Take Action Against Inhumane Names for Children!
Here's a pretty old legacy post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 23 years ago, in 2001, on the World Wide Web.
A new and very worthy cause: the Institute for Naming Children Humanely
Why we have to act:
Children, actual, living children, were inflicted with these names:
| Glammoris | (Combining the spectacle of “Glamour” with the banality of “Morris”) |
| Jenyffer | (I bet they thought “Jennifer” was too common. This is not the way to resolve that problem.) |
| Celicia | (At first glance, it looks like a name, but then you realize it isn’t.) |
| Quncel | (This becomes easier to pronounce if you follow the Pinyin system.) |
| Konner | (Any real Irishmen out there want to tell us what happened here?) |
| Alaric | (Okay, Alaric the Visigoth was an important historical figure, but still.) |
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Perhaps Cilicia is a descendant of the ancient land of Cilicia.
I guess that sounded better in my head.