Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)

Isaac A. Penzev scripsit:

> The only exception is Hungarian anthroponymy
> with its reversee order. It is easily explained by the fact that in
> the Hungarian language adjectives _always_ precede nouns they modify,
> and all Hungarian family names are treated as adjectives"
Long ago I read a science-fiction story about which I remember nothing
except that:

        1) it was set in a far-future America
        2) the hero's name was Tankers Jack
        3) this and other names were of the form "patronymic firstname"

Presumably Tankers Jack meant "Tanker's [son] Jack".

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He made the Legislature meet at one-horse       John Cowan
tank-towns out in the alfalfa belt, so that     jcowan@reutershealth.com
hardly nobody could get there and most of       http://www.reutershealth.com
the leaders would stay home and let him go      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
to work and do things as he pleased.    --Mencken, _Declaration of Independence_

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