What an awful name!!

[cilitbang]

I've just received a text to tell me that a friend (of sorts!) has called her poor baby Sloane Anais....WTF??? Am I missing something here or does everyone else agree this is just awful?

There are quite a few of us on here with four, five, one person has nine

You might find some more friends in the larger families section! It's on the topic list.

AAH,BEANIE..WHEN WAS I AGGRESSIVE BEFORE I WAS GETTING TOLD HOW TO BEHAVE? HIPPI? WHAT RULES?
YOU HAVE RULES THAT FORBID UPPER-CASE? CRIKEY! I'M HEADING FOR THE NEAREST COMFY CORNER...

Is she American? I just to see this on American boards. Obviously it is dreadful.

OH...BEFORE I GO.
HELEN HONEY? WHEN YOU WANT TO SHOUT...LET RIP LUV & LET 'EM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.
YOU DON'T NEED CAPS TO DO THAT.
X

Excellent thread,

WOULD ANYBODY LIKE A VALIUM?????????? [GRIN]

on pretty much any forum, caps are considered SHOUTING. it is rude to do it.

What is the correct pronunciation of Anais though?

Kelly - email.about.com/cs/netiquettetips/qt/et020801.htm is a webpage that explains the posting-in-caps issue...it's just not 'done', and for good reasons. This has been the accepted 'rule' since the internet began, I think.

It's a bit like going into a party where people are talking, and YELLING at the top of your voice. You may not mean any harm by it, but unless you have a hearing/voicebox problem which you can't help, people will be put off and hear the YELL rather than the words.

If you then get all prickly when people ask you to speak in a normal voice, then they're entitled to get a wee bit tetchy - don't you think?

Anyway, if you read the link it will be a bit clearer.

It is Anne-EYE-uss.

Actually I find it much harder to type in caps. I have to keep turning off the blardy thing to do punctuation.

Or is there a way round that? Otherwise I can't see how it's easier?

Anais is lovely ....... Sloane?!! wtf?!

My caps doesn't affect my punctuation - if I put caps lock on. Holding down shift and typing does though.

Kelly, I find it interesting you say you find it easier to read caps - most people don't, because the letters are all the same height, so there's none of the natural up and down that means it's easier to skim read without actually looking at each word, because you just see the general shape of the word.

Not saying you DON'T find it easier, just that it's interesting.

Agree with those who see it as shouting - I've been using forums for 12 years now, so I actually read posts in caps in a shouty voice in my head, which makes my teeth itch. I expect I'm not alone in that - which might be why you've had the reaction you have on this thread.

Can you try setting your screen up so the text is a larger size, rather than using caps?

To the OP - Sloane - wouldn't use it myself, Anais, same (prefer Anais).

Yes that's it Hunker. I didn't realise before but I do hear the words out loud in my head as I read them, and caps just sounds like BARRY SCOTT.

Thankyou for the tip about caps btw. Maybe I am just 6afraid^ the punctuation will all be wrong so have not actually tried it.

Interesting how KellyMG starts off pointing out that OP and this thread was nasty and ended up being nasty herself.

Blimey, ducks head under crossfire...

In answer to the OP, Anais is lovely. Sloane is aspirational and very naff.

slaone is an old irish name

Yes it's awful.
It's also awful being in that situation where u wanna tell your friend that it's a horrible name but u can't.
My friend named her little girl Lola last year and I just hate. I can rant for a good half an hour explaining my reasons why I hate it so much. I crinch every time I have to say her name!

Lola is a nice name,what's not to like ?

If I ever had another DD (with Neil Oliver this time I've decided) I'm going to call her KELLY HONEY

What do you all think?

rofl laughing(not at name-at thread)talk about being up your own backside.
name isnt my taste but im sure people dont like my dc names either.maybe considered boring.

i love it paulo

1. Lola...she was a show girl.
2. The Kinks song Lola (2 awful songs that will be sung to her throughout her whole life!
3. it looks like LOL
4. Her sister is called Molly so they'll always be referred to as Mol and Lol.
5. Lola Ferrari

I just hate it.

i love lola.

I'm kind of torn with Lola. I do like it, but then as xxhunny said, there are lots of other connotations with the name (and not forgetting the rather irritating sister of Charlie) so I don't know.

It's a moot point for me though, because I have already picked out the name of my next DD