re: Baby names question

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Please stay away from the new white people trend of adding "den" to the end of every name.

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Good Lord this.

Please don't get inventive. I absolutely hate what my generation has done when it comes to naming babies. People either feel the need to get inventive (adding a 'lyn' or 'den' or misplaced 'y' to everything) or put a creative twist on an existing name (Dayvyd or Elyzybethe).

Seriously, people who do this crap are only causing their kids to be in a for a lifetime of grief and either correcting people when they mispronounce it or having to spell it out (repeatedly) when having to tell it to someone who's writing it down. Plus, if you have a tough-to-pronounce, tough-to-spell last name, don't even think about it.

There's really one simple rule -- never give your kid a name that you wouldn't otherwise vote for for public office if you saw it on a ballot.