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I love lots of names.
I love chinese names because they mean something.
I know a guy named "di" which means "little brother" and also means "earth"
I've always loved greek names, too, even more so since I read the AWAD notes concerning the origin of some of the patronymics.
My dad (well, step-father, but the only father I've ever had) is an elder (or maybe a chief, I'm not much into cultural stuff) in a tribe of Cherokees and his name is Daniel Owl Talker Green.
My favorites, though, Indian names - like from India. I love those names especially, as they sound like poems. Sometimes I hear one and I just keep reciting it to myself like that guy in "The Stand" who kept saying "M-O-O-N, that spells moon." It's surpizes me that people can actually have such cool names.
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Go away, Keiva. You are not wanted here.
You raped my identity with your faux handle 'AphonicRants.'
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I agree, name that mean something, or refer to something can be wonderful. i like being able to play on my name and call my self of troy (i have also been queenie, thequeen, and queen4theday.., well, i never claimed to be modest!)
but many other societies do treat names differently.
my brother in law's family name means something like pathway or road. my neice's given name means dewdrops.. her name pathway (of)dewdrops.. what a beautiful name! how mundane helen is.
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Dear of troy: How mundane to have been named for the most beautiful woman in the world.
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Yes, but her beauty was the cause of strife, and war and unhappiness.
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The person known as Keiva, who recently posted on this thread, was banned for flaming. He forced his way back into this forum by implied threats of legal action against Anu Garg, the founder of AWAD. This same person has also been known to post under the names AphonicRants, KeivaCarpal.
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Dear of troy: Of course the tragedy was really caused by the gods' interference in
human affairs. Actually the whole Troy myth is stupid. Troy was indeed a rich prize,
but it was destroyed many times for its richness, not because of just one woman.
Homer or his predecessors had to make a story. It is absurd to suggest that such
a war was fought just for one woman, who would have been old enough that her
beauty would have been long gone before the war was over. Many a man has died,
and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
But Helen is still a beautiful name. Not so good in my family. When something got
lost in the church, and people asked how to get it back, they got told to go to
Helen Hunt for it. An aunt of mine by that name died very young, from falling out
of a chair. Or so the story went. I suspect some acute medical problem did not
get detected, in spite of fact her father was a doctor. Lab tests then were very
primitive in a small town, over a hundred ;years ago.
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I like names; I think I will call myself a comiconomencularist (is that right??). My maiden name was Wyles, which implies something like catching fish with a trap (ie wily), so my full name meant Defender of Mankind (Alexandra) living in the woods (Lee) catching fish. Very impressive.
Someone mentioned 'Quisling' to me as also meaning traitor, but I think it must be American because I don't get it - can anyone explain?
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Someone mentioned 'Quisling' to me as also meaning traitor, but I think it must be American because I don't get it - can anyone explain?
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Vidkun+Quislingk
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Dear FF: Early in WWII, Hitler invaded Norway. A Norwegian named Quisling
supported Hitler and became wartime ruler of Norway.
Quisling, Vidkun (1887-1945), Norwegian politician, whose collaboration with the Nazis during World War II made his name synonymous with traitor. Quisling aided Fridtjof Nansen on his humanitarian missions in the USSR and Armenia in 1922-25 and later served in the Norwegian legation in Moscow. Returning to Norway, he entered politics, voicing strong anti-Communist sentiments. He served as minister of defense (1931-33) in an Agrarian cabinet, but then bolted to found his own National Union, a Fascist party that received subsidies from Germany. At the time of the Nazi invasion of Norway in 1940, the German envoy tried unsuccessfully to have King Håkon accept Quisling as prime minister, and the National Union was subsequently declared the only legal party. The Germans finally installed Quisling as prime minister in 1942, and throughout the war he collaborated with the Nazis and tried to inject their principles and practices into Norwegian society. Largely responsible for the persecution of Norwegian Jews, he also introduced terrorist methods in dealing with those loyal to the king and the legal government in London. Arrested, tried, and sentenced by a Norwegian court after the war, Quisling was executed on October 24, 1945.
"Quisling, Vidkun," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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