Names
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- #2871 RE: (2868) Names by William Henry Timmins
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- - -- "C News and then die"