• Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Expect those examples you gave appeared due to mixing of standard phonetics of different languages. They where two normal things spelled correctly pushed together.

    That’s where the VAST majority of change in language and names comes from. Spellings, or sounds picked up from other languages due to mixed language or dialect households.

    So even the new spelling is still normal by the standards of the environment it came from.

    Many of the recent nonsense names are entirely abnormal in their origin. Having no root in language, dialect, religion, history or culture.

    They are entirely bullshit made up nonsense. Which is NOT normal historically. Even naming after a video game character with a weird name is more normal than what’s been happening.

    • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      What’s not standard about the phonetics of Emmaleigh? Or Graycyn, for that matter, to go with the example in the screnshot?

      “Gray” is a word, and even an extant first name (Gray Davis, for example, or Gray O‘Brien). “Cyn” is a common syllable, like in “cynic”, but it’s also a name itself - it’s a common nickname to shorten “Cyndy” or “Cyntha” (eg Madame Cyn or Cyn Santana).

      You’re fine with Graycyn, right?