That is not entirely unreasonable reasoning? My uncle changed his name from "Arthur" to "Tony" when he moved to Italy because no-one could pronounce "Arthur" and he wanted something more Latinate & accessible to people he worked with.https://twitter.com/_Maro/status/1052272302237265922 …
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Lol any parent who thinks they'll choose a name that somehow means their kid won't have a hard time at school is living in fairyland. A name is just one of *many* things that most kids will grab onto to have a dig at another kid. You might as well just choose the name you like.
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It’s easier for children to mock a name than to look silly mispronouncing it. So children, being uncivilized as they are, will choose mockery.
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There’s also the easy option of going by a “common name” in your daily life: I have a friend named Sunpreet, and she just goes by Sunny with nearly everyone outside of her family, or an institution with which it’s easier to go with her given name, such as school professors.
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A friend of mine is called Ramon in Spain and Desmond in the UK. He is a church pastor and being called something which sounds like "Demon" in Spanish doesn't quite work.
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Famous historian Peter fröhlich, after emigrating from Germany to the US, changed his name to Peter Gay. Guess his offspring may now regret
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There's no way to avoid bullying, except by being the most violent psychopath. From the outside, it didn't look worth it.
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This is nameist and disgusting. You horrify me, "Helen".
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Without people quickly picking sides and screaming insults at each other.... This is actually an interesting discussion on assimilation vs losing heritage. Is assimilation a bad word now to be completely shunned? Why teach kids to speak English then?
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