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When I lived in Santa Fe, NM, for one summer I lived on Camino sin Nombre. So what was the name of that street?
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When I lived in Santa Fe, NM, for one summer I lived on Camino sin Nombre. So what was the name of that street? Road to nowhere?
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Did the Nameless Street have numbers?
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When I lived in Santa Fe, NM, for one summer I lived on Camino sin Nombre. So what was the name of that street? Hmmm, seems a bit oxymoronic (Is that a word? It got red-lined...) "Street Without a Name" or "Nameless Street". There is at least one English counterpart, Nameless Street in Manning, Iowa. Street names can be so bizarre, as can town names. Faldage, you know a mess of weirdly named towns around NY state, such as Busti, Hoosick, and Middlesex, but one of my favorites is Scaggsville, Maryland. If anyone lives in these towns, rest assured, I am laughing with you, not at you.... :0)
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Or she would be laughing with you if you were laughing.
What? You're not laughing? Well, that's hardly twosleepy's fault now, is it?
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I once lived on a street named Dingle Bingle Hill Terrace. (honest!) The worst part was that the whole street was only 4 houses long.
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There is a place in Tasmania called Nowhere Else: Google Maps Nowhere Else It's on Nowhere Else Rd, and near Lake Nowhere Else. Where else would it be?
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We are individually named by another or others, most often by our parents, before we get the opportunity to name ourselves. To go by a self-authored name, in a one-name situation, is to go without a name that one was named by a person or persons other than oneself; so, an anonym could be regarded as a name of one sense that is other than and hence without a name of another sense. Or that's my current defense of a word I've taken a liking to.
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To insist that anonym can mean only without a name is to fall prey to the etymological fallacy.
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