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The Waltz said: 

Tryptamine said: 

Been thinking some about names & languages, what hearing “Tim” for your whole life does to your self-perception (think bouba/kiki language experiment). And furthermore how names usually seem to fit people; how I’ve never met an ectomorph named Hank, or a tank named Wilbert. How these genetic dispositions in body are also in the minds of parents that come up with a sound to embody (often fittingly) the essence of what comes from them. I might post a bit more on language, but I’m not sure it’s interesting enough to bother with.

 Lol, totally ludicrous. Your name won’t shape your genetic predisposition. However we can say that some people can be affected psychologically if they are granted certain names. Imagine if someone is crazy enough to name their boy, Sissy or Faggot.  Doesn’t mean they will grow up to become gay, in fact they might grow with enough anger to become huge homophobes.

It’s much more about your own perception to how people treat you than your name. You won’t grow into a tank just because you name is Hank lol.

I could say I’ve always pictured people with such names like Roy Nelson to be some kind of skinny mullet redneck wearing jeans jacket, driving a red truck with a confederate flag on the back and yet Roy Nelson is a huge heavyweight MMA fighter.

Mike Tyson. The man was gifted with the boxing talent and cursed with the most ridiculous voice a man could ever come up with, and yet he probably used the mockery he got all his life to become a terrifying athlete. 

So no, the name might influence your personality but definitely not your genetics.

He meant that genetic predisposition likely affects choice of names for their children, or that certain appearances might bait certain names more. 

Turncoat said: 

The Waltz said: 

Tryptamine said: 

Been thinking some about names & languages, what hearing “Tim” for your whole life does to your self-perception (think bouba/kiki language experiment). And furthermore how names usually seem to fit people; how I’ve never met an ectomorph named Hank, or a tank named Wilbert. How these genetic dispositions in body are also in the minds of parents that come up with a sound to embody (often fittingly) the essence of what comes from them. I might post a bit more on language, but I’m not sure it’s interesting enough to bother with.

 Lol, totally ludicrous. Your name won’t shape your genetic predisposition. However we can say that some people can be affected psychologically if they are granted certain names. Imagine if someone is crazy enough to name their boy, Sissy or Faggot.  Doesn’t mean they will grow up to become gay, in fact they might grow with enough anger to become huge homophobes.

It’s much more about your own perception to how people treat you than your name. You won’t grow into a tank just because you name is Hank lol.

I could say I’ve always pictured people with such names like Roy Nelson to be some kind of skinny mullet redneck wearing jeans jacket, driving a red truck with a confederate flag on the back and yet Roy Nelson is a huge heavyweight MMA fighter.

Mike Tyson. The man was gifted with the boxing talent and cursed with the most ridiculous voice a man could ever come up with, and yet he probably used the mockery he got all his life to become a terrifying athlete. 

So no, the name might influence your personality but definitely not your genetics.

He meant that genetic predisposition likely affects choice of names for their children, or that certain appearances might bait certain names more. 

 How so? Most people pick the names even before the babies are born, and basically, most healthy babies are born very similar. If based on their appearance as they pop out, we should be seeing a lot of Wrinkled Balls Jr walking down the streets.

It’s not as the pop out. They’re 50% each parent genetically, and the makeup of the parents determines something suitable from their essence of what to call the child. For example Levi being a more masculine name, seems less likely if the parents are intellectuals they’d name their son Levi or Hank.

Masculine alone isn’t a good descriptor of those names. It’s like more masculine and “hardy”, if that makes sense.

The Waltz said: 

Turncoat said: 

The Waltz said: 

Tryptamine said: 

Been thinking some about names & languages, what hearing “Tim” for your whole life does to your self-perception (think bouba/kiki language experiment). And furthermore how names usually seem to fit people; how I’ve never met an ectomorph named Hank, or a tank named Wilbert. How these genetic dispositions in body are also in the minds of parents that come up with a sound to embody (often fittingly) the essence of what comes from them. I might post a bit more on language, but I’m not sure it’s interesting enough to bother with.

 Lol, totally ludicrous. Your name won’t shape your genetic predisposition. However we can say that some people can be affected psychologically if they are granted certain names. Imagine if someone is crazy enough to name their boy, Sissy or Faggot.  Doesn’t mean they will grow up to become gay, in fact they might grow with enough anger to become huge homophobes.

It’s much more about your own perception to how people treat you than your name. You won’t grow into a tank just because you name is Hank lol.

I could say I’ve always pictured people with such names like Roy Nelson to be some kind of skinny mullet redneck wearing jeans jacket, driving a red truck with a confederate flag on the back and yet Roy Nelson is a huge heavyweight MMA fighter.

Mike Tyson. The man was gifted with the boxing talent and cursed with the most ridiculous voice a man could ever come up with, and yet he probably used the mockery he got all his life to become a terrifying athlete. 

So no, the name might influence your personality but definitely not your genetics.

He meant that genetic predisposition likely affects choice of names for their children, or that certain appearances might bait certain names more. 

How so? Most people pick the names even before the babies are born, and basically, most healthy babies are born very similar. If based on their appearance as they pop out, we should be seeing a lot of Wrinkled Balls Jr walking down the streets.

Figure, a family that wears glasses will have reduced proclivities in sports and will become more likely to take up solitary pursuits like reading. The stereotype of people with glasses being smarter comes from how that lends to a different sense of gregarious traits, increasing the odds of intelligent people and people with glasses of pairing up and having children over how it makes their behaviors in life become that much more similar. 

His point above is over an idea that we won't likely see a lean dude named Hank (I've met thin Hanks but that's not really the point) or a built muscle-dude with some nerdy name (when that happens they tend to just shorten it to one syllable, like Philbert becoming Phil). He is effectively pondering what lends to the likelihood of names being given to children that otherwise seem to reflect aspects of that name's sound, which is something to figure. 

Do you see a jock naming their kid Mordecai? 

It wouldn’t be a direct 1-to-1 correlation with names and physiology or temperament; only non-random which I’d have a hard time not believing was a thing. It’d be harder to prove what hearing how your name sounds does to you over time, but given the bouba/kiki effect, I think it must do something.

Turncoat said: 

The Waltz said: 

Turncoat said: 

The Waltz said: 

Tryptamine said: 

 

He meant that genetic predisposition likely affects choice of names for their children, or that certain appearances might bait certain names more. 

How so? Most people pick the names even before the babies are born, and basically, most healthy babies are born very similar. If based on their appearance as they pop out, we should be seeing a lot of Wrinkled Balls Jr walking down the streets.

Figure, a family that wears glasses will have reduced proclivities in sports and will become more likely to take up solitary pursuits like reading. The stereotype of people with glasses being smarter comes from how that lends to a different sense of gregarious traits, increasing the odds of intelligent people and people with glasses of pairing up and having children over how it makes their behaviors in life become that much more similar. 

His point above is over an idea that we won't likely see a lean dude named Hank (I've met thin Hanks but that's not really the point) or a built muscle-dude with some nerdy name (when that happens they tend to just shorten it to one syllable, like Philbert becoming Phil). He is effectively pondering what lends to the likelihood of names being given to children that otherwise seem to reflect aspects of that name's sound, which is something to figure. 

Do you see a jock naming their kid Mordecai? 

 Hehe. I'm flashing back to "Chadwick Boseman reading mean tweets" lol

Tryptamine said: 

It’s not as the pop out. They’re 50% each parent genetically, and the makeup of the parents determines something suitable from their essence of what to call the child. For example Levi being a more masculine name, seems less likely if the parents are intellectuals they’d name their son Levi or Hank.

 Levi feels less masculine and more, "homeschooled and religious"

Can you just imagine a hardened criminal named Jerry?

Curator said: 

Can you just imagine a hardened criminal named Jerry?

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