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spiders
@spiders

i think its kinda a shame that so many "traditional" english names are just largely contextless (to english speakers, anyways) assemblages of sound. at least until you trace it etymologically, and its just, Some Guy/Girl In The Bible. but if you trace it far enough, it usually once was a name with meaning, many thousands of years ago, in a language that isn't english.

this is why i think the tendancy of some trans ppl to give themselves names which are immediately meaningful is nice and good. i think its nice when names have clear and obvious meanings like "rose" or "rain" or "willow" or "spider" or "crow" or "jay" or "wren" or "river".


spiders
@spiders

and like the thing is that to a intensely christianized populace with alot of awareness of christian mythology probably those contextless names like "john" or "michael" or "elizabeth" or whatever probably ALSO STILL carried some kind of clear linguistic meaning. you would hear someone be named "Maria" or "Rachel" and at least go "oh its just like blorbo from my religious texts" but over time those names don't even have that anymore and now they're just mostly-arbitrary jumbles of sound, maybe passed down in some families but i would not describe getting named after a grandparent or parent to even be a particularly common thing in american culture, for the most part i think parents just pick Normal Names based on how nice they sound (which is fine, to be clear, to pick names based on phonaesthetics alone- thats what WE often do. i just think i kinda get sad that the "normal" names in this society are largely divorced of meaning, especially for boys, (whereas it seems like alot more girl-coded names tend to be at least somewhat meaningful))



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