schevec written:
>> It was not my mailer, I typed that sentence myself. I thought all
>> names start with capitals, simply because that is the convention for
>> names. Why do you want yours with a lower case first letter?
>
>The name shevek comes from a book (the dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin). It
>is the name of a character there. It's about an anarchistic (but
>organised) planet. Because I would like to live in such a world and
>because he's pretty much like me anyway, I chose it to be my nickname.
>They have a different language and the names are generated by computer. My
>own interpretation is that the silly capital/non-capital-thing was removed
>as well, since the language was designed by people.
>There is someone else on the net I know of called Shevek. He's a coder,
>too. Like this there still is a difference between us (I'm sure there are
>more differences :) )
>Anyway, this is pretty off topic, so I'll start my real reply now ;)
Do you want to know where Grauw (with capital!) comes from???
:)
~Grauw
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