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DoktorvonEurotrash
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01:34:50 PM Jun 19th 2010
Doktor von Eurotrash: Removed this from the Dean Koontz example under Literature:

  • Especially funny in that both 'Punchinello' and 'Beezo' are names of obscure Mario enemies, and Punchinello does happen to be vaguely clown-ish.

Because "Punchinello" is a much older name for a clown character, going back to the Pulcinella character of Commedia Dell Arte. Added a parenthesis to the original entry explaining that.
robertfm
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12:22:08 AM Sep 8th 2010
Just removed the following from Music:

  • "Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light..."-Sting.

How is "Roxanne" supposed to be an example of this trope, in this context or any other?

robertfm
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10:40:23 PM Sep 11th 2010
Removed this from Literature:

  • Subjectively we also have the names of the children in the epilogue, whose name just consist of other characters' names stringed together at almost random. Albus Severus Potter?

Ignoring the errors ("name" should be "names" and "stringed" refers to an instrument — the correct word here is "strung"), this is clearly not an example; in the epilogue Harry actually tells Albus that he was named after two Hogwarts Headmasters, and the other names are evidently also of this sort — nothing "unfortunate" about them. This is quite common practice in Real Life; one biography of master clockmaker John Harrison said that many of his ancestors were also John, and that he called his son John.

robertfm
10:55:08 PM Sep 11th 2010
edited by robertfm
Having just checked the archived discussion, I see that "Albus Severus Potter" has already been deleted at least once before. Presumably it gets posted by someone who is too dumb to just doesn't get the "name your kids after relatives or people you admire" convention mentioned above.

Vilui
06:25:55 PM Nov 28th 2010
Regardless of convention, it's unfortunate because J. K. Rowling just doesn't get the concept of euphony. (Seriously, "Ginny Molly Weasley"?) But such examples are too subjective for this page, of course.
korax1214
03:13:46 PM Dec 15th 2010
edited by korax1214
"Ginny" is a nickname — her real name is actually "Ginevra", although she's almost never known as that. The archived discussion erroneously states this name to be the Italian equivalent of "Guinevere"; it's actually the French equivalent of "Jennifer" (and the French for "juniper", hence the '60s song).
kclantern1984
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07:38:03 AM Sep 22nd 2011
edited by kclantern1984
I realise I am not famous enough to be listed in the main page, but I have to tell how much of a smart ass my mom was. She named me Kasey Christopher. Honestly, that is my first and middle names (I won't list my last for identity security reasons). I have to spend my whole life correcting people when they write my name, since everyone wants to spell it "Casey". My mom thought she was being cute.
montmorencey
04:07:09 AM Oct 9th 2011
My name (pronounced Yeh-vah) sounds like a very famous brand of beer(at least it is in Germany). Everybody keeps spelling me like the beer and usually they still get it wrong somehow after I correct them. And don't get me started on the jokes I have been hearing since I was too young to even know what beer is. These days, I've turned it into a catchphrase. If I can't get rid of it, I can at least take advantage of it. So far, nobody ever forgot my name when I intruduced myself with the beer-slogan.
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