[ANSTHRLD] Needing a few name heralds

Tim McDaniel tmcd at panix.com
Tue Dec 3 21:00:19 PST 2013


On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, scat at cfl.rr.com <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, scat at cfl.rr.com <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org> wrote:
>>> J'ai beaucoup de livres sur l'anthroponomastique francaise.
>>
>> I haven't a clue about what "I have good shots of pounds over
>> man-eating franks" has to do with it.
>
> I presumed that anyone researching French names was literate in
> French.

I don't have the original request to hand, and I don't recall it.
I wouldn't expect it of the general submitter (though perhaps not of
the instant case): for example, how many people who want a "Viking"
name are literate in any Scandinavian language?

> My mindset was such that I did not realize that I had responded in
> French ...  I had thought that I was replying directly to Bordure;
> apparently, I wasn't. Mea culpa!

No, no, no need to apologize, I was just having fun by playing at
mangling the request!

Daniel Lindocollinum
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com



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