That very often black and certain other "ethnic" providers commonly pick "working" names that are adjectives, adverbs or basic nouns.
IE:
Passion
Rhapsody
Ecstasy
Emotion
Desire
Devine
Destiny
Foxy
Fire
Sunshine
Love
Amoure
Envy
Starfire
Sapphire
Ruby
Onyx
Jewel
Ebony (a cute metaphor)
etc etc etc.
I have noted Caucasian providers on rare occasion to use an adjective/adverb for a working name but it is very rare at best. Some day I'd like to see a gal advertising under the name:
"Gezunta Moid"
Now THAT name would allude to quite a wild time.
CC.
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Dupree
cinnamon (or variations of)
Honey
Simone
Mahogony
Shay
Then again on the other side of the coin
We have half a million Jennifer's
And half a million Sara's
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You can't comment on AA people or culture w/o suffering consequences. Seemingly innocuous comments have caused people to be pariahs in the press and in their profession.
Although Ive had this name for 9 years now. Well, Ciara is now a hot ebony rap star .. So..
Piss off. 
Not directed at you Ciara, just an observation about our society how the mere mention of blacknness will lead to ostracism.
aside from the poster not knowing what an adverb or metaphor is. nouns and adjectives as part of 'workng' names are hardly an ethnic thing. candy, sandy, brandy, cookie, sweet, autumn, spring, summer, barbie, bunny, bambi, love, rose, snow, heart, avalon, houston, paris, fox, etc are just as common with white working girl names.....
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Not to worry. The sunshine and fresh air of an increasingly changing world will send him back to his netherworld of insignificance.
"candy, sandy, brandy, cookie, sweet, autumn, spring, summer, barbie, bunny, bambi, love, rose, snow, heart, avalon, houston, paris, fox, etc are just as common with white working girl names....."
It totally amazes me how hypersensitive people get the minute objective observation pinpoints anything remotely ethnically indigenous. Your list of common nouns/names used by providers and civvies alike is certainly taken under advisement. However Sandy is more an abbreviation for Sandra or the like and ‘sweet” comes under the heading of “adjective”.
FYI – Below is evidence of my rudimentary understanding of aforementioned terminologies.
ad•verb
1.
The part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
met•a•phor
n.
1.A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare).
2.One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: “Hollywood has always been an irresistible, prefabricated metaphor for the crass, the materialistic, the shallow, and the craven” (Neal Gabler).
ad•jec•tive
1.The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.
2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house
You gotta be a bleeding heart liberal from California.
Racist?!? Shit! the guy was just stating an observation. One that I might add is largely true. Do the math pal.
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will call up a girl who has a name they can't pronounce. I went to Japan last year and couldn't believe the wide variety of names the girls had. Blame Hollywood and James Bond movies etc on some of these names.
I have come across many children of hippys who had names like star, happy, september but my parents would have been shot. I use my real name just I work in my hometown. I know wannarideher is a catch phrase.
Your name ISN'T Wannarideher?? LOL
Geez, I thought that was your real name. Oh well, there goes the mystery!
I call myself "Tabu!"
(a popular perfume from the '50s, marketed as a prime seduction weapon in the naughty woman's arsenal; also a pun for:
ta·boo
n. pl. ta·boos, also ta·bus
1. A ban or an inhibition resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.
2.
1. A prohibition, especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands, excluding something from use, approach, or mention because of its sacred and inviolable nature.
2. An object, a word, or an act protected by such a prohibition.
adj.
Excluded or forbidden from use, approach, or mention: a taboo subject.
I was so hoping that you called yourself Tabu because you're of Polyneisan ancestry and your trying to deliver an inside joke to the cognescenti [spelling?].
Another dream dies a hard and painful death.
Taboo and tatto are the only two Polynesian woids [of which I'm aware] that have made it into the English language.
As I stated in my original post there are exceptions and you Tabu obviously qualify. I would still contend that even though several common nouns have been pointed out as commonly used names by Caucasian providers (and civvies alike) the use of adverbs and adjectives is still almost an exclusive domain of the ethnic ilk.
CC.
I've seen many a black provider and can't say that any of their names follow this pattern, but a rose by any other name...
Ciara is going to name herself.
Buffalo
Maybe Upstate
'brandy' and 'summer'...! LOL!
talk about a cowinkidink, the last two girls I saw were named Summer and Brandy also!
...I'm white but my handle used to be Rhapsody Luethor...but people kept mispelling it so I shortened it to "Lex".
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How in the hell did you get Lex out of Rhapsody?
Such indictments over a simple observation. Maybe I should conclude anti-semitism because I can't find a provider named "Gezunta Moid".
CC.
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There is a best selling book called Freakonomics that addresses this very topic and goes into why names go in and out of favor with the public.
It looks at social and economic factors, but doesn't address the hobby -- just names in general and what 'groups' use favor what type of names.
It's a great read.
How about"gey Gezunta" for a gay provider?
(For those not up on yiddish, "gey gezunta" means: "go in health"; when spoken with an attitude though, it means: "drop dead", sort of like "Have a nice day" means "Go fuck yourself" in certain parts of LA.
This person is just make a point about names. Caucasian providers use ridiculous names too. Starr, Diamond, Bunny, Kitty, Paris, Brandy, Candy, Peaches, Champagne, and on and on. Am I racist because I think Bunny is a stupid name for a white girl? Or Ebony is overdone for a black girl?
Let's face it. There ARE differences between races. Polictal correctness has caused our society to ignore these differences and attempt to make our country into a homeogeneous pot of something it's not.
For a really interesting name study divided among race, check out the book Freakonomics. I can say with confidence that the authors are not racist. They simply developed a sociological study based upon the names of black children and the names of white children.
Let these meshuggenehs make a gantseh megillah out of a simple comment. Gezunta moid; your alter kocker awaits.
CC.
BTW, you don't know an adjective from an adverb from a noun-- but I know what you mean.
Sometime back in our language, or some other language, our proper names started out as nouns for things.
Here's some common names along with their original meanings:
Charles- man
Phyllis- leaf
William- helmut/protector
Peter- rock
Susan- lily
Nicholas- Victorious
David- Beloved
Thomas- Twin
Stanley- Stone
Richard- Righteous King
Virginia- (goes without saying)
Jennifer- white
All of these were once nouns, either in English, or from the language they came from. Let's just say that they were poetic metaphors applied to people permanently. For the ones that started out Anglo-Saxon, the language has changed, and they no longer mean anything outside of the people who have them as names. In some cultures it's a stronger trend to just come up with endless variations on previous names ad infinitum. Italian is like this. Every name in that language is probably a variation of the two dozen words. But if you go back far enough, they were words in the language, probably in Latin.
I could conjecture as to why African Americans feel that they shouldn't use the well-worn prefab names. It probably does have to do with the fact that they feel that they are different, and would rather look to things in the world for new metaphors to describe their children rather than accept the bleached out terms that society at large gives them, whose meaning society has forgotten.
More extreme, you also have names that are either derived from African languages, or are made up for the musical sound of the syllables. Such as Leteesha or C'Tasi.
Europeans cultures have done all this before; we're just not too strong with it now.
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