To speculate on the causes of Geekdom in our society is to ponder the quintessential question… Who Am I? In relation to the world at large, the answer is most often… I am (name). But what is a name when tied to a label and a function?
What is it that makes one person named Bob different from another Bob? Or more precise, is there an inflection in the tone of Bob 1′s name that is different then Bob 2′s name? If both are asked what their names are, will they say it the same way? Or does anyone other then myself really care?
What can I say words, names in particular, fascinate me. Growing up I had an uncommon name, or what had once been uncommon. I had heard it pronounced three separate ways, but only one of them was my name. The others where not right. But over the years I have seen a few women with my name as well as one horrible video game character. As I met more women with my name, and that horrible movie based off the video game, I noticed that it was always pronounced different… and that each woman was as protective of their own pronunciation as I was of mine.
OK so what was going to be a blog post about Geek Latin… has turned into something totally different. This, boys and girls, is what happens when you ask my over caffeinated mind to do one thing and it decides it wants to do something else. Yes, my mind has a mind of it’s own… it’s a wonder I get anything accomplished.
So I leave you with one last random thought. Next time you see a name that can have more then one pronunciation, ask… before someone says “There’s no one here by that name.”
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officespacejk Said:
on June 6, 2009 at 5:15 am
try growing up w/ a tag like jefferson…i learned the words “movin on up, to the eastside” at a very early age