Tachel, Adelle and other stupid couple names

[TabbyCool]

I know it's been going on for a long time here, but why do people feel the need to combine the names of people in couples so they can refer to them as though they were a single person? It might just be me, but I don't get the point and find it rather irritating.

Am I just being an old grump or does anyone else find it all a bit strange?

[Ryan]

Like all **** things apart from McDonald's and atomic bombs, it comes from America.

[Perry]

It just shows that people appreciate them as a couple it's only irritating if the name sounds ****. And I'm rather lazy so rather then writing Aden and Belle I just type Adelle. Its just a way to quicken things up like going down the freeway or using the microwave.

Like all **** things apart from McDonald's and atomic bombs, it comes from America.

Actually if we want to go back to where the use of blending words together to combine the meaning we go back to Lewis Carroll, an English author

[TachelHolden]

I know it's been going on for a long time here, but why do people feel the need to combine the names of people in couples so they can refer to them as though they were a single person? It might just be me, but I don't get the point and find it rather irritating.

Am I just being an old grump or does anyone else find it all a bit strange?

i don't find it strange i find it helpful saves time so you dont have to type both peoples names and its not a way of being lazy as most people now know rachel and tony for example as tachel so there isnt a problem

[whispered_envy]

Because we're not reffering to them as singular persons, we're referring to them as a couple...yeah it can be seen as lazy but I think it adds something extra to the couple, that we like them enough to give them their own special name.

[Miranda]

I do find it a bit annoying when I can't work out who the couple is or what their separate names are, especially people who have now left the series. But its harmless.

[TabbyCool]

If it shows that a couple is liked enough to have their own name, then why is it that only the couples from the last few years actually have these couple names? Some of the most popular couples in the show's history have never been referred to by names like these. Even going back a couple of years, couples like Robbie and Tasha, Sally and Brad, Sally and Flynn... I don't recall any of those couples having special names. Was there a special name for Ric and Mattie? I don't remember ever seeing it if there was!

[Frogg]

Was there a special name for Ric and Mattie? I don't remember ever seeing it if there was!

I thought it was Rattie???

[TabbyCool]

LOL

I was actually going to suggest Rattie, but as a joke!

Got a better one for Scott and Hayley though, Scaley, they always were pretty slimy so it works well!

[DinerLandlord]

I know it's been going on for a long time here, but why do people feel the need to combine the names of people in couples so they can refer to them as though they were a single person? It might just be me, but I don't get the point and find it rather irritating.

Am I just being an old grump or does anyone else find it all a bit strange?

I believe it all started in the early 2000's (2002, if I remember correctly), with the joyous union of one of Hollywood's most treasured couples, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, who henceforth became known as "Bennifer". Incredibly, their love did not last. Why? We'll never know. But their legacy remains with the joining of famous couples names in the media and in fictional couples on the small and big screen. The combining of two words like this is called a portmanteau, Bennifer being the mother of all celebrity portmanteaus, from which spawned such wonderful names as Brangelina, TomKat, Zanessa, etc. Since then almost every couple in Home And Away and on other shows has been given a portmanteau.