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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Dave Tallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davetallman@msn.com">davetallman@msn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><pre><br>Blood is not a good example. We happen to know the exact circumstances of his naming, and Maytera Rose broke the regular convention by calling him "Bloody" after her difficult (perhaps C-section) childbirth. Since that was an adjective and not a noun it was soon converted to Blood by everyone except Rose herself.<br>
<br>It looks like the mother has the most say about the name. Another example is Nettle, named so by her mother out of dislike for her child.<br><br></pre><br>_______________________________________________<br></blockquote>
<div>Did she actually call him "Bloody"? I thought that was just her pet name for him.</div>
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<div>On a tangent, I wonder why Viron has this naming system, while all the other towns don't? </div>
<div>Modulo the issue of what's being translated as against reported, the other towns have naming conventions which look like they come from Urth.</div>
<div>(Including white-bread Anglo names, in the case of two of the mercenaries in SS.)</div>
<div>Are we to assume that Urth had a region with the Vironese conventions? Is there anywhere like that in the real world? </div>
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