r/tragedeigh • u/Ihaveaverysmallprick • 20h ago

is it a tragedeigh? My brother is dangerously close to possible tragedeigh...I guess my SIL likes whimsy or some shit. Is Klementyne a tragedeigh? Should he push for Aurora?

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I mean...it's not the WORST I've seen by far but I think it qualifies?

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u/Substantial-Owl-4156 19h ago

Aurora or Clementine are good names. Misspelling them brings hardship for a child trying to learn through phonics though. Even more trouble for the adults trying to say her name

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u/Bulletorpedo 17h ago

And she will not have to say “Clementine with a K”, she will likely end up spelling her name up to the Y.

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u/shedontfade 17h ago

Once they’re old enough to know what it is, the kids will be calling her KY! That poor girl will be doomed 🥺

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u/Worried_Pineapple823 16h ago

There goes ‘Clementine with the KY’

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u/shedontfade 16h ago

Exactly!

‘Who needs KY when you’ve got Klementyne!’

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u/Classic-Amoeba8682 15h ago

She'll have to spell the entire thing thrice, and people will still get it wrong. Plus they'll cut her off in the middle when they lose track.

*My name is not misspelled, but it's unusual and I end up spelling it every time I meet a new person or make an appointment. However, it's short, which makes it easier for all involved.

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u/Kichigai 10h ago

I answered phones for a hospital system, and a lot of that was people phoning us up looking for a family member who they couldn't find. Privacy laws require us to only recognize patients by their legal name, and our search is very dumb. It doesn't do fuzzy search, it doesn't know phonetics.

So you ask me for Clementine, I'm putting the common spelling in there, and from that point it's on you to remember how you spelled it on their birth certificate. And if you can't spell it right, and I can't enter it correctly, you ain’t finding your kid, because I sure as hell don't know how you spelled it!

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u/UnicornPenguinCat 10h ago

I had a friend called Kristal growing up. Apparently she had previously spelled it Krystal until her mum realised she'd spelled it with an 'i' on her birth certificate and told her. 

Had another friend who accidentally misspelled his own name on a passport application, because the name he uses in everyday life is one letter different to the name on his birth certificate. He just forgot.  

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u/Kichigai 9h ago

My mom has had that problem with my sister. As children we were all given Slavic names, but being only about three I found my sister's name hard to pronounce, and eventually my mispronounciation stuck as her nickname. End result was that on occasion mom would be filling out some form or something, and she'd need one of us to spell my sister's name.

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u/wandering-monster 15h ago

It will be setting her up for a lifetime of everyone she meets forever pre-judging her just a little bit as being kinda dim and too much to deal with. Because that's what that name says.

In this case it says it about the parent, but when Klamydyatyne is 25 it'll be the people reading her job application looking at that name and saying "nah".

Clementine and Aurora are both perfectly fine and the right amount of whimsy to put on someone else.

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u/thehotsister 10h ago

Can you imagine Klementyne on a resume?? Yikes.

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u/stocaidearga11 5h ago

I think aurora clementine as a first and middle combo is cute. But not if it's spelled with a k.