Ledasha redux

[Charles Doyle]

Pedantic note:  As folklorists use the term (and define the genre) "legend," the presence or degree of "fictionality" is not a consideration. A legend is a narrative in oral tradition, set in the recent or historical past, that is told as if believed to be true.

--Charlie



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>Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:38:44 -0300
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>No, wait. I swear. It happened to my wife's cousin's brother's friend and he
>swears he overheard it in a supermarket...
>Heh, actually, this is guaranteed first hand, horse's mouth, my very own
>friend named Noné.
>DAD
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>From: "David A. Daniel" <dad at POKERWIZ.COM>
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>>The first of these blogs mentions that while punctuation in names is
>>on the
>>rise, it would be stripped out of data bases, so that Le-a would be
>>listed
>>simply as Lea. This no-punctuation or accents policy was the bane of
>>a
>>friend of mine as far back as the 1960's. Her first name was Noné
>>(accent on
>>the e and pronounced no-nay). But when dealing with anything
>>involving a
>>form or a db, it would of course show as First Name: None. Try
>>spending your
>>life explaining that one to bureaucrats...
>>DAD
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>The only thing distinguishing that from the urban legend names is
>the fact the story is told first, or second, hand. Otherwise, I'd be
>inclined to doubt not even one parent wouldn't foresee no end
>of problems with the name None'.
>(The family name was Above', was it?)
>dh
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