Re: CHAT: weird names
| From: | J. Barefoot <ataiyu@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 6, 1999, 1:33 |
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kyan Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> sa:
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>"J. Barefoot" wrote:
> > The common diminuitive form "Ataiyu" is "Tala."
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>Hmm, how'd "Tala" come from "Ataiyu"?
I don't know. How'd "Sally" come from "Sarah"? I decided naming was fertile
ground for irregularity, like diminuitives and genitive forms of one's
mother's surname. It was just a nice-sounding simplification that could be
somehow connected with those sounds.
Jennifer
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