How does one pronounce Reneesme, anyway? Ren-es-me?
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I think I would be tempted to prounounce it "Mair-ee-soo".
eta Actually, I've been mentally pronouncing it to rhyme with "Release Me", which leads to the inevitable image of this Jacob Black (Is it Jacob? I've already forgotten) wooing her once she's a nubile young thing (for he has imprinted on her - they are SOULMATES from the moment of her BIRTH) by singing:
"Pleeeeeeeaaase Reneesme, let me go!"
My first thought was that it was Renee Esme, smushed together.
::cackling::
My first thought was that it was Renee Esme, smushed together.
That was mine, of course, Lillian has Esme as one of her middle names.
Thankfully, Renee is not the other one.
I haven't read Twilight but Reneesme looks like "Renee's me" to me. I figured maybe she was a distant relative of Sam I Am.
Evidently Utahns/Mormons are notorious for odd names, partly because of the emphasis on geneaology. Google 'Mormon Baby Names' for lists
The quintessential Utah name often has a French-sounding prefix such as Le-, La-, Ne-, or Va-. Often names appear to have genesis in the combined names of the parents--Veradeane or GlenDora, for example. Related is the practice of feminizing the father's name--as in Vonda (dad is Vaughan) or Danetta. Others, such as Snell or Houser, appear to be surnames called into service as first names.
Related is the curious tendency, more common in Utah than elsewhere, for men (women do not seem to do this) to use the first initial, then the full middle name as the given name, such as L. Flake Rogers, who ran for office in Utah County when we lived there. (Come on, you've noticed this habit among the general authorities of the LDS church!) Besides puzzling over why someone would want to be known as "Flake," it makes one wonder just what the "L" stands for.
Heh. Now she's writing RPF about Jesus Christ.
I have an ARC version of this that my friend who works for a bookstore gave me. I have yet to crack it open.
But I wouldn't just make ugly, badly spelled shit up, because I am not fourteen.
And methinks Fay has hit on the crux of the issue.
We're sure that Meyer isn't deliberately attempting to paint her clumsy-and-repressed-yet-awesomely-fabulous Mary Sue character as a teenaged twit with no common sense, right?
Reasonably sure.
But if it's on purpose, then it's a magnificent success.