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Doesn’t even need to be a particularly shitty name. All that’s necessary is the individual feels strongly enough about not being called their deadname.
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Irish names can be tough. Ive only text chatted with an online friend (This was early 2000 so voice chat wasnt common outside of raiding/coop games), and that meant that Ive trained in the completely wrong pronounciation of Siobhan (Im swedish) which made it weird when I met her and needed to retrain my brain.
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I think I know the right way to say the name you replied to, but how the hell pronounce the one you wrote?
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That kinda tracks, actually, from the little I’ve studied the Irish language. Trying to understand it from the English alphabet can’t help, though, right?
For sure don’t know how that’s supposed to be said, but I’d bet they just go by Izzy.
I think the concept applies to everything.
I, for example, am deadnaming twitter.
well… You HAVE To deadname twitter, I mean musk is pro dead naming since he would do it with his daughter all the time. So dead naming twitter is the right thing to do according to its new owner.
It’s Xitter. The Xi is pronounced as in Xi Jinping
Honestly, I’ve known someone who just wanted to escape a shitty family and cut ties.
Removing their given name was a way to do it.
Some parents really pick the shittiest names imaginable for their offspring and no one should blame the latter for changing them legally.
One day all those girls who were named Khaleesi are gonna absolutely fill up the cemetery of deadnames.
Well season one released about 15 years ago, so the day for those kids is likely soon upon us.
Holden Tudiks
crystal methvin, methany. anna rexia.
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monsseems like its mostly white people deadnaming, shitty names. megan and MEGYN, elons probably the worst deadnamer. or 2 or 3 first names always ends up being a POS person. they try to make sound different, in order to get a reaction.
I was told the term comes from your dead name being what they put on your tombstone. The name you’d be unwillingly known as after you died. The erasure of trans lives by transphobic family members. I don’t think its wrong to use it outside of that context but it would be bad to lose that history.
That’s interesting! I always assumed it was the literal “that name is no longer with us”, but that makes a lot of sense.
I always thought it was a ‘dead’ name in the sense that a person you no longer associate with is ‘dead to me now’.
Like, ‘dead’ in the sense of defunct, obsolete, deprecated, no longer relevant, no longer functional.
Twitter has a deadname. It’s the one case where I recommend using it.
I really prefer to mix them. Xitter has such a nice pronunciation, considering the amount of fecal matter spewed into its oh so vaunted halls.
I like to refer to tweets as Xcremenets now :)
Corps aren’t people so fuck em.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Earliest sign of me being trans was that I hated my name, and would always use an alias whenever possible 😅
