Re: Active and Passive please help.

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 14:28, you wrote:
> 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?
> 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...
I chose my own name when there was a significant change in my life,
because the one I was given at birth didn't fit me any more. It had
never fit well, but it didn't fit the new person *at all*.

My family, and officialdom, still use the old name, but I don't
perceive it as "me".

   Irina

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