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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this whole "name your kid" craze has gotten OUT OF CONTROL.
This idea is just the ODDEST yet.
It's not all about you, parents.  Quit making you kid a FREAK when choosing their name.  
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If you think that this idea is the ODDEST yet, then I infer that your experience with ODD (not to mention FREAKY) is quite limited.[/quote]

I am the author of the original post....who is new to this area.  You are correct in assuming that I do not have a great deal (if any) experience with this bazaar culture.  It seems narcisstic to name your child an odd name.  Do you want to set them apart from everyone else?  Is your child better, thus deserving of an "original", unique name.  Let your child develop their own uniqueness.  Also, for the sake of the teachers out there, please include the phonetic translation in parenthesis after the name.  Also, teach your child how to help people pronounce their name, how to politely correct people that keep pronouncing their name incorrectly.  Also, how to explain why their parents named them that.  Yea....your kid will feel like a freak....and there's a good chance others may think their odd.

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OP:  You put the post out there to have people opine.  I did that

OP here. This is a very diverse region so that's probably why you can't pronounce every name you see. Parents pick names that have meaning to them and that often means a name from their cultures. Get over it. But also, your reasoning is completely irrelevant to my post because 1. The new last name is a current, "real" last name that many people have, 2. It's easy to pronounce for native English speakers, 3. We will happily go by the "Patil" family at school events/with their friends so we won't be making some point about how different/special they are, and 4. Plenty of PPs have responded that they either did this or have friends who have, so it's not even a unique thing to do.

Get over yourself. [/quote]

OP:  You put your post out there for feedback.  I gave my feedback.  If your post was intended to insult people that gave you feedback, you succeeded.  I am insulted.  It sounds like you made up your mind before you made your post.[/quote]

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