Re: Opening

In article <46fdde99$0$53621$804603d3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx "Dan Goodman" writes:

Andrew Stephenson wrote:

Names carry with them vast amounts of information, about
a namebearer's culture (actual or pretended) if nothing else.

Not always. Sometimes the name is imposed by authorities
belonging to a different culture.

In which case the name carries information about the character's
history and that other culture, a contingency covered by the "if
nothing else" get-out sub-clause as well as those "or pretended"
legal weasel-words. <g> (BTW, no, I don't play a lawyer on TV.)
--
Andrew Stephenson

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