Re: CHAT: "Mister" (WAS: Re: New Lang: Igassik)

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:53:46 +0930 Adrian Morgan
<morg0072@...> writes:
> Steg Belsky wrote, quoting Irina Rempt:
>
> > > Won't you have a title then to call you by, like "rabbi"?
> >
> > Exactly - which would be really weird!
> > Similar to what The Gray Wizard said,
> >
> > "Stephen" = me
> > "Mr. Belsky" = my father
> > "Rabbi Belsky" = ¿¿¿???
> >
> > So i can just anticipate it feeling at least somewhat
> disconcerting.
> I have a friend (Rob) whose nickname is Rabb/Rabbi.
>
> See the second-to-last (i.e. second oldest) entry in my guestbook:
> http://pub36.bravenet.com/guestbook/show.asp?usernum=3071318083&cpv=1
>
> --
> web.       | Here and there I like to preserve a few islands of
> sanity
> netyp.com/ | within the vast sea of absurdity which is my mind.
> member/    | After all, you can't survive as an eight foot tall
> dragon     | flesh eating dragon if you've got no concept of reality.
-

Cool....if you don't mind me starting something new, you could also call
him "rav" [rav], which is Hebrew for "rabbi" and sounds closer to the
English name Rob (at least in my dialect) than the first syllable of
"rabbi" does.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "salaam / `aleinu v`al kol ha`olam / salaam, salaam..."