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I say nothing. It's their child! Their taste is respectable, even if we find their choice silly or ugly or whatever. We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings!
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I grin and bear it. My nephew named his daughter Laughter. She was born while I was living out of state, but I will soon be moving back and seeing her often. I think I will call her Gigs, short for giggles.
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I can not imagine any name that would be that bad that I would ever comment or ask them about it, except if it was something like "Adolf Hitler Weisberg" or "BKT Killer Smith" or "Charles Manson Jones" or "Pedophile Sex Johnson". In that case, I probably would just ask them how they decided to use that name. (Maybe they have a logical reason, perhaps great-grandpa had the nick-name of "Pedophile" and they wanted to honor him.)
I have known students with "free spirit" names such as "Windy", "Sunshine", "Wonderful", "Summer" and even those aren't too bad.
Obviously, the parents love the name so just "let it go".
We all have opinions... especially when it's not your childs name... but this is an opinion that you keep to yourself and if the parents find out that their so-called friend(s) are bad-mouthing their childs name then good luck repairing that friendship.
Unless you'd stand and look an adult you'd just met in the eye and tell them that you really hate their name, observe the same propriety and don't say anything.
It's not your child, your choice or your moniker that you're going to have your entire life.
Yeah that's kind of what I do too, I just hope my poker face is as good as I think it is.
I'm positive that there's been at least a few people who've thought my kids names are awful when I told them what they are.
I just think it's funny when people make up their own names because they think they're being creative but in reality the names are awful. Like Chanderella
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