At the age of five, I really don't think kids would get that hung up over a name. I got a nephew in kindergarden, I can't imagine him finding out a little girls name is "Tali'Zorah" and thinking it's odd. Little kids barely know odd.[REDACTED said:]What does having a normal name have to with being the same as everyone else? My name is perfectly standard and I'm weird as fuck. It's just a choice between "Maybe ostracized" and "Definitely ostracized". I know which one I'd choose.SaneAmongInsane said:Not sure if I like to enforce the lesson on my first child "It's important to be the same as everyone else so people don't pick on you."
Remember? The Johnny Cash song? A Boy Named Sue?
TwilitWolfAmaterasu said:I'll tell you this now; it's a hell of a lot simpler than that guy on the forums some odd months ago who almost literally changed his name to "Prince Vegeta", so it could be MUCH worse.
Just to let you guys know, that user has posted in this very thread. A couple of times, in fact.[REDACTED said:]I checked back on that thread, and the question of whether he went through with the change is never resolved. Mr. Mithos Yggdrasil (*snort*) could be walking among us right now.
I strongly disagree. The child will form their own identity, and that will grant their name meaning, whatever it is. Choose a name you think sounds nice, but don't try and impose your own identity on them.SaneAmongInsane said:[At the age of five, I really don't think kids would get that hung up over a name. I got a nephew in kindergarden, I can't imagine him finding out a little girls name is "Tali'Zorah" and thinking it's odd. Little kids barely know odd.
By the time high school roles around, he if it's not the girls name then it's going to be the way she does her hair or some other stupid reason.
I feel like a name should be a real deep special gift given from the parents, sort of a prayer, a symbol of hope, and idea "this is who you should look up to."
Not a "Lets call him Robert so the kids at school don't beat him up, eh?"
Good to see my clones are finally numbering Rei's.[REDACTED said:]I strongly disagree. The child will form their own identity, and that will grant their name meaning, whatever it is. Choose a name you think sounds nice, but don't try and impose your own identity on them.SaneAmongInsane said:[At the age of five, I really don't think kids would get that hung up over a name. I got a nephew in kindergarden, I can't imagine him finding out a little girls name is "Tali'Zorah" and thinking it's odd. Little kids barely know odd.
By the time high school roles around, he if it's not the girls name then it's going to be the way she does her hair or some other stupid reason.
I feel like a name should be a real deep special gift given from the parents, sort of a prayer, a symbol of hope, and idea "this is who you should look up to."
Not a "Lets call him Robert so the kids at school don't beat him up, eh?"
Besides, there's actually a lot of wiggle room for names. There's a difference between "unusual" and "embarrassing". Something like Anastasia would be the former. Tali'Zorah would be the latter.
Edit: @Asuka Soryu: Well... this is awkward.
Isn't that the whole point of raising a kid? Trying to impose a sense of morality, responsibility, and navigation while they form that identity? And how does that not start with a name?[REDACTED said:]I strongly disagree. The child will form their own identity, and that will grant their name meaning, whatever it is. Choose a name you think sounds nice, but don't try and impose your own identity on them.SaneAmongInsane said:[At the age of five, I really don't think kids would get that hung up over a name. I got a nephew in kindergarden, I can't imagine him finding out a little girls name is "Tali'Zorah" and thinking it's odd. Little kids barely know odd.
By the time high school roles around, he if it's not the girls name then it's going to be the way she does her hair or some other stupid reason.
I feel like a name should be a real deep special gift given from the parents, sort of a prayer, a symbol of hope, and idea "this is who you should look up to."
Not a "Lets call him Robert so the kids at school don't beat him up, eh?"
Besides, there's actually a lot of wiggle room for names. There's a difference between "unusual" and "embarrassing". Something like Anastasia would be the former. Tali'Zorah would be the latter.
Edit: @Asuka Soryu: Well... this is awkward.
I wasn't talking about imposing responsibility, morality and navigation (which is obviously a pretty fundamental part of being a parent). I was talking about imposing your own personal identity on them. Naming your kid after a fictional character you like (whose name has a freakin' apostrophe in it) is different from naming them after, say, Jules Verne or Grace Hopper.SaneAmongInsane said:Isn't that the whole point of raising a kid? Trying to impose a sense of morality, responsibility, and navigation while they form that identity? And how does that not start with a name?
And really, TaliZorah is not the worst sounding name. It's not like naming your kid Ponyboy or Sodapop.
Speaking as a substitute teacher, I can tell you that would hardly be the worst name you could give your child.DrunkOnEstus said:Sorry if this somehow belongs in gaming discussion.
Anyway, tomorrow my daughter is scheduled to be born. I'm freaking out and all that, but that's not why I'm here. Since day 1, her first name was always going to be Tali'Zorah. It's not necessarily "named after Mass Effect", but rather my wife fell in love with the name during our first playthrough of ME1 many years ago. Confused friends and relatives are told "we wanted a nice Quarian name" just because it's funny to see the confusion become worse.
All that aside, a couple of people have told me that we're nuts for giving a child that name. I like it a lot, I'm assuming she'll like it, and I don't think she'll get teased for it or anything like that. Out of curiosity, am I totally off base about that? For further discussion value, this thread can be about the entire concept of video games being used to inspire names.
I wouldn´t mind calling my daughter Selan either.krazykidd said:I would totally name my hypothetical Daughter Lufia. Good thing that anyone outside of very specific gaming circles would even know where that is from.
Well, Tali is an Arabic and Hebrew name, so at the very least, she could just shorten her name to a nickname. I'd imagine that that is what will happen anyways. I have a reasonably standard name (Zachary) and even I often just go by a shortened nickname. If people find a way to shorten a name, then they will shorten it. Some people might ask if she's OK with just calling her Tali instead of Tali'Zorah, but most people will just get lazy.DrunkOnEstus said:Sorry if this somehow belongs in gaming discussion.
Anyway, tomorrow my daughter is scheduled to be born. I'm freaking out and all that, but that's not why I'm here. Since day 1, her first name was always going to be Tali'Zorah. It's not necessarily "named after Mass Effect", but rather my wife fell in love with the name during our first playthrough of ME1 many years ago. Confused friends and relatives are told "we wanted a nice Quarian name" just because it's funny to see the confusion become worse.
All that aside, a couple of people have told me that we're nuts for giving a child that name. I like it a lot, I'm assuming she'll like it, and I don't think she'll get teased for it or anything like that. Out of curiosity, am I totally off base about that? For further discussion value, this thread can be about the entire concept of video games being used to inspire names.
I'm mostly with you here, and I think many others who oppose Tali'Zorah just as much I do are as well. However, the OP stated that main reason why they named her daughter "Tali'Zorah" was that it sounded beautiful to them, so that's apparently not the case here.SaneAmongInsane said:I feel like a name should be a real deep special gift given from the parents, sort of a prayer, a symbol of hope, and idea "this is who you should look up to."
Not a "Lets call him Robert so the kids at school don't beat him up, eh?"
What? At no point did I say "Be the same as everyone else", what I said was that giving a child a name is not suppose to be taken lightly and you should take into account that your child may not actually like the name they are given/and or the place that it came from. I will re-iterate, naming a child something unusual is not bad, naming a child after a fictional video game character whom's second half of their first name is said fictional alien's surname is kind of ridiculous. Tali is a fine name, hell it'd be perfect as not only is it a real name but it also ties into OP and his partners enjoyment of the character. Tali is a great middle ground, Tali-Zorah is getting into the area in which the child is being thought of as an item. There's having a unique name and then there's having that is going to cause someone grief (imagine calling your kid Adolf, it's a real name but it's rarely used today because of the stigma attached to it).SaneAmongInsane said:Not sure if I like to enforce the lesson on my first child "It's important to be the same as everyone else so people don't pick on you."
Remember? The Johnny Cash song? A Boy Named Sue?