So, I just made a thread about this but figured some would’ve already seen and voted on it and not looked in there to see this update, so I just decided to start a new topic.
I said this in the last topic:
I have a predicament.
I have this sibset in this story I’m writing that I had all squared away, but now I’m questioning it. So, their dad is from [name_f]France[/name_f] and their mom is from [name_f]Jamaica[/name_f]. Their first names are [name_u]Zion[/name_u], Zanthia, & Zavien, and their middles are [name_u]Bravery[/name_u], [name_f]Spirit[/name_f], & [name_u]Valor[/name_u] or [name_u]Bravery[/name_u], Courage, & [name_u]Valor[/name_u] or [name_u]Bravery[/name_u], [name_f]Spirit[/name_f], & Courage.
[name_f]My[/name_f] predicament is this: I feel like their mom got to have her own personal flair with their first names, so should their dad get to have their middle names be in his mother tongue or should they just be in [name_f]English[/name_f] bc they’re living in an [name_f]English[/name_f]-speaking country? I have tried and tried to decide and I just can’t so y’all are gonna do it for me.
For reference, in [name_u]French[/name_u] their middles would be:
[name_u]Bravery[/name_u] = Bravoure
[name_f]Spirit[/name_f] = Espirit
[name_u]Valor[/name_u] = Valeur
Courage = Courage (pronounced with a [name_u]French[/name_u] accent)
[end of what I said in past topic]
But what I forgot to say is that the reason I’m hesitant to do the French middles is because another family in the same story named their kids with names from one of their home countries and words from the other’s mother tongue, and I worry that it’s too much to repeat it in another family but I also feel like it’s the right thing to do for this family. Ugh. This is why y’all are gonna decide for me.
I apologize for the miscommunication on my part to the people that already voted on that other one and I’m sure thought “… why wouldn’t you use the French middles?”!
- French middles
- English middles
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I’d love to know why you voted for what you did!