Re: new Klingon spelling

On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 11:43  PM, Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 11:45  PM, Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>> I'm aware of the etymology of my name and am rather proud of it, too.
>> All of my other siblings have Hebrew or Romance names (Pieter, Steven,
>> Yolanda, Monique); I'm the only one with a genuine Germanic given name
>> to go with the genuine Germanic surname! But it's fun to take
>> advantage
>> of the homophony between my name and the etymologically unrelated
>> knife
>> word, too.
>> Dirk
>
> I thought Steven/Stephen/Stefan/Steaphan/etc. are Greek.  'stephanos'
> meaning "crown" or something like that.
Yes, it is Greek; thanks for the correction. I guess I was thinking
"biblical" instead. But I'm still the only Germanically named of my
siblings!

Dirk
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