I can't find the journal article for it but here is a regular article on baby names (if you didn't know already): http://www.livescience.com/6569-good-bad-baby-names-long-lasting-effects.html
It's probably my bias for English sounds but Nampula sounds awful. It sounds like a name from Africa/indigenous SA; not that there is anything bad with that per se. The -la gives it a feminine touch but the beginning has a combination of nasal&plosive sounds make itmore masculine/awful. Besides onomatopoeias and perhaps a select few words, you don't see the -mp- sequence very often in English. Even in mandarin though, you don't see a nasal+plosive sequence. ---------- The smile in panel 1 is great. Also I guess you could call your daughter 'Nampula' without naming her that.
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I can't find the journal article for it but here is a regular article on baby names (if you didn't know already):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.livescience.com/6569-good-bad-baby-names-long-lasting-effects.html
It's probably my bias for English sounds but Nampula sounds awful. It sounds like a name from Africa/indigenous SA; not that there is anything bad with that per se. The -la gives it a feminine touch but the beginning has a combination of nasal&plosive sounds make itmore masculine/awful. Besides onomatopoeias and perhaps a select few words, you don't see the -mp- sequence very often in English. Even in mandarin though, you don't see a nasal+plosive sequence.
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The smile in panel 1 is great.
Also I guess you could call your daughter 'Nampula' without naming her that.
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