Quote: (12-05-2018 05:58 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
Why not simply have a ban on names that are unpronouncable, offensive, in bad taste or obviously harmful? For example, feel free to name your kid a weird name like Zuyira or Tascamor or whatever else if you want, but not Zzzz or Titsamor. That would cut down on 99% of this nonsense.
Iceland already does this. They have a naming committee that has issued a list of approved names for newborns. These names have to meet a strict criteria, one of which is that it must sound "Icelandic" to the ear. Stupid names are routinely rejected by the committee and it's led to lawsuits.
There's something to be said for that, but that kind of compulsion would never go over in the US.
We suffer more in our own minds than we do in reality.
-Seneca