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Please tell my sister this is a horrible idea

213 replies

Siilka · 17/09/2022 12:43

So, my sister told us last night her names ideas, and she was asking which we prefer. They decided that her husband and her would mix their names to create a new name.

So if it is a girl

Jamifer or Jeniams

A boy :

Jems
Jamer

We all told us it was horrible. But she insist on saying "stranger will find that cute". What do you think

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Siilka · 17/09/2022 19:00

I thank you for your opinions. I showed her the thread, but she got mad "But immigrants give their children names that are not known or hard to pronounce so should they all be forced to give their kids British names". She got upset, and I should have stayed out of it.

She is not having a laugh, she was serious. I think they all bad, but I'll leave her to it.

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IchbineinBerlinerin · 17/09/2022 18:37

Oh dear god I hope your sister is winding you all up 🙈

Ellie56 · 17/09/2022 16:32

If this is for real it's a terrible idea. Both "names" are awful.

It's at times like these that I think it would be much better if parents could only use names from an approved list like they used to do in France.

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 16:14

Jammifier goddamn you stupid telephone.

Pronounced Jamifeear

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 16:11

Have we had Jammifer yet? I’ve been distracted by the banana song.

SudocremOnEverything · 17/09/2022 16:08

Innejam surely must be the answer here.

in a jam.

or Refinnejam. Ref in a jam.

so attractive.

Willbe2under2 · 17/09/2022 15:56

A while ago, someone suggested to an OP that they spend a week introducing themselves as the name they were considering for their baby and see whether they still thought it was a good idea.

Perhaps, instead of giving your sister your honest opinion you could suggest she does this instead.... and she how she feels using that name.

EfficientDynamics · 17/09/2022 15:54

All of them are horrible

oakleaffy · 17/09/2022 15:52

LubaLuca · 17/09/2022 15:42

I used to work with a man from Hull who was called Jamie, but it sounded like Jamer when he said it. I think it's BRILLIANT - definitely encourage your sister to go for that for a boy or girl. Jamer 😄

Yes!
Said with a regional accentJamie could so easily sound like “ Jamer”!

oakleaffy · 17/09/2022 15:50

Jammy Fur ?😂

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 15:45

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/09/2022 15:38

I just googled cake rap. Thanks. I hate it. 😀

Glad we're back to agreeing again, now Grin Grin Grin

😃

LubaLuca · 17/09/2022 15:42

I used to work with a man from Hull who was called Jamie, but it sounded like Jamer when he said it. I think it's BRILLIANT - definitely encourage your sister to go for that for a boy or girl. Jamer 😄

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/09/2022 15:38

I just googled cake rap. Thanks. I hate it. 😀

Glad we're back to agreeing again, now Grin Grin Grin

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/09/2022 15:37

Hilarious, but none of your business.

I'm not sure I agree that isn't any business of close family members, albeit they don't get the final say, which belongs to the parents.

If they go ahead with this, the baby is going to go through life with a horrendous name that will cause confusion (in people trying to spell/pronounce/remember it) and likely a lot of ridicule. Even if it somehow doesn't cause confusion or bullying, it's still a very clear way or marking out a child's identity - with a name for their whole life - as being a product of their parents and not an entirely new individual.

Everybody you ever meet, however good-naturedly (or not), will greet you with "I think I can guess what your parents are called!" and likely want to expand on it at length, which will become tedious to the point of tears. If you've ever seen Family Fortunes, when Les Dennis hosted it, contestants with amusing or strange names (for some reason, I seem to remember there was one man called Dick Long) have to laugh along, as though they'd never heard all the obvious and irritating jokes or comments before in their lives.

It's still an unnecessary barrier in communications, where people with normal names will just be met with a cursory "Hi Sally, nice to meet you" and then get on with discussing the interesting stuff.

jackstini · 17/09/2022 15:34

I'm a stranger
I don't find it cute!
Just awful - there are so many lovely names; please tell them not to inflict that on their child

Butchyrestingface · 17/09/2022 15:30

Squirrelly1 · 17/09/2022 15:24

Hilarious, but none of your business.

She's the one who's going to have to try to wrap her tongue round that monstrosity of sounds though.

At least Siobhan (pronounced Shaw-bin) isn't on the list though. Don't tell your sister I said that, OP. Don't want to give her ideas.

ShowTime80 · 17/09/2022 15:27

Are you going to show her this thread? BiscuitBiscuit

YesitsBess · 17/09/2022 15:27

I just googled cake rap. Thanks. I hate it. 😀

NippyWoowoo · 17/09/2022 15:24

Thank god it's not Lucius and Jennifer having a baby

Squirrelly1 · 17/09/2022 15:24

Hilarious, but none of your business.

Butchyrestingface · 17/09/2022 15:21

Let's hope the baby is non-binary.

Johnnysgirl · 17/09/2022 15:17

BitOutOfPractice · 17/09/2022 14:41

My ex’s niece and her husband did this but in their case they ended up with Demi. Which is fine. Jamifer is not.

Demi really isn't fine. It means a lesser/inferior version of something, not just smaller. The kid won't always be smaller anyway...

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/09/2022 15:17

@YesitsBess Fair enough, no beef!!

They're both deliberately designed to be catchy - whether they catch you on the 'right' or 'wrong' side!

Like that Alexa 'Cake Rap' that annoys me intently, yet I keep listening to it on YouTube (don't actually have an Alexa) in order to be annoyed!! Grin

mathanxiety · 17/09/2022 15:12

Wow!

Truly terrible ideas.

Gobsmackingly godawful.

FlipFlopBattle · 17/09/2022 15:10

A friend did exactly this for her first child, and I found it reeeally hard to look enthusiastic about the name when she first told me.

We've actually lost contact over the years (for reasons completely unrelated to her choice of names...😄), but I'd heard she subsequently had three more children, so just did a quick internet stalk in anticipation of more craziness. They all have very traditional, Biblical names!

If you want to draw a moral from that for your sister, I'm guessing they realised fairly quickly that they hadn't done the eldest any favours...