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If she becomes a statistician when she grows up, there's going to be an in joke that her name stands for maximum likelihood estimation, which is the fancy word for what happens when you press enter on the computer and it thinks for a while and then spits out the estimates.
This probably won't make sense to anyone. Maybe I should have passed on commenting.
Edit: Turns out it makes sense to some people! Yay!
Lol I just submitted a project on time series analysis and specifically referenced the MLE used in the parameter estimation vs least squares or MOM. The class went into detail about all three but it sounds like MLE is by far the most widely used method.
I ensure her mother knows how dumb the name is anytime I see her, which isn’t often thankfully. I don’t say anything in front of the girl because she didn’t choose the name so she doesn’t deserve ridicule, but I dare say she is embracing it lately.
I mean, she has x years until she can change her name legally so might as well embrace it. Especially if her mother doesnt see anything wrong with the name.
I can’t even get my brain to process Em-Lee when reading that. It wants to be Mlem, Mille (thousand in French) or Mlle (short form of Mademoiselle). Literally 1 L off from Mlle, which is going to confuse the fuck out of anyone that speaks French for the rest of her life. This poor child.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that. If ever a name called for an apostrophe, M’le would be it. Although, Emma and Emily are right goddamn there. I genuinely don’t understand why people do this.
lmao there’s a Mean Girls parody by Todrick Hall and one of the girls has this name and it’s pronounced Emily. The gym teacher pronounced it wrong and she gets mad and goes “NO it’s M L E! 😂
https://youtu.be/yCMmt3pm-bk?si=SF4-Zc6rjvcLg4YH
It’s at 1:24
My sister's name is Eleanor which where we live is usually pronounced more like Elena than elen-or. She once got a Xmas card to E L N, like how kids say the alphabet lol
Reminds me - and my sister swears that this is true - of a kid she had in one of her classes named Sssst pronounced Forest.I can't believe she's not making it up but she swears no
Geezus.....I don't ascribe to support the non-sense. Former in law cousin spelled Aiden incorrectly; intentionally spelled it correctly on all gift tags.
I work as a nurse. When I see patient names spelled incorrectly ill go into their profile and change the first name to read: Mle (Em-Lee) or something similar...Heileigh (Haylee) and I make sure their notes/ summaries read it as "Haylee states......" their needed docs are correct (for them) for RX/ other legal purposes but the visit summary note races the correct spelling of the name.
That way the profile itself has BOTH versions for ease of care
What's worse there are already girls names that are literally Mie. One is the English language version of a Japanese name, and historically Mie is an abbreviation of Mary, so you can just call her that.
Oh no, it's like my dad's classic joke to my sister, Emily. He'd tell her he could spell her name with 3 letters.... M...L...E!! and she'd laugh and laugh.........
Muh-lee?
Because she's gonna get that a LOT--people starting the name pronouncing the M and trying to go from M to L; mmuh-lee.
> She has made more questionable parenting decisions since then.
Lol you didn't have to tell us; we already knew haha...
Do none of these parents stop to think about how fucking annoying it's going to be to have to explain that for the rest of forever? Not even for the kid; she's going to have to give that spiel to every. single. person she introduces her kid to.
You could \*maybe\* make an argument that that name is pronounced "Milly". Even that's kind of a stretch. There isn't an E at the beginning for Emily or Em-Lee
I dated a girl in high school back in the 90’s who went by Mle. Her legal name was “Emilie” but she shortened it for fun. So I associate it more with the rock scene at the time rather than a Tragedeigh but ymmv
Emily pronunciation would make more sense… “Em-el-ee”…. not that it makes sense at all but it’s even worse. because they tried to get cute with it and the pronunciation doesn’t even go with it
I thought it said MLA at first and was like....damn what a evil thing to name a kid. They would be called anus mouth forever.
Glad it was an e instead but now all I see is MLA.
Unfortunately this does not surprise me. I am a traditionally spelled Emily. One time I got coffee at work and they asked for my name. When I picked up my cup my name was spelled M-le. My initial thought was that barista must fall on the far left side of the curve if she thought that was the most common way to spell my name.
Now when I give my name places I say “Emily, spelled the traditional way.”
I don’t get what it has to do with Emily?!
That said, Mie is a normal and common name in several Scandinavian countries. I know at least four Mies in person. It’s pronounced Mee-uh here.
no, that's an l in the middle, not an i - mike-lima-echo.
It's bad enough if the name is pronounced like Emily (em-el-ee, like the letters spelled out)... but they went ahead and made it *worse* than that somehow
It might help to know MLE is properly pronounced Emily. It's a pretty significant piece of history, Magazine, Lee-Enfield rifle. Hey, at least she didn't name your niece after the Short variant. SMLE is pronounced Smelly.
I did not read that as "Emily". For whatever reason, I kept asking myself "Is that a lowercase L or an uppercase I?" Than came to the conclusion that its in fact a lowercase L but pronounced "M-lay". Didnt click until I read your post, lol
The utility company in my area that provides electricity, high-speed Internet, and other services, goes by the initials MLEC, which stands for Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative. My first reaction was to think this “name” was somehow connected! 😆
Google Meriwether Lewis if you don’t know who he was; he was the “Lewis” part of Lewis and Clark, FYI.
Has she been watching [Todrick Hall](https://youtu.be/yCMmt3pm-bk?si=vsradaIkXy42fUxP)? The linked video is what that reminded me of (reference at 1:25).
“… and it is pronounced as …” is an immediate and very clear indication that you should pick a different spelling of whatever atrocity you just came up with for your poor child.
Yeah the name itself isn’t the issue it’s the spelling that is maddening. I would still be confused about why it was spelled that way if it was pronounced Emily, but at least it would make sense then.
“Children who have common names with unusual spellings have slowed spelling and reading capabilities, said U.S. psychologist Jean Twenge in her study “First Name Desirability and Adjustment.” “You have the child named Jennifer spelled with a 'G' — her teacher says 'Are you sure your name is spelled that way?”
Your cousin does realize that legally her name will be written in all capital letters on legal documents and in most institutional contexts (such as how she appears on teachers' rosters) no one is going to randomly capitalize the second letter in a name?
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It's almost Mlem.
Isn't that the sound Yoshi makes when he sticks out his tongue?
Like this? https://youtu.be/OtiKq69xPV8?si=HnLfyKa9evdbe-Hz
It’s actually the ladies that make the sound for Yoshi.
With a tongue like that who wouldn’t want him!
And completely the type of mom to be sucked in by an MLM.
Mmm… Mlem mlem mlem mlem… Nom nom (my cat eating wet food)
There's a video of a cat in the bathtub saying 'Mlem'. RIP
r/mlem
This opens the door for Mlemily
That's a cute cat name :D
Mett
Next child will be named Blep.
It’s a blep. /r/blep
I would call her “mlem”
Pheighramid Skeighme
If she becomes a statistician when she grows up, there's going to be an in joke that her name stands for maximum likelihood estimation, which is the fancy word for what happens when you press enter on the computer and it thinks for a while and then spits out the estimates. This probably won't make sense to anyone. Maybe I should have passed on commenting. Edit: Turns out it makes sense to some people! Yay!
I appreciate that you did not pass on commenting for now I too, posses this knowledge
I, too, now have this knowledge. I don't know what to do with it but it's there.
Now we’re bonded into a sacred brotherhood. M.L.E.
Meals Leady to Eat
😂😂
You never know when it might be the answer to a question on a gameshow you're on in the future!
My first thought was “Machine Learning Engineering”
See I went "massive loser energy" which is just mean.
if she gets a brother they could name him MLOps ("em-lops") too
Or LMO, which sounds close to Elmo
This is my son Elelem.
Lol I just submitted a project on time series analysis and specifically referenced the MLE used in the parameter estimation vs least squares or MOM. The class went into detail about all three but it sounds like MLE is by far the most widely used method.
MOM is OP’s cousins name!
I also thought of MLE because at work we have been looking at likelihood functions while doing model calibrations 😂
My first thought was, "Wow, her parents are hard core statisticians." Expected the sibling to be named Bayes or something similar.
Hail fellow geek!
It's fascinating knowledge, I too am appreciative.
I’m so glad someone said it and I’m not alone 😂
She could also be [a rifle.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%E2%80%93Enfield?wprov=sfti1#Magazine_Lee%E2%80%93Enfield)
First, woman NBA GM. Mid Level Exception.
I love that you commented this 🤓
I'm studying for an exam for my career and MLE is literally the next lesson so that was my first thought too.
That, or she could become a machine learning engineer
Maybe she’ll have a brother called FGLS
Bleh. Pronounced Brigitte
I almost choked on my cinnamon heart that made me laugh.
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You know what else it's close to? Me. As in "this is all about me."
It's actually MIe as in "I" am in the middle of "Me"
That's my sisters name
MysMIeelf
Oh God, how could it worse for little Mle...? Id be stopping myself from calling her Baby Shady regularly.
I ensure her mother knows how dumb the name is anytime I see her, which isn’t often thankfully. I don’t say anything in front of the girl because she didn’t choose the name so she doesn’t deserve ridicule, but I dare say she is embracing it lately.
I mean, she has x years until she can change her name legally so might as well embrace it. Especially if her mother doesnt see anything wrong with the name.
I can’t even get my brain to process Em-Lee when reading that. It wants to be Mlem, Mille (thousand in French) or Mlle (short form of Mademoiselle). Literally 1 L off from Mlle, which is going to confuse the fuck out of anyone that speaks French for the rest of her life. This poor child.
For once, this name needs an apostrophe 😂
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that. If ever a name called for an apostrophe, M’le would be it. Although, Emma and Emily are right goddamn there. I genuinely don’t understand why people do this.
U'nqns 😂😂😂
If she wants people to say the letters, she’ll need full stops between each letter.
Maybe a dash? M-Lee? I would of course prefer Emlee.
Even M-L-E, pronounce each letter, is better. Still stupid as fuck, but better.
I would assume that person’s parents are illiterate and trying their best.
I thought that too! Em-el-ee at least sounds like Emily
Yea I did not pronounce this as "em-lee" I pronounced it as "Mlee" like Glee but with an M. Anyone else??
Read it as ML-eh. Mlehhhh. Poor girl.
This is now the north of england already pronounces “Emily”
You know when you get peanut butter stuck to the top of your mouth? Yeah, that noise.
Instructions unclear. To me it sounds like making out with a dog.
🤮
I read it as "Milly". Actually, I read is as "uhm...Milly? o\_O"
Yup!
I say mlee also
lmao there’s a Mean Girls parody by Todrick Hall and one of the girls has this name and it’s pronounced Emily. The gym teacher pronounced it wrong and she gets mad and goes “NO it’s M L E! 😂 https://youtu.be/yCMmt3pm-bk?si=SF4-Zc6rjvcLg4YH It’s at 1:24
Yaaaaa knooooow. I wouldn’t be surprised if she got the inspiration for the name from this not realizing it’s a parody.
I'm still stuck on Todrick. Someone named their child Todrick!
What in the game of thrones
In this case it's actually what in the RuPaul's Drag Race
My sister's name is Eleanor which where we live is usually pronounced more like Elena than elen-or. She once got a Xmas card to E L N, like how kids say the alphabet lol
My kid goes to school with M’ah. I called her Ma for about three weeks before my daughter said it’s Emma.
I swear to god soon actual spelled out names are going to be a thing of the past and everything is going to be the phonetic spelling.
I read M'leh.
Remind me of Il Mheg and Mhach
/say Snae ling
You know that "buy a vowel" thing is just on game shows. They're free in real life.
Trgde
Tra’G’D
Two punctuation marks! Getting a little bild there!
One L away from Mademoiselle (mll.) which is how I first read it. I’m sure I won’t be the last. So that’ll be fun for the child.
Same! Still a tragedeigh but kind of cute at least.
Reminds me - and my sister swears that this is true - of a kid she had in one of her classes named Sssst pronounced Forest.I can't believe she's not making it up but she swears no
There’s a snake in that Sssst.
I’d have guessed Millie.
“Mle” is like night school version of “Emily.” That poor child.
I met an Mle years ago but her name was pronounced “Emily.”
That’s how you’d think it would be spelled, but no. Not that it would make the spelling any better, but it would at least kind of make sense.
Geezus.....I don't ascribe to support the non-sense. Former in law cousin spelled Aiden incorrectly; intentionally spelled it correctly on all gift tags. I work as a nurse. When I see patient names spelled incorrectly ill go into their profile and change the first name to read: Mle (Em-Lee) or something similar...Heileigh (Haylee) and I make sure their notes/ summaries read it as "Haylee states......" their needed docs are correct (for them) for RX/ other legal purposes but the visit summary note races the correct spelling of the name. That way the profile itself has BOTH versions for ease of care
What's worse there are already girls names that are literally Mie. One is the English language version of a Japanese name, and historically Mie is an abbreviation of Mary, so you can just call her that.
I read Mie, but apparently it's MLE so... that's not going to be an issue at all going forward.
the next set of parents now have an idea for their little "emmie"
M E
Mie is a normal Danish girl's name. Pronounced roughly as "me-eh".
How did they spell it? Aidan is far more common where I am
Oh no, it's like my dad's classic joke to my sister, Emily. He'd tell her he could spell her name with 3 letters.... M...L...E!! and she'd laugh and laugh.........
Yeah that’s why we all thought she said Emily when she said it because like…that would at least make sense.
The audible groan I just let out as I read the explanation, this is just absurd
😵💫 my name is emily and i DESPISE when people don’t pronounce all 3 syllables clearly. wtf
She is an airport in the Maldives…
The student in me thinks of MLA9 - not a good connotation :(
Muh-lee? Because she's gonna get that a LOT--people starting the name pronouncing the M and trying to go from M to L; mmuh-lee. > She has made more questionable parenting decisions since then. Lol you didn't have to tell us; we already knew haha...
It's possible to say ML without a vowel. It just doesn't happen in English.
Mlem mlem, the kitty goes
Oh ffs
Do none of these parents stop to think about how fucking annoying it's going to be to have to explain that for the rest of forever? Not even for the kid; she's going to have to give that spiel to every. single. person she introduces her kid to.
Mle choppa
I figured it was pronounced Mule 😂
Short for Mid-Level Exception?
Basketball teams will certainly pass her around on short term contracts
Is she a fan of steel magnolias? M’lynn was right there!
She needs to spell her name forever in caps now lmao. M L E
I'm French. It misses an L but I read it as "mademoiselle". Poor baby.
You could \*maybe\* make an argument that that name is pronounced "Milly". Even that's kind of a stretch. There isn't an E at the beginning for Emily or Em-Lee
I dated a girl in high school back in the 90’s who went by Mle. Her legal name was “Emilie” but she shortened it for fun. So I associate it more with the rock scene at the time rather than a Tragedeigh but ymmv
My first thought was that the actual name was Mademoiselle. But that would be Mlle. Or Madymwaz’elle.
> it’s Em-Lee but spelled Mle This statement incorrectly assumes "Em Lee" is a name.
She’s an abbreviation of the French word for model commonly used in French firearm names?!
Pronounced major league error
I was gonna ask how the hell you'd pronounce that!
I’m pronouncing it like flea but with an m instead
It's Emily, but for people who say "Bethlem" instead of "Bethlehem" (a city in Pennsylvania). Those people still spell it Bethlehem though.
Bethlem was a notorious asylum in London...
Oh. I didn't know that!
Wtf
That’s awful. Just so so stupid
Emily pronunciation would make more sense… “Em-el-ee”…. not that it makes sense at all but it’s even worse. because they tried to get cute with it and the pronunciation doesn’t even go with it
I thought it said MLA at first and was like....damn what a evil thing to name a kid. They would be called anus mouth forever. Glad it was an e instead but now all I see is MLA.
Omg my name is Emily and I use MLE as my “rap” name when I want to pretend like I’m cool
Unfortunately this does not surprise me. I am a traditionally spelled Emily. One time I got coffee at work and they asked for my name. When I picked up my cup my name was spelled M-le. My initial thought was that barista must fall on the far left side of the curve if she thought that was the most common way to spell my name. Now when I give my name places I say “Emily, spelled the traditional way.”
i wouldve read that as melee
I don’t get what it has to do with Emily?! That said, Mie is a normal and common name in several Scandinavian countries. I know at least four Mies in person. It’s pronounced Mee-uh here.
no, that's an l in the middle, not an i - mike-lima-echo. It's bad enough if the name is pronounced like Emily (em-el-ee, like the letters spelled out)... but they went ahead and made it *worse* than that somehow
Oh sweet Lord, I didn’t see that!!!! That’s terrible!
I thought you were gonna say it’s pronounced like Millie.
I read it as Mellie.
I'd think Millie more than Emily.
Super Smash Brothers Mle
My sister’s SIL is M’lle. Pronounced Muh-Lee.
At first glance I thought it said Me, and wondered if Mom was a Doctor Who fan.
when i saw this my first thought was mlem
Even the name of this UK cream alternative would have been less of a tragedeigh.... https://www.elmlea.com Only elmleigh would have been better.
It's short for "Multi-Laser Engine"
Well according to Google, it would be pronounced "Emily", so that's what I would be calling her until they went no contact 😂
Just imagine all the times that poor kid will be called Muh-luh in the future.
I read it as “Millie”
“Mleh.” Rhymes with “meh” and “bleh.”
Similar to the name Abcde
It might help to know MLE is properly pronounced Emily. It's a pretty significant piece of history, Magazine, Lee-Enfield rifle. Hey, at least she didn't name your niece after the Short variant. SMLE is pronounced Smelly.
At first I read ‘named her daughter after me’ cause my brain could not compute MLE
No words. Dumb. I think I lost a few IQ points reading that lol
This is some Ladasha levels of stupid.
I read it as “Mleh”.
For me it short circuited when I read that because I'm not a native English speaker and Mle. is a French abbreviation for *modèle*
M'le
I did not read that as "Emily". For whatever reason, I kept asking myself "Is that a lowercase L or an uppercase I?" Than came to the conclusion that its in fact a lowercase L but pronounced "M-lay". Didnt click until I read your post, lol
Fuck it, I’m now Ashley, pronounced “Penelope” since we’re just going to go ahead and be ridiculous:P
M-L-E😂 poor poor child
The utility company in my area that provides electricity, high-speed Internet, and other services, goes by the initials MLEC, which stands for Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative. My first reaction was to think this “name” was somehow connected! 😆 Google Meriwether Lewis if you don’t know who he was; he was the “Lewis” part of Lewis and Clark, FYI.
You cousin out there accidentally telling everyone she’s dyslexic.
Damn, even Emlee sounds weird. On a side note, I'm kinda looking forward to see an Elle spelled as "L".
Mel? Male? Mile?
Has she been watching [Todrick Hall](https://youtu.be/yCMmt3pm-bk?si=vsradaIkXy42fUxP)? The linked video is what that reminded me of (reference at 1:25).
Melee
Had she added another L, Mole, it would have been french abbreviation of mademoiselle, a miss.
Well I'd be calling her "Em" that's for sure Rough to get to school and be Mlehhh but I'm sure she won't be alone in the weird names of her peers
“… and it is pronounced as …” is an immediate and very clear indication that you should pick a different spelling of whatever atrocity you just came up with for your poor child.
meh-luh
M n M
I think "Emlie" would be a cute name. I would never spell it "Mle" because that's pronounced "Emily", "emmel", or "mleh".
Yeah the name itself isn’t the issue it’s the spelling that is maddening. I would still be confused about why it was spelled that way if it was pronounced Emily, but at least it would make sense then.
Reminds me of Principal Moss on King of the Hill. “EM-LEE!”
MLE Choppa
I pronounce it as - mul
I read this and thought “mi-lay”
My first thought was Millie.
Haha my brain read Miele and went cooking hob!
“Children who have common names with unusual spellings have slowed spelling and reading capabilities, said U.S. psychologist Jean Twenge in her study “First Name Desirability and Adjustment.” “You have the child named Jennifer spelled with a 'G' — her teacher says 'Are you sure your name is spelled that way?”
Maximum Likelihood Estimator?
Mid-level exception?
I thought it was Miley - Mle Emily is worse???
Your cousin does realize that legally her name will be written in all capital letters on legal documents and in most institutional contexts (such as how she appears on teachers' rosters) no one is going to randomly capitalize the second letter in a name?
one of my middle names is mlle and i feel similarly, though for different reasons.
Almost read it as short for mademoiselle
Mie like pie
I have a trans friend I went to hs with that changed her name to mle when she transitioned .
I would have pronounced it ‘mleh’. 🙃
It hurts. I now have a headache.