The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84356 Message #1557406
Posted By: Azizi
06-Sep-05 - 08:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: US personal names
Subject: RE: BS: US personal names
Wilfried Schaum,
IMO, African Americans don't base their naming practices on linguistics or proscribed meanings of syllables. Here's what I think we base our personal names on:
1. The sound of the name {does the name "sound good" to us
based on certain sound preferences
that seem to be cultural, some apparentlylong
lasting some more recent.