• Basic Writing questions is not a crit forum. All crits belong in Share Your Work

The name Flem?

indianroads

Wherever I go, there I am.
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Mar 4, 2017
Messages
2,372
Reaction score
230
Location
Colorado
Website
indianroads.net
Yeah, my character has light blue spikey hair (in my world having odd colored hair is normal)

LOL. These days blue hair is not odd. My 60 YO wife has blue hair, she thought she was being edgy... then I told her my grandmother did the same thing.
 

Norman Mjadwesch

vacuous eyes, will bark at shadows
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Mar 17, 2018
Messages
2,384
Reaction score
1,939
Location
Far Far Away
One of the TV networks here has a sports commentator called Damien Fleming and his co-hosts all call him by his nickname, which is Flem. To begin with I did associate it with phlegm but when you hear it enough times it becomes normal. And that’s with just the audio (there is only one word with that pronunciation); if it was in written form, i.e. “Flem” then perhaps that would remove some of the association, especially if used with enough frequency?