Negative Nancies and other related musings (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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In cryptography, the canonical exchangers of plain-text and encoded
messages are simply Alice and Bob.  The Wikipedia article on "Alice and
Bob" may be useful, listing many other names which have designate roles
in specific situations.


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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Joel S. Berson
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 7:16 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Negative Nancies and other related musings
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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject:      Re: Negative Nancies and other related musings
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> Has no-one yet mentioned the ancient John Doe and Richard Roe (both
> b. 1768) , and their surprisingly two-generation more ancient
> ancestor Jane Doe (b. 1703)?
>
> Joel
>
> At 3/20/2010 08:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Both GI J's (not just the dolls) can be applied to individuals. "John
> Law"
> >(usu.) and "John Q. Public" personify groups.
> >
> >JL
> >
> >On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> > > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > > Poster:       Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
> > > Subject:      Re: Negative Nancies and other related musings
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> > > Unless you mean the dolls, how are the GI J's significantly less
> generic
> > > than John Law? -- and why not John Q. Public?
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> > > m a m
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