Dammit, Lemex, you still haven't told me which syllable gets the accent! Is it "le-MEKS" or "LEH-meks"?? Come on, man! Stop fighting the truth! Find a way to communicate what you mean!!!!!!
Haha, I keep saying it out loud, and now I'm not even sure. Saying it naturally the first syllable gets the most emphasis. L-EH-mex.
Ah! I see, at last! Always remember, when you're teaching someone, they're not necessarily proceeding from the same base of knowledge you are. Help them out!
Good advice. It's funny, but as soon as I started saying it out loud to work it all out the word quickly became just two annoyingly meaningless sounds I started having trouble even recognizing.
Nef (as in the manufacturer of nef fridges) a (as in apple) lee (as in, the male name, Lee) Nephele Nef-a-lee
And just to clarify, before you ask, Dantea is not pronounce Dan (male name) Tea (Hot beverage) It's pronounced: Dante (male name) ah (on the end) Dante-ah Dantea
Would it be Ne-f-ily, with a hard, a consonant stop like Nevil: the man's name, plus addition 'ee; could be, even, the adjective of Nevil?' Whilst I picture Dantia is lighter on her toes: a dainty Dantea-ah. When Donaldo marries Daintear, Daintear becomes more authentic, emotionally engaged before an ultimate betrothal
I like the name Sarah, although I know so many people called it that I find it a little bit overused lol. I also like the idea of naming someone November, although strangely I've never named a story character that.
No. Nephele is a very soft name, and spoken softly. Picture an angel or a fairy. Dantea is the result of a need. I needed a female version of Dante and just added the 'a' before I even looked it up to find out if it's a real name. And again, more of an aaaa, (as in hay) sound, I guess, like Dan-tay-ah.
This doesn't help me at all. How do you pronoune Dante (male name)? Edit: I keep coming up with DON-tay, but that might not be what you intend.
In your accent that's probably right. I think my guess is the same as yours, only I would write it DAHN-tay. It could also be DAHN-teh, which I think is closer to the Italian, where I think she got the name from.
Has no one heard of Dante's Inferno??? Actually, I guess pronunciation depends on where you are from, but that's the name. However you pronounce Dante's Inferno, that's Dante, Dantea is the same but with ah on the end.
Yeah, for me it is somewhere between Don and Dan, Dahn sounds right. And the teh is a little softer than tay, which is also how I'd pronounce it.
Which all depends on where you are from. Any name will have the same problem. Take my name, Elaine. it can and is pronounced lots of different ways: E-layne Al-ane Ell-ane Ee-layne E-lan and then you get the nicknames, Ellie, Laney, Lain, L etc.
Ee-layne being a personal favourite. The people who do this with names, that whiney drawn out first syllable, are usually offensive to my ears regardless of what they are saying.
I'm not that precious when it comes to my characters' names. Although, I did want to name one Amélie even though it still makes people think of the French movie. I just happen to like it myself, and it also felt like a name her parents would've given her. The names I like but have never used in any story are: Eva, Erik, Mikael, Ofelia/Ophelia, Sofia. The names I like and that have appeared in my and T's stories: Christian, Tristan, Blake (as a William Blake reference...) and Miriam (a totally douchey move, my third name is a variation of it, but hell, I like it! The character was virtually nothing like me, though). The name I like but could only use if I was French and even then it might be awkward: Belle. If I named a Finnish kid Belle, it would be twisted to 'Pelle' which means a clown. If she went to an English speaking country, it'd sound like her name was Bell.
Alexandria, shortened to Alex in terms of what you'd call the actual person though. Katie, Sarah, Claire and Stephanie for girls For guys, Alexander, James, Stephen and Jonathan.
1. Leanne 2. Lucretia 3. Lisette 4. Leticia (Lɛtisiːə) 5. Liselotte 6. Leia 7. Lucille If I had daughters, I would name them in that order too. I am not so good with male names, which is why there are none. I just happen to like names starting with the letter, "L," best. I freely reuse the names as I deem appropriate in pretty much all of my writing. These names usually fall upon lead heroines or other important characters. I never really bother with surnames, so very few characters actually have them unless I go out of my way to do it intentionally, which is what I did in my latest work for a character named, Leticia Liselotte Lascelles.
Had to stop at number 2, reminded me too much of a great BST song, "Lucretia Mac Evil" who would make a great character in a story. "Lucretia Mac Evil, little girl, what's your game? Hard luck and trouble, bound to be your claim to fame Tail shakin, home breakin truckin through town Each and every country mother's son hangin round Drive a young man insane Evil, that's your name ..." I didn't go look at it, but I noticed there was a link to names that are going extinct on my homepage news items, that would make an interesting choice of names I would think, although the OP asked for favorite names so maybe it doesn't really fit so well here.
One of the reasons to like the name is the many impressions that it gives when you hear it. Somehow, the name most often seem to get placed with evil and female ghosts. Probably because it has an old-fashioned sense to it. Eh, I do not know. My idea is more of a pretty girl with hints of albinism in a victorian era dress.
Probably because of Lucretia Borgia. Sometimes historical figures are so famous (or infamous) that they make certain stigma stick to their names for decades or even centuries. I like older names often, but not always, biblical. To me they sound classy and beautiful- Gabriel Lawrence (my grandfather's name) Phillip Hector (my favorite character from the Illiad) Rachael (favorite character from a book I read as a kid) Carolina Olivia Serafina (family name on my maternal grandmother's side)
