Ledasha redux

[Wilson Gray]

Well, sometimes, even the simplest, most obvious name can cause problems.

-Wilton, a.k.a. Winston, Weldon, Whitson, etc.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 5:38 PM -0300 10/13/09, David A. Daniel wrote:
>>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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> Not to be confused with Joshua, son of None.  Or son of [n^n], anyway.
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> LH
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>>We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there
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>>Doug Harris
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>>From: "David A. Daniel" <dad at POKERWIZ.COM>
>>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>Received: 10/13/2009 3:33:50 PM
>>Subject: Re: Ledasha redux
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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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