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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone said this to me once twenty years ago about my name and I hated her after that. I have not forgotten it. [/quote]

Someone told you that they loved your name so much so that they also gave that name to their family pet? Why would this make you upset?[/quote]

This is the fundamental disconnect.  You hear "that's my dog's name" and translate it to "I love that name so much that I also gave it to a family pet!"  Other people hear "that's my dog's name" and hear "that's a dog's name."

FTR, I have had dogs all my life, and of all the dogs I've ever had I can't think of one that we named for sheer, unadulterated love of the name.  For irony, as a reference (college mascot; one from the Bible), because it was cute, because he was already named at the pound -- but never "Bocephus is so meaningful and truly superior as a name.  It is worthy of that which I love most in the world."

I think it's generous to hear the statement in the way that you do, but not necessarily accurate or true in most instances.  On the whole it's probably better to be generous than right, except in this thread where people who hear it in the flattering way are browbeating everyone who hears it in the other way.[/quote]

Based off the original post, the Op said they spoke about how she loved that name. I was going based off what the op said. The pp said that someone said that to her before, and it made her hate the person? [/quote]

I read the PP you're responding to to be saying someone told her "That's my dog's name" (subject line) 20 years ago, not that she had the same convo the OP relayed.  But you may be right.

I have had multiple people tell me that my family name is/was their dog's name, and it didn't make me hate them but it did lower my opinion of them.  It's socially awkward to bring it up at all, and the name was used in every instance as an attempt at an ethnic joke by giving it to the dog - think Rolf for a GSD or something.  Just hacky to give the name and tacky to tell a Rolf about it.  Hate's a bit much, though.[/quote]

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