Post by spicysalmonroll on Nov 12, 2015 10:25:30 GMT -5
Alright here goes. I don't like middle names because I think they serve no purpose. I don't have one and at no point in my life did I need one or wish I had one. So I'm very much on the fence about giving one to my future kid.
Alright here goes. I don't like middle names because I think they serve no purpose. I don't have one and at no point in my life did I need one or wish I had one. So I'm very much on the fence about giving one to my future kid.
I dislike my kid's middle name. It means a lot to H though (it's his grandpa's middle name and he was super close with him). He doesn't know how much I dislike it. Honestly I can think of a handful of times when we've actually had to use DS's middle name. In case anyone is curious it's ja.ydean.
Alright here goes. I don't like middle names because I think they serve no purpose. I don't have one and at no point in my life did I need one or wish I had one. So I'm very much on the fence about giving one to my future kid.
I dislike my kid's middle name. It means a lot to H though (it's his grandpa's middle name and he was super close with him). He doesn't know how much I dislike it. Honestly I can think of a handful of times when we've actually had to use DS's middle name. In case anyone is curious it's ja.ydean.
I think this is one way middle names are nice - it gives you a way to honor a family member without having to call your kid by that name. I think most the middle names in my family are family names of some sort.
In what I'm guessing is not a hugely unpopular related opinion, I really dislike calling a child by their middle name - I know a number of people, including my dad, who go by their middle name, and they all say it's a big headache. My dad does enjoy what his initials spell though, so he never had his first and middle name legally switched.
I dislike my kid's middle name. It means a lot to H though (it's his grandpa's middle name and he was super close with him). He doesn't know how much I dislike it. Honestly I can think of a handful of times when we've actually had to use DS's middle name. In case anyone is curious it's ja.ydean.
I think this is one way middle names are nice - it gives you a way to honor a family member without having to call your kid by that name. I think most the middle names in my family are family names of some sort.
In what I'm guessing is not a hugely unpopular related opinion, I really dislike calling a child by their middle name - I know a number of people, including my dad, who go by their middle name, and they all say it's a big headache. My dad does enjoy what his initials spell though, so he never had his first and middle name legally switched.
This.
My cousin is N.ora J.ade. She has gone by Jade her whole life. WHY??? It makes me mad, because I would use Nora as a name for future children and feel like I can't.
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I think this is one way middle names are nice - it gives you a way to honor a family member without having to call your kid by that name. I think most the middle names in my family are family names of some sort.
In what I'm guessing is not a hugely unpopular related opinion, I really dislike calling a child by their middle name - I know a number of people, including my dad, who go by their middle name, and they all say it's a big headache. My dad does enjoy what his initials spell though, so he never had his first and middle name legally switched.
This.
My cousin is N.ora J.ade. She has gone by Jade her whole life. WHY??? It makes me mad, because I would use Nora as a name for future children and feel like I can't.
Or my SIL calls one daughter just by her first name, but the other daughter by first middle. So like Morgan and Mary Ellen. I kinda don't understand that lol (yes it's a legal middle name, not part of the first name)
My cousin is N.ora J.ade. She has gone by Jade her whole life. WHY??? It makes me mad, because I would use Nora as a name for future children and feel like I can't.
Or my SIL calls one daughter just by her first name, but the other daughter by first middle. So like Morgan and Mary Ellen. I kinda don't understand that lol (yes it's a legal middle name, not part of the first name)
I think it's a southern thing. My family on my dad's side were very much southern belles and my grandma and her sister went by both first and middle names. My grandma was still alive when my sister was born so her name is one that is easily first and middle.
If we ever have a second son this middle name will be Do.uglas because it's a family name no one has ever used.
spicysalmonroll, ok. I love middle names! I think a name sounds incomplete without a middle and I have used family names in the middle spot for each of my boys (sometimes first and middle). I have lots of O's on naming "rules" and hesitate to state them here (I use the bn board for that).
UO- I really don't like the word "probing" or when people on TCF use it to mean being on the boards. (I see it a lot in BMBs and sometimes Parenting) I think this is a word that originated a long time ago on TD, but I do not want to "probe" you all. No thank you.
Or my SIL calls one daughter just by her first name, but the other daughter by first middle. So like Morgan and Mary Ellen. I kinda don't understand that lol (yes it's a legal middle name, not part of the first name)
I think it's a southern thing. My family on my dad's side were very much southern belles and my grandma and her sister went by both first and middle names. My grandma was still alive when my sister was born so her name is one that is easily first and middle.
If we ever have a second son this middle name will be Do.uglas because it's a family name no one has ever used.
YES! That's part of why I don't understand it on my nieces. We are in New England with no connection to the south on either family side. So one daughter's name is very "trendy" and the other is very southern sounding. I mean it's not terrible or anything, just strikes me as odd to have such different styles. Like there was a girl in my high school named Tenneha Seneca and her brother was Michael. Just makes you be like, oooook.
I'm not sure if this is a thing but why do you put a periods in a name? Is this a protection from people searching that name or are kids being named with a period in them?
Names are a huge deal in both MH family as well as my own. I have an aunt Grace, Grandma Grace, Great Grandma Grace, etc. and they would go by middle names when they were all together. DH's family is the same with his name and his father and grandfather. I think some names sound regal with a flowing middle name. Also I would think with common names like John Smith, the middle name helps to make them easier to identify which one you are looking up.
My dad, all of his siblings, his father and my brother all go by their middle names. They were all named purposefully to use their middle names. I don't get it, but it seems to be a big tradition is some communities in my area.
UO- I really don't like the word "probing" or when people on TCF use it to mean being on the boards. (I see it a lot in BMBs and sometimes Parenting) I think this is a word that originated a long time ago on TD, but I do not want to "probe" you all. No thank you.
FWIW, I don't like it either, but I think my dislike comes from seeing speedprobe threads whizzing by and those make my mind hurt. But as far as where it came from, I assumed the term "probe" came from ProBoards, which wouldn't make it a TD term. Maybe I'm wrong. My TD-to-TCF history is foggy. Hmm.
Alright here goes. I don't like middle names because I think they serve no purpose. I don't have one and at no point in my life did I need one or wish I had one. So I'm very much on the fence about giving one to my future kid.
But if you don't have a MN, what are you supposed to use as your FB alias??? LOL. 9 out of 10 FB friends use FN MN on Facebook these days. I once actually received a wedding invite addressed to me as FN MN. Obviously it wasn't someone I was close to
Post by mynameiscarrie on Nov 12, 2015 12:40:13 GMT -5
I don't have an opinion on MNs, but my great grandfather didn't have a middle name and when he joined the military they may him pick at least a letter so he could be identified better if anything happened to him. He chose the letter M. It stood for Middle. Great Grandpa's got jokes.
ETA: I lied. I do have an opinion about middle names. Add me to the group that doesn't understand why you would call someone by their middle name. Maybe if they choose it as their preferred name when they get older, but I don't understand the point of naming a child something with the intent to call them by their middle name.
Alright here goes. I don't like middle names because I think they serve no purpose. I don't have one and at no point in my life did I need one or wish I had one. So I'm very much on the fence about giving one to my future kid.
But if you don't have a MN, what are you supposed to use as your FB alias??? LOL. 9 out of 10 FB friends use FN MN on Facebook these days. I once actually received a wedding invite addressed to me as FN MN. Obviously it wasn't someone I was close to
Really? I can think of like one person on FB who doesn't use their real name (first last). Is this what all the crazy kids are doing these days (I'm old)?
Really? I can think of like one person on FB who doesn't use their real name (first last). Is this what all the crazy kids are doing these days (I'm old)?
I had to check my FB after reading this. Everyone I know uses FN and LN. Some just throw in FN Maiden Name LN.
I have 3 different Katie Ann (no last name) on FB. It's super annoying trying to tag one and getting the wrong one.
Many people on my Facebook use first/middle (myself included) for their profile names. Some use something else entirely (I have a Docta McTubsons* and a Pinot Noir*)
But if you don't have a MN, what are you supposed to use as your FB alias??? LOL. 9 out of 10 FB friends use FN MN on Facebook these days. I once actually received a wedding invite addressed to me as FN MN. Obviously it wasn't someone I was close to
Really? I can think of like one person on FB who doesn't use their real name (first last). Is this what all the crazy kids are doing these days (I'm old)?
Most of my FB friends that do "FN MN" are teachers. They do it so their students can't easily search for them on FB.
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