This is not about weapons or ships or combat or any other of those hard
subjects I'm usually commenting, it's about last names.
On real-world terra there is a profusion of last names in many languages.
Most of them means something but most of the time the name is treated like a
label which only meaning comes from what it indicates. The names Smith,
King, and Thatcher comes to mind, because most people don't think "Aha, one
that makes horseshoes, a monarch, and one that fixes roofs." when they hear
those names.
It seems that, if given time, titles (even job-related) transforms into names.
Witness all the 'Baron' and 'Kahn' running around as some kind of proof of this.
My question is: Does this trend continue? Will the last names 'Chairman',
'Manager' and 'President' make their appearance some time?
- -bertil-
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"C News and then die"