FN + LN

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

i've been sort-of-watching a long Biography episode about Johnny
Depp.  one of his biographers provides a great many comments about
Depp and his work -- always referring to him as "Johnny Depp", never
"Johnny" or "Depp".  (almost everyone else uses "Johnny" all the
time, though the narrator seems to use FN + LN at the beginning of a
new segment of the show and in summary statements.)  very awkward
effect, as though the guy was introducing Depp into the discourse
again and again.

arnold

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