Re: Personal Conjugation based on Closeness

H. S. Teoh scripsit:

> The reason for all this complication is because you aren't supposed to
> call people by their names if they're in an older generation; you *have*
> to call them by the proper term. Quite often, the term itself becomes
> their "name" as far as you're concerned.
It's common (almost obligatory) for Jewish boys to be named, at least in
their Hebrew names, after their dead relatives, frequently their grandfathers
(my friend Joe Zitt is Yosef ben Hirsh ben Yosef ben Hirsh ben Yosef etc.
as far back as anyone can go).

There's a story about a couple that named their son Zalman, after his
great-grandfather Zeyde.  (Zeyde = "Grandfather".)

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