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

--I find my brother Christopher can be quite a twerp.
I think it's all perspective. c:

And I once was musing about naming a son Christian,
and someone shot back that that was cruel to do to the
kid because it placed a big moral burden on the child.

Speaking of which, my brother Chris and his twin
Christine were so named because my mom wanted to name
them as close to Jesus as possible without actually
doing it.  Anyone know why Jesus is not anathema for
Spanish-speakers?

Clint


--- Robert Hailman <robert@...> wrote:
> 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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