LL-L "Names" 2005.03.04 (05) [E]

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From: Ruth & Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2005.03.03 (11) [E]

Dear Ben

Subject: Intelligibility

> "Naming practices..."

> Mark, what do you mean by naming practices in the Bantu languages? Do
> different areas name their children differently?

    Not quite: When a woman marries out of her family, in some communities,
or rather venacular groups, certain names become taboo to her. The given
name of her father-in-law, for example, may not be uttered, nor any other
thing sounding like that, & if his name is based on or similar to a common
artifact or phenomenon, it may not be used again. Her children grow up
knowing or using a circumlocution for that , whatever it is, & so down the
generations. Those communicating with them must berforce use the same. It
all adds up.

    Another peculiarity, a courtesy this time, in which a venacular group
refrains from using a person's name, as a gesture of honour. Once again it
is a parade of circumlocutions, & if that name is drawn from or similar to
another in the working lexicon, within a generation it is gone. Some
linguistically related dialects, I am informed, have significantly different
vocabularies.

Yrs, Mark

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