Complex sentence: An Armenian fortune teller had foretold her that a successful career lay ahead but she would have to choose a name starting with the letter "N" though the name Nadia was finally chosen because it was "exotic-sounding".
Split into simpler sentences: An Armenian fortune teller had foretold that a successful career lay ahead but she would have to choose a name starting with the letter "N". She chose the name Nadia because it was "exotic-sounding".