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