Re: First report on Coní

Among members of my family, a common way to
distinguish between bearers of the same name is to
precede the first name by some sort of distinguishing
word or phrase, commonly a combination with another
name.  For example, we know multiple people named
Susan, so to talk about one particular Susan, we would
refer to her as "Adrian-and-Susan Susan", where Adrian
is her husband.  Another example is "David-and Johnny
David", where Johnny is David's brother.

It's rather uneconomical with syllables, but it's
definitely a system we use.

Rachel

--- Tristan <kesuari@...> wrote:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > The Tairezans place the personal name before the
> >family name. With friends and
> > family you use only the first name, in formal
> >situation the full name.
(...)
> > Since using a full name about someone you know
> >well when speaking to someone who also knows the
> >person well might be construed as unfriendlily
> >formal, it's more common to distinguish bearers of
> >the same personal name by adding nick-names
> >than to resort to full names (ie, you speak of
> "Bob Brown" and "Bob Green" as
> > "little Bob" and "big Bob", or whatever)
>
> Well, if you were doing that in Australia, you might
> call 'Bob Brown'
> 'Green Bob'---the leader of the Green party is
> (Senator, but titles are
> rarely used) Bob Brown.
>
> Tristan.
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