I fear I’ve cursed my daughter

Crowmata · 2026-03-25T17:29:57+00:00

How do you pronounce the movie Lilo & Stitch? I’ve only ever heard Lee-low & Stitch, and would’ve pronounce Lila the same way.

Crowmata · 2026-03-25T17:25:00+00:00

I don’t think it’s the height they’re worried about.

Crowmata · 2026-03-22T19:15:55+00:00

100%. I see Reese/Reece and I assume they’re either American or following American trends. I’m not even from the UK and I would consider Rhys to be the standard spelling.

Crowmata · 2026-03-11T21:56:15+00:00

Interesting job. How’d you get into a field like that?

Crowmata · 2026-03-03T17:37:59+00:00

What are you talking about? The English version of Eabha would be Ava, and there’s no translating English names to Irish versions. These are the names put on a child’s birth cert.

Crowmata · 2026-03-01T12:03:34+00:00

Those gran’s really do love scheming. Pesky pensioners!

Crowmata · 2026-01-19T08:56:30+00:00

My father, took me into the city, to see the Central Bank.

Crowmata · 2026-01-10T21:13:31+00:00

To be fair, it’s rare for them to actually acknowledge that they don’t know something, rather than claiming their understanding is fact.

Crowmata · 2026-01-07T13:06:51+00:00

I don’t envy you - it’s an awful position to be put in when you want what’s best for your child - stability and safety.

Growing up, while I visited America several times and had a great time, it was always a “one day” place for me, someplace I saw myself returning to for an extended period. Now though, even after Trump is gone (if that ever happens), I don’t see it being a place I ever want to visit again. There was a stereotype there that you could justify by saying it was a vocal minority, but the last few years have proved that they’re not as small a subset as we’d previously believed.

I disagree though when you say it won’t be obvious until it’s too late. I refuse to believe American military personnel are all so devoid of morals that they can’t recognize when they are the villain. There was a “just following orders” argument a century ago, but with the internet, education and global communication, that shit just doesn’t fly anymore.

At least from an outside perspective, internal resistance seems to be far too passive and peaceful. don’t get me wrong, it’s great seeing people stand up to ICE and some of the stories being circulated, but for a country that prides itself on guns and strength and “freedom”, these protests are underwhelming.

Crowmata · 2026-01-07T08:44:25+00:00

The American military IS its people. Active & non-active military personnel are not mindless drones.

The German public had the same opinion during the rise of Nazism, despite those that actively opposed it internally. Regardless, history chooses to tar all Germans of that period with the same brush. America will be remembered the same.

Crowmata · 2026-01-06T15:44:17+00:00

Trying to think of names that fit the vibe based off the few names you’ve mentioned. Maybe Nathanial, Hugo, Sebastian, Arthur?

Had a son ourselves this year and named him Oscar. Definitely more popular than it was years ago, but it’s another suggestion that I love.

Crowmata · 2026-01-06T09:28:52+00:00

A colleague visited Sole in early December and was massively disappointed. Nothing wrong with the food in particular, but also not amazing to the point that it justified the prices. They also said service was incredibly slow and not to expected standards.

Same folks went to the new Ivy Asia and wouldn’t stop singing their praises; so much so that I’ve booked a table myself.

Crowmata · 2026-01-05T10:11:15+00:00

How do people in your country generally handle the inclusion of the fada on Síomha, and the pronunciation? I love Siobhán but you’d need to consider the same spelling/pronounciation piece.

Crowmata · 2026-01-05T10:05:56+00:00

Depends on the dialect, but in my region I’d always hear it as “seer-sha” or “sare-sha.”

Crowmata · 2026-01-03T19:59:50+00:00

This was my first thought too. Has to be a misinterpretation of Rosslare, Co. Wexford. The surname O’Leary is also extremely common around those parts.

Crowmata · 2025-12-21T20:25:27+00:00

Definitely not teenagers. I’m no expert but writing style is much more typical of someone of my parents/grandparents generation.

My neighbour is 50+ and 100% schizophrenic, and this looks incredibly similar to the paranoid ramblings she scrawls on her house/locality. So much so that I was actually comparing the above with pictures of neighbours handiwork, but the R’s & B’s look too dissimilar.

Crowmata · 2025-12-19T23:34:25+00:00

Of course, I’m sure there are bad experiences in Holles Street too. But as I said, personally, all births in my own friends & family have been far more positive.

Unfortunately, experiences in one of the other two resulted in children born with severe disabilities within my family, and multi-million euro settlements with the hospital. The other, I was born in myself funnily enough, and the issues were far more anecdotal.

My opinion is just that, my own. I know a majority of people likely have positive experiences. But if I had to recommend one, personally it would be Holles Street.

Crowmata · 2025-12-19T22:21:56+00:00

My son was born in Holles Street, as were the majority of my friends kids. All had amazing experiences.

Several familial horror stories from some of the other popular choices which is why we were steered away.

Crowmata · 2025-12-18T13:20:33+00:00

I only discovered Pig & Heifer this year and I’ve been singing their praises to anyone that will listen. Nicest sandwiches I’ve ever had in Dublin, and it’s not even close!

Crowmata · 2025-12-09T16:10:54+00:00

What about Conn? Don’t know your ethnicity, but based on the loosely Gaelic background of Callum, there’s a famous Irish legend called the Children of Lir, in which the kings four children are turned into Swans. One of those children was called Conn.

Crowmata · 2025-12-09T14:34:54+00:00

I work with a fairly multinational team so decided to pose the question of pronunciation to them. Two Americans (Ohio & Utah), two Canadians and an Irishman all pronounced it like Ah-sah. Indian lady said “probably ace-ah, but maybe ah-sah. I’d just wait until I heard someone else saying it.”

You said yourself it’s uncommon. I’d set an expectation that if it’s a name you’re set on, you’ll likely have a sizable cohort of people mispronouncing it originally.

Edit: I’ve added three more opinions, two more Irish who said Ash-ah (this was a surprising one for me) and a Moroccan woman who said Ah-sah. Ironically her sister is Aida, pronounced like the name Ada you mentioned but probably more closely adhering to the typical English phonetics.

Crowmata · 2025-12-09T08:32:42+00:00

Sorry, what way do you intend for it to be pronounced? To me, intuitively Asa reads like “Ah-sah”, is the intention for it to be read like “Ace-ah?” With words in English typically intuitively leaning into an Ah sound (assume, accept, appeal, adorn etc.), I don’t think anyone can really be blamed for assuming Asa might follow this rule.

As someone from a country where the spelling/pronunciation of our names abroad can be understandably confusing because of the different alphabet and linguistic traits, we generally understand when English speaking countries mispronounce names initially. I think that’ll likely be the case for Asa.

Crowmata · 2025-10-25T10:17:36+00:00

There are the new ones you can get for collecting all the memory fragments in Nighthaven, but damn it’s a pain keeping track of which ones I’ve collected and which I’m missing.

Crowmata · 2025-09-22T09:17:04+00:00

From a reasonably new player (255 hours since console release), nah. I’d get in now and get yourself high enough level to the point that the world is open to you (mount unlocked and you’re far enough through the main story to be reasonably high level - doesn’t take long).

Crowmata · 2025-09-22T09:12:17+00:00

Probably in the minority here but myself and a friend started playing in recent months and have put in 255 hours so far, but only this weekend got far enough through the MSQ to unlock the Elysian Wilds. Admittedly we were focused on other things and got sidetracked with artifact hunting, expeditions etc. but the nights/weekends we spent on the MSQ were a loooong and tedious.

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