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Re: CHAT: "Nik"names :) (was Re: Middle Initials)

From:jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 21, 2001, 2:05
Yoon Ha Lee sikayal:

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote: > > > <rant> JESSE spelled such is *always* a boy's name, thank you very much, > > and my name is NOT spelled Jessi, Jessie, Jessy, or whatever other horrible > > mangulation you might be able to come up with. </rant> > > > > Sorry--the spelling of my name is one of my pet peeves, and you just sort > > of reminded me of it. No harm done, and we are even. > > (timidly raising hand from the back) I could've sworn I knew *one* > female Jesse back in Texas. But I haven't misspelled your name--yet.
Years of having my name misspelled have made me very sensitive about this issue. And while I know that there are other Jesses out there, I have never known another Jesse well, so I feel a sort of posessiveness about the name. All those other "Jesse" people are imposters, I tell you . . . I'm the *real* one, the *only* one! ;o) Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu "It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young." -G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ Conlanger code: CLI> l%p+++ cS:R:N:H a++ y n18d:6 X+++ A-- E-- L-- N2.5 Idmp k++ ia-- p+ m++ o+++ P d++ b++ Yivríndil