Re: CHAT: weird names, was Re: conlanging,the ultimate feminist subversion
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 3, 1999, 23:25 |
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Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
> I may be able to do this for other people if they can tell me what
> their name means in a language I understand.
Well, Nik is short for "Nicholas" which is Greek for "Victory of the
People", my middle name is Paul, which I forget what it means, and my
surname is Taylor which means "tailor", of course. :-)
--
"[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not
speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
William Caxton
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