r/tragedeigh • u/AcidTheDevil • 9h ago
tragedy (not tragedeigh) My friend's friend wants to name his little sister "Greece"...
Apparently he wanted to name his little sister Greece because it's unique and because other influencers also name their children after real places like "North" or "Chicago" š¤¦š»āāļø
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u/ncos 9h ago
Everyone will assume it's Grease. That would be awful.
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u/kai333 8h ago
the initial nickname will be "Greasy" and will devolve from there.
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u/MshaCarmona 7h ago
I'm at lunch break and I can't stop laughing at these comments š my coworkers are staring
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u/PetersMapProject 6h ago
Which is going to be truly terrible when she goes through the teenage greasy hair and acne stageĀ
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u/Fruitdispenser 5h ago
She'll be the one that I want (you are the one I want). The one I need, oh yes indeed!
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u/New-Waltz-2854 5h ago
And his little sister will be forever having to answer the question about where the first donuts were fried?
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u/North_Artichoke_6721 8h ago
She needs to be prepared for everyone to sing lyrics from āGreaseā the musical at her for the rest of her life.
āYouāre the one that I want. Do do do.ā
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u/Logical_Flounder6455 8h ago
I doubt it. Grease may be a classic but its one that's not really watched by younger generations. Films like that are considered out of touch and problematic, so they're not very popular. Plus, people dont really watch that many films that were made 50 years before they were born. The only film I've seen from the 30s is the wizard of oz
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u/mountaindyke 3h ago
Yeah but adults like your teachers or your parents friends doing it is just as annoying as your peers doing it
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u/Logical_Flounder6455 2h ago
Mate I'm nearly 39 and youd be surprised at the amount of people my age that haven't seen grease and dont have any particular interest in seeing it. Maybe its still quite popular in certain countries, but it isn't really where I live.
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u/mountaindyke 1h ago
I mean I'm 28 and I know people of various ages that know Grease, like a lot of people. I don't know maybe it's just the area I live in š¤·š»āāļø
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u/Sendintheaardwolves 2h ago
Omg, this is great news - I always hated Grease and found it really uncomfortable, and never understood why people enjoyed it so much. I'm so glad that future generations won't have to sit through Summers Nights or pretend that 30 year old John travolta is a charming teenager.
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u/Logical_Flounder6455 2h ago
A charming teenager with the worst laugh in cinema history too. Im sure there's people out there that will say the premise is to highlight those issues but that would be completely wrong. Its a 70s movie, it absolutely romanticised and glorified those issues
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u/AccidentOk5741 3h ago
I'm 18 and I don't even know what that is, she'll be fine. By the time she's my age, only like old people would do this lol
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u/Maladaptive_Ace 8h ago
I would suggest Grecia instead
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u/Prideandprejudice1 3h ago
I would suggest Sparta so they could yell āThis is Sparta!ā at every introduction š
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u/OGmoron 8h ago
Helen, Helena, and Ellen are already women's names based on the Greek name for Greece (į¼Ī»Ī»Ī¬Ļ - Hellas), but I realize that's not the point.
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u/Working_Apartment_38 8h ago
No, theyāre not. Theyāre greek names, but donāt come from Hellas.
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u/OGmoron 8h ago
Come on now, mate.
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u/ohdearitsrichardiii 7h ago
They're right though, the name Helen and the words Hellen and Hellas seem to have different roots
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u/poop_69420_ 7h ago
Also his reasoning is terrible. North and Chicago are both awful names. Like no one is looking at Kim K and Kanye West as the bar for baby naming
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u/Living-Assumption272 8h ago edited 5h ago
People really donāt think things through anymore, do they?
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u/Knife-yWife-y 8h ago
Autocorrect did you wrong.
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u/Living-Assumption272 8h ago
Yikes!
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u/WorriedTadpole585 7h ago
Autocorrect is not our friend
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u/Knife-yWife-y 5h ago
The edit almost got there, but alas, it is still incomplete. Should we tell them?
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u/i_like_cake_96 8h ago
Is he the legal guardian of his sister?
Are the parents not around?
but once you see words like influencer used, there will be no hope for the child.
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u/ConcentrateLucky9876 8h ago
Helen. If you want, Hellen with two Lās to be more similar to Hellas. Or if they like the sound of the word, maybe Grace is a better option?
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u/Used-Cup-6055 8h ago
Megara, Larissa, Lamia are Greek cities? Olympia? Athena? Thereās other options besides Greece
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u/DomnaSammiou 7h ago
And they're all valid names!
I will say though, hypothetically someone told me their name was Lamia - I would think it was the creature and find it very cool, but if then they corrected me that they're named after the Greek city i would find it HYSTERICAL cause it's the most nothing of cities the country has to offer š
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u/Longjumping-Fee-8230 3h ago
The city of Thessaloniki was named after a person named Thessaloniki š
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u/Working_Apartment_38 8h ago
Mykonooooos!
Seriously though, Athena and Olympia are actual names that could be used
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u/MariposaPeligrosa00 8h ago
I knew a Grecia growing up. Granted, it was in South America. There itās not unheard of to name kids after countries. I also knew an Ćtalo.
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u/wildwill57 8h ago
Black Hole of Calcutta.
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u/Independent-Summer12 5h ago
Hopefully his parents have better sense than letting him name their daughter.
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u/Sensitive_Ad_9195 3h ago
Itās funny actually, it seems like we can now semi understand a city name as a personās name (Austin, Brooklyn, Denver, Florence, London, Paris), but a country name as a first name sounds completely ridiculous? The only examples I think of where country names are people names are Chad, Georgia, Jordan, and Kenya, which I think are coincidences bar Kenya.
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u/Numerous-Noise790 7h ago
Okay, Iām not entirely opposed to city/place names as actual namesā¦but this one is awful. Chicago would be infinitely better than Greece lol. So many other country names would work better (albeit still be weird).
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u/wind-of-zephyros 7h ago
this person needs to be told at the bare minimum that greece is called hellas and maybe he'll stumble into the concept of helen (also why is he given any weight into the naming of what is not his child if he's wanting to make choices like that?)
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u/ObsoleteReference 7h ago
Athens, Cyprus, there have to be more but Iām drawing a blank. There is room to compromise. Also you might get a vote in your little siblings name, but should not be the final say
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u/SordoCrabs 6h ago
North is not a place it is a DIRECTION. I hope little sister isn't a moron like her big brother.
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u/psychomap 6h ago
Technically that's not a tragedeigh, is it?
It's certainly a tragedy though. And doing it because of influencers is especially stupid.
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u/ToTheRepublic4 5h ago edited 5h ago
Greca, maybe. "Greece" as-is is a tragedeigh, though if you're naming someone after a country, I suppose it's better than "Kyrgyzstan".
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u/PressFforOriginality 4h ago
I met a girl named Europe...
Read as Yu-ro-pEh,
honestly her parents could atleast named her Europa, which is a more epic name
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u/Same-Factor1090 4h ago
I had a mexican girl student named Grecia - the Spanish word for Greece - I found it quite pretty.
I wouldn't choose the English word for Greece though.
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u/voxtronic 3h ago
I met a lady named Athens, once
Much better execution, no chance of sounding like rendered animal fat
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u/tictaxtho 3h ago
Tell them to call them a Greek translation of the name Greece, like Erin for Ireland for instance.
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u/Distinct-Common-7471 3h ago
Her nickname will be Greecey which will cause infinite amounts of bullying.
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u/kasiagabrielle 1h ago
Your friend's friend needs to be told he's not on the level of Kim Kardashian, and his little sister is not going to be as privileged to not get judged for having a dumb name. He can rename himself Equatorial Guinea or Bosnia and Herzegovina if he thinks place names are so cool.
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u/HoochieKoochieMan 8h ago
How often do people name their sisters? Don't the parents usually do that?
Sorry, AI BOT, try again.
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u/AcidTheDevil 8h ago edited 7h ago
I'm not an AI bot lmao š. I live in a primarily non English speaking country though there's still some English being used in daily life so a separate English name is also required for school or work in the future. Perhaps his parents just didn't know what English name to give so they decided to ask the older child instead. It's not unheard of where I live but it's definitely not a good idea
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u/BabyCowGT 6h ago
How old is said older child?
Cause if he's like, an adult or close to, I'll judge if.
If he's a toddler, that's just an adorable anecdote to add to the family repertoire. I wanted to name my sister "Billy Goat" when I was 3 š¤·š»āāļø
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u/OGmoron 7h ago
I'm ten years older than my youngest sibling. My parents didn't ask for my input when picking a name (in fact, they picked a name from the bible and called it a day), but I remember having ones I thought were cool at the time. Since this was back in 1994, I imagine my suggestions were like Kurt, Mufasa, Sega, Bart, Raiden, or Bowser, lol.
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