Forget it Mammele! (Btw, I like your name!)
We can have a (virtual) coffee together if you like, outside the Coffee Room, but if you continue to express your views here you will be persona non grata, and that’s just the sad reality.
I understand you totally, explaining that you can find all the Yiddish names you love by “p’sukim l”shmos nashim” listed to be said at the end of Shmone Esrei. But apparently nobody else does. Yiddish is a language that kept us distinct from goyim in galus, and became a holy part of “shelo shinu ess lishonam,”- a holy part of our being “metzuyanim” in this long dark galus, which was part of what led to our redemption in Mitzrayim. English does not keep us separate or distinct in any way. Au contraire, it strengthens our bond with foreign culture and society in a way that is perfectly clear to anyone looking. So, no, Mark, is not just as good as Mendel. And to LAB, I don’t feel comfortable naming families, but is “Ettil” a Biblical name?
But my agreeing with you, Mammele, does not make your views acceptable or more palatable to others around here. So from now on I”ll just call you Ima. And you may address me by my own name which is, thankfully, English.