Re: fresh meat <-------

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> En réponse à Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>:
>
> >
> > Question: I noticed that people whose names start with "Christ-" are
> > generally considered to be friendly, outgoing people, who invite
> > co-conlangers at their houses (the Grandsire variety)
>
> That would be me :))) .
>
>  and tell them
> > how
> > funny they are (the Carter-type). Is this just so in  Dutch, or are
> > their
> > other natlangs where this happens as well? How about in people's
> > conlangs?
> >
>
> Well, it seems it works in French too :))) . Funny coincidence, at noon today
> we had such a conversation :))) . We were three French people talking together,
> two of us called Christophe, and we were wondering about the similarities
> between the two Christophe. We discovered that we were both absolutely not
> pickheaded ;))))))))))) (is that the emoticon for irony BTW?) and that never
> any impure thoughts crossed our minds, it was always the other ones who
> interpreted our words wrongly ;)))) .
";-)" or ";)" works for irony and sarcasm, from my experience.

The trends Maarten mentioned, and Christophe's, too, hold up in English
from my experience. I have a friend named Christopher and a friend named
Christian, and they're both very friendly, outgoing people.

To relate to the conlang part of the question, in Ajuk I'm not sure.
Christians are a very small group amongst the Ajuk, so except in a big
city it's rare that anyone would ever meet someone with a name beginning
in Kerist- (except for foreigners, maybe.)

--
Robert

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