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::::...how can you determine whether a made-up name sounds masculine or feminine? Yeah, names like John or David are obviously masculine and names like Emma or Jennifer are obviously feminine, but how do you determine if "Ephemera" is masculine or feminine? "Ephemer" doesn't sound any more or any less masculine or feminine to me. --[[User:Elfdemon|Elfdemon]] ([[User talk:Elfdemon|talk]]) 05:51, 2 July 2016 (UTC) | ::::...how can you determine whether a made-up name sounds masculine or feminine? Yeah, names like John or David are obviously masculine and names like Emma or Jennifer are obviously feminine, but how do you determine if "Ephemera" is masculine or feminine? "Ephemer" doesn't sound any more or any less masculine or feminine to me. --[[User:Elfdemon|Elfdemon]] ([[User talk:Elfdemon|talk]]) 05:51, 2 July 2016 (UTC) | ||
:::::Not to mention that whether it's masculine or not is hardly relevant. Sora's not a traditionally masculine sounding name in english, and in fact, people who have heard the name before may be able to name more women named Sora than men. Sadly, the name's Ephemer, and we gotta deal with it. --[[Special:Contributions/68.226.218.27|68.226.218.27]] 16:48, 2 July 2016 (UTC) | :::::Not to mention that whether it's masculine or not is hardly relevant. Sora's not a traditionally masculine sounding name in english, and in fact, people who have heard the name before may be able to name more women named Sora than men. Sadly, the name's Ephemer, and we gotta deal with it. --[[Special:Contributions/68.226.218.27|68.226.218.27]] 16:48, 2 July 2016 (UTC) | ||
::::::True, but Sora is Japanese, compared to Ephemera which is an English word adapted from either Latin or Greek. And I personally prefer Ephemer to Ephemera. In my opinion, I think it sounds better as a boy's name. [[User:Rex Ronald Rilander|Rex Ronald Rilander]] ([[User talk:Rex Ronald Rilander|talk]]) 00:08, 3 July 2016 (UTC) | |||
:::::It's not a "made-up name", not according to the actual page. Ephemera is a real word, it's just not used as a name often, if ever. It doesn't sound masculine to me for two reasons. Firstly, because not a lot of male names end with the letter "a" in English to my knowledge. And secondly because Ephemera sounds like effeminate, which literally means unmanly. [[User:Rex Ronald Rilander|Rex Ronald Rilander]] ([[User talk:Rex Ronald Rilander|talk]]) 00:08, 3 July 2016 (UTC) | |||