[lit-ideas] "Must A Name Mean Something?"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:04:13 EDT
In a message dated 4/6/2009 6:36:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
When I was living in Seattle, I knew this Hispanic guy that everyone called
"George". I thought that odd until I realized that his name was Jorge.
----
Asks Alice to Humpty Dumpty.
"Well, yes; it tells you what shape you are."
Of course Greek _georgias_ is a common name, means 'farmer'. It _is_ related
to 'country' (as in 'country matters', etc.). Hence "Georgics", i.e. poem of
bucolic beauty.
Now "Lewis" is more of a Germanic thing. I think it means 'warrior'.
Why "Jorge Luis" Borges was thus named is sort of easy to explain. His
father was "Jorge Borges", a laywer. Jorge Borges's mother was English, so that
may explain the "Jorge", I haven't checked. He was born in the 1870s, in Buenos
Aires.
"Borges" itself is, I was told, a Jewish surname -- of Portuguese immediate
origin.
----
O. T. O. H., there's Zuleika Dobson.
(I'm currently reading "The Genius of Lancaster" -- the programme of a
current exhibition).
Cheers,
JL
-- "When I'm bored, I leaf through Debrett's, just to amuse
myself at the Christian names these lords endow their offspring."
Wodehouse.
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