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/lit/, the time has come. I'm having a bouncing baby boy. After over a decade on /lit/ I've come to trust you guys. What's a good literary name for a young boy?

>pic related
Albert is one I'm considering.

>> No.17667068

Formerly Chuck.

>> No.17667075
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17667075

>>17667063
Albert Friedrich
Ernest William
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

>> No.17667081

>>17667063
Albert is nice
Alexander

>> No.17667105

>>17667063
Hamnet

Only true friends of Brother Speare will understand.

>> No.17667111

>>17667063
Marcel

>> No.17667113

>>17667075
Can't be Ernest, sorry. I associate with that awful series of movies from the 90s. Friedrich is nice though.

>>17667081
Generally don't care for Greek names as we have no connection there. Thank you though.

>> No.17667779

>>17667063
Cedric

>>17667113
Where do you have a connection? Northern Europe, Romantic, Anglo?

>> No.17667875

Adolf

>> No.17667896

>>17667063
Sokrates

>> No.17667902

>>17667105
How tf did I never make the Ulysses connection until now?! Boys... im a tard

>> No.17667911

Platostein

>> No.17667914

>>17667063
Gonna use the silent t?

>> No.17667955

>>17667063
Luffy

>> No.17668023

>>17667902
I don't know. Because that's where I learned that tidbit from. You might be a bad reader, or you need to at least reread that book, because I doubt anything truly made sense to you when you read it.

>> No.17668058

>>17667911
Molybdenumstein

>> No.17668070

>>17667779
Anglo. But also a fan of French things being America's first ally and all that.

>> No.17668077

Mohamed

>> No.17668081

>>17667914
Of course. I wouldn't do dishonor to a language not to pronounce it properly.

>> No.17668083

>>17668070
I've always thought Algernon is a nice Anglo name, but it might be a bit of a mouthful for some people.

>> No.17668096

>>17667063
Funky Winkerbean or James Tiberius

>> No.17668098

Ulysses, that's what I'm gonna use at least.

>> No.17668117

>>17667063
Eustace (Formerly Chuck’s

>> No.17668124

>>17668023
I didn't draw the parallels between Bloom and Shakespeare, you tard. I knew Shakespeare had a kid he lost. Dur.

>> No.17668130

>>17668098
Absolutely based name

>> No.17668136

>>17668098
>>17668130

>Not Finnegan

Holy cringe

>> No.17668148

>>17668136
Don't much care for Irish names, although I do like Finnegan as a name. Very lively.

>> No.17668232

>>17668136
I'm talking about that Latinized version of Odysseus not that James Joyce degenerate freak shit.

>> No.17668264

>>17667063
Sneed

>> No.17668274

>>17667063
John Sebastian

>> No.17668299

>>17667063
>not naming children traditional ethnic names or the names of grandparents

bruh

>> No.17668350

>>17668299
which of the "literary names" under consideration are not also "traditional ethnic names"?

>> No.17668369

>>17668124
fuck u

>> No.17668411

>>17668299
>names of grandparents
This is for poors

>> No.17668462

>>17668299
I have no connection to my grandparents or my ethnicity or my culture so I wouldn't know what to name

>> No.17668499

>>17668350
it's supposed to be your own ethnicity...

>> No.17668603

>>17667063
Sue

>> No.17668641

>>17668299
This, /lit/ gives the impression of manchildren treating literary figures like a funko pop collection. It'd be almost as bad as naming a child after a star wars character.

>> No.17668657

>>17668641
*Naming your kid after an author is almost as bad as...

>> No.17668707

Albert is a good recipe for bullying. I would bully a kid called "albert"

>> No.17668717

>>17668369
I didn't mean it anon, I'm sorry. I just was upset you thought I didn't read Ulysses closely

>> No.17669725

>>17667063
Tom O' Bedlam

>> No.17669740

>>17667063
Franz
Hans
Frederick
Fritz
Based

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>>17668657
>Not naming your kid James Tolstoy Dostoevsky Nabokov Proust Marquez Homer Plato Marcus (Last Name)

>> No.17670024

>>17668096
Over here, Funky!

>> No.17670043

Demetrius
Alonzo
Deshawntel

>> No.17670078
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Nathaniel
Benjamin
Thomas
George
Johnathan
Alexander
Samuel

Non-Americans need not apply

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>>17670078
>Unironically American

>> No.17670167

>>17667063
Peregrine

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>>17667063
Arthur

>> No.17670241

Tristram

>> No.17670249

>>17670078
>american
>half the names a jewish
it checks out

>> No.17670291

>>17668070
Here are some French literary name:
Julien
Joachim
François
Charles
Guillaume
Louis
Jean
Pierre
Jacques

>> No.17670430

Melvin

>> No.17670432

>>17667063
Hogg

>> No.17670459

>>17668070
Well, if you're fan of French, then maybe consider Arsène. If I remember right, it comes from a word meaning "virile".

>> No.17670667

Oedipus

>> No.17670773

>>17667063
>After over a decade on /lit/ I've come to trust you guys.
Is this how people who have children are? Small wonder the world is going to shit.

Name him Pépin.

>> No.17671071

>>17667063
Alexander
Xavier
Frederick
Philip

>> No.17671752

>>17667063
Magnus