:01:57 +0000 (UTC), enigma wrote:
JohnZhang wrote in ups.com: What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any input! http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0 did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as your given name. Maybe the guy doesn't know English and those names sound fine in his language? |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
In article , enigma says...
Jeff wrote in news:GuS9i.9633$fX4.2944@trndny03: It is also unkind to spam. That is what the OP is doing. He doesn't care about popular names. He cares about getting money. unless he's the owner of pollspace, which i sincerely doubt, he's not getting any money for people looking at or clicking on his poll. therefore, it is not spamming. i don't like spam any more than you do (& probably less, since i was a sys admin at an ISP), but you really need to get a grip sometimes Jeff why don't you get a real newsreader, with real filters, & save yourself some aggrivation? lee You know what? I think filters and killfiles are all well and good and use them some. But that doesn't mean that these kinds of things aren't part of a creeping crud that has been crapping up Usenet in general, and contributing to its overall decline. I mean, why *should* we all have to chase these ever-shifting nyms and topics in killfiles??!? It's a drag. As in a waste. Of time and energy and attention and bandwidth. It's a putoff for a lot of users. I'm glad for Jeff's netcopping. Even if this wasn't exactly spam or commercial stuff. Banty |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
In article , toypup says...
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:01:57 +0000 (UTC), enigma wrote: JohnZhang wrote in ups.com: What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any input! http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0 did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as your given name. Maybe the guy doesn't know English and those names sound fine in his language? And if we proposed Sasha or Dima for a boy child, and a Russian speaker object that those are diminuitives for real names, would you accept as a defense "oh well, we don't know Russian and those names sound fine in our language"? It's a perfectly valid objection. Banty |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
Banty wrote:
You know what? I think filters and killfiles are all well and good and use them some. But that doesn't mean that these kinds of things aren't part of a creeping crud that has been crapping up Usenet in general, and contributing to its overall decline. To be quite honest I think there's a lot less spaming now than when I was reading in 2000. (hey, there's hardly any c*r* spam in m.k.p!) I think the overall decline has a lot to do with "uneducated" internet users. I think back in 2000 most users had some sort of university/college background, at least I'm sure that was the case in germany. And I think it's still laregly the case. I have a friend who's been online almost as long as I have (1996/97) and she doesn't even know about usenet, she uses Forums all the way. Forums are a lot more acessible than usenet, they're easy usually to navigate, there's moderators/administrators you can turn to in case something turns nasty, or they'll step in themselves as it happens. Usenet is different, we do our own "moderating", sometimes a thread gets out of hand, but so what? I know how to kill a thread in my newsreader, I don't have to read spam if I don't want to. And personally I think the information I get here is usually better than what I would get in a Forum. just my 2 (euro)cents ;-) nicole |
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Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
On 7 Jun 2007 07:53:36 -0700, Banty wrote:
In article , toypup says... On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:01:57 +0000 (UTC), enigma wrote: JohnZhang wrote in ups.com: What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any input! http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0 did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as your given name. Maybe the guy doesn't know English and those names sound fine in his language? And if we proposed Sasha or Dima for a boy child, and a Russian speaker object that those are diminuitives for real names, would you accept as a defense "oh well, we don't know Russian and those names sound fine in our language"? It's a perfectly valid objection. Banty Yes, in their own country. In our country, the child would not feel saddled with a diminuitive, because the majority of the people would not know it is a diminuitive. SIL has a foreign name which sounds fine here. When she went to the country from which it origniates, the natives were puzzled, because it would not be something anyone there would want to name their own child. IL's found it amusing, because they were trying to give her a name related to her roots. SIL has never felt saddled with that name, neither as an adult nor as a child. |
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