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September 19, 2003
Googling for baby names
Another take on baby naming. David Brittan in the MIT Technology Review recommends using the google image search engine at images.google.com to enter baby names to see what visual associations those names reveal.
The true test of a name is, and always will be, how other people respond to it. And, unless that name is unique, people’s response will depend heavily on their experience of other people who bear the same name. So, in selecting a name, you want to know what associations it is likely to trigger in somebody’s brain. That means you need to get a good look at some real-life Jennifers, Dimitris, Ezekiels, Maximilians, Kazuos, Tiffanys, or LaToyas, and see what fires in your brain. You want to stand them in a row and size them up—give them the white-glove test. And now you can.I checked out "elise" and found a lot of images of a gorgeous sports car and a lot of healthy looking cheerful gals. Yet another useful way to use google.
(No, I do not have baby on the brain.)
Posted by elise on September 19, 2003 to Random
