12-30-2007, 10:23 PM
1.) Names
Names are interesting. For a long time Kat had been fascinated by names. It started because she wanted to know what her name meant. Then, she wanted to know what the name’s of her family and friends meant. When she began writing stories, she needed names that couldn’t be easily mistaken for people in her life. For a while, she wanted to change her name and she wondered if all people at one point or another wanted to do the same. For example, what about Momo? Did she sometimes resent sharing a name whose word in everyday language meant “peach”? She guessed that it was a good thing the Japanese had the honorific endings. Otherwise, people might confuse those with names such as Momo as the object that the word identified and not the actual human being. She supposed that was how names got started in the first place. After all, without proper names, it could become awfully confusing without them. She half wondered what the cave-men called each other since there was no “civilized” language during that age. She would have hated to be called Ugg or Ugga. Of course, if everyone was some form of Ugg or Ugga, then she probably wouldn’t have minded as much. Yes, names are indeed interesting.
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