Re: Characters (was: Nice comment, Adam! (was: beautiful scripts))

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 October 2001 19:57, Andreas  Johansson wrote:
> > Herman Miller wrote:
>
> > >I often sidestep the issue of representing my name by adopting a
> > > name in the other language (Yietazai in Chispa, Talanor in
> > > Galtani Elvish, Khilnik in Tirelhat).
>
> I don't do that on principle, because I used to be a member of a
> conculture society that started with all the members masquerading as
> "ambassadors" of their cultures, and I didn't want any of that. I do
> use the names of roleplaying characters, though; Pariyal (which is
> the Denden translation of my first and middle names, "peace friend")
> and Raisse (also my alias on the NetHack newsgroup), but those are
> not representations of the Real Me, they're aliases with their own
> personality.
I think this kind of sounds fun, bieng hte ambassador of a con-culture.
Why didn't you dig it?


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