Re: Active and Passive please help.
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 13:28 |
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En réponse à Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>:
>
> Well, that depends on how you define names. Is a name something you
> are
> given at birth, and which you are stuck with for the rest of your life?
That's what it is, at least for me.
> Or
> is a name a label by which you call yourself? Ot is it the current
> label
> your environment uses to refer to you? People can have many names
> (official
> names, nick names, aliases etc.). I prefer the definition of a name as
> that
> by which you call yourself. In this case, the Spanish use of "se llamar"
> is
> not that illogical.
>
In my personal case, it isn't so. I never gave myself any name, and would be
quite unable to do so. Even the nom de plume I've used to sign some stories
I've written is no more than a kind of translation of my actual name (well,
more than that, but not enough to consider it a name given by myself). I'm just
unable to name the entity which I call "me", except by using this word "me"
(or "moi" :))) ), since I hardly know this entity...
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.
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