Nomina

[porphyry]

[Poll #1605142]

Comments

[majolika.livejournal.com]

EVERYTHING BUT FELIX OMG!

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Rest assured, I will win in the end. He always gives in to me.

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

I share majolika's distaste for Felix. Just consider how hellishly a first name ending in -x would jarr with the first two letters of your surname.

Oh, and congratulations!

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Felix won't happen. I kind of have to admire the way Malkhos puts up such a battle knowing in the end what the result will be (loss, for him :).

[majolika.livejournal.com]

Who has voted for Felix? Go away, terrible voter from hell!

[gold-tree.livejournal.com]

I didn't. :D

[vonjunzt.livejournal.com]

I almost picked Assurbanipal but, despite the fact that he basically drove the Empire into the ground due to his bizarre religious predilictions, I still prefer the Neo-Babylonian Nabonidus to the Neo-Assyrian.

Of course, why Zoroaster didn't make the list, I'll never know.

Incidentally, I already know a man who named his son Gilgamesh. He's also coauthor of The Bible for Dummies.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Nabondius is one of my favorites also, though I don;t care for the sound of the name.

[filialucis]

Please, please tell me you aren't actually serious... :P

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

He is serious. He would do this. He just doesn't understand my idea that boys should have simple, preferably Biblical, names, one that he can easily carry all his life.

As wonderful a father as he is (and he is--apart from his past inappropriate delivery room comments like, "Ew, he's all bloody and slimy" which I can forgive--he's one of the most hands-on, helpful fathers I've ever seen), he really must take some perverse pleasure in torturing me over this name thing.

[filialucis]

Weird that he'd go as far as giving the child as Catholic-sounding a name as "Carl Philip Maria", though, given his well-known views on Christianity.

Incidentally, CPM would attract precisely no attention whatsoever in these parts. I suggest you agree to that name on condition that you relocate to Germany or Austria. That'd larn him. :)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

It so very Baroque. And do you think I would take sides with the Protestants?

[filialucis]

Friend, there's no telling what you'd do. You're already unequivocally on the side of Error. :P

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Well, that what's interesting about him--he finds Catholicism, because it's so steeped in tradition, to be the most intellectual and philosophically grounded faiths of the Western tradition.

I do believe that he would agree to (forgive me if I misspell this; I don't know Latin) Johannes Paulus, but not John Paul. :)

[filialucis]

*grin*. I believe that would be Ioannes Paulus, though JPII himself seems to have preferred "Joannes".

Hmm. If he has no intrinsic objection to the names of Popes, I suggest you insist on Benedict. :D

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Assurbanipal is a joke, but I see nothing wrong with the others. Surely there are lots of Austrians called Carl Philipp?

[filialucis]

Mithridates was not a joke? Now I'm officially worried.

As for CPM, See my reply to Mme. M upthread. I see nothing wrong with Carl Philipp, nor even Carl Philipp Maria, but the latter might sound seriously weird in America, and I have to wonder about a man with such an evident distaste for Christianity in general to consider so ostentatiously Catholic a name for a son of his.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

What a strange thing to think. I have no evident distaste for Christianity. I just don't think its true.

[filialucis]

"...we wouldn't want a fine religion like Mithraism degraded [...] by entanglement with Christianity." -- malkhos in a comment in my LJ from, er, way back when.

I realise there was wordplay involved there, but I still didn't think anyone without a definite distaste for the religion in question would have made that comment. I would be pleased to know that I was wrong about that.

I'm still officially worried about the Mithridates thing, though. :)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm afraid to say anything around you. You don't recognize a Joke even as plain as that.

[filialucis]

I am clearly not very well equipped to cope with text-only communications, as I'm now sitting here wondering whether "that" refers in the above to Mithraism or Mithridates.

*throws up hands in despair* I believe I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt on all fronts and go tank up on caffeine to kick-start my brain.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

That='not realizing that an atheist privileging Paganism over Christianity is a joke meant to tease Christians and potentiality getting all huffy and insulted.' I just don't want you come along fill in the Mithraeum in my basement with garbage as the Christians were wont to do.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Don't take half of what he says seriously. I don't. He actually has a healthy respect for Catholicism even if he doesn't practice it.

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

I've got a soft spot for Carl Philipp because of Karl Philipp Moritz, author of Anton Reiser, a book that in these parts usually gets compared to Rousseau's Confessions, but seems closer to Goethe's Wilhelm Meister (Lehrjahre) and Jean Paul's Titan. (And therefore I like it much better. I gave up on Rousseau at a point.)

[clodia-metelli.livejournal.com]

So... is this my hypothetical offspring or someone else's? Because if mine, I would totally be voting for Drusus or Mithridates (Assurbanipal is rather outside my usual sphere of operation), but somehow I feel I should be more responsible with other people's.

On the other hand, have you considered Globulus? Or Hildebrand?

[med_cat]

None of the above! And certainly not "Shaloski" :P

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Being innocent when it comes to the "Felix" lapse above I hereby admit Assurbanipal having been not entirely serious a suggestion. Here in Bordeaux I know both a Washington (from Brazil) and a much more common but in french pronounciation lovely (I find) Davide.
I think, having gotten a more than old-fashioned (not even popular in the middle ages and no, I won´t admit what it is, though one or the other reader might already know) first name by my parents (got myself another one; lent from my nickname at age 16), I am all on your line and for a practical, child-friendly first variety and then; do have a ball with Zoroaster and/or Mithridates as second name, how about that to restore peace at home?

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Ex has seven first names all causing comments of anything from spite to amusement at borders where passports are shown and one of them is Nepomuk.

[lapidus-93.livejournal.com]

Felix is happy...

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

felicissimus cui felicitate non opus est (Seneca, Ad Lucilium 90,32): happiest he who can do without happiness.

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

I suspect Felix is only doing so well because of the alternatives. I would be curious to see what the survey would look like with some more traditional names on them...like Daniel, or Anthony. ;)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

They're all freakish, you're right, only that one less so.

Just put your money on me. ;)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I wonder why you didn't include Napoleon in your poll?