Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> >
> > And it breaks down to _koe_ "cow" and _voet_ "foot" too? But how in
> > the
> > blazing did a such family name arise?
> >
>
>Well, I would be happy to reply to you if this was a question. But this is
>purely an exteriorisation of your personal opinion towards such a name and
>an
>insult towards the family name of the person I want to spend my life with.
>I
>don't know if it was meant that way but if it wasn't then you should be
>more
>careful in what you are writing down: there is a difference between
>expressing
>genuine interest and expressing a negative opinion towards a family name.
>So
>you will understand that I'm not replying to the question itself, for as
>interesting as it may be.
I guess I used unnecessarily colourful language there, but I do have a hard
time reading what I wrote as expressing anything more sinister than
amazement. I certainly did not mean to express any negative (nor positive)
opinion about the name; merely surprise.

BTW, "exteriorization" is a nice lengthy word my dictionary won't recognize.
In context, it appears to be mean giving expression to something, but is
there a more specific definition.

                                                    Andreas

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