[lit-ideas] The Name of the Name
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:50:14 EDT
In a message dated 9/10/2010 1:16:15 P.M., ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Chuck Mumper died, as did Alvin "Pee Wee" Null of Pocatello. He is
survived by Shirley Mervyn. James Edward Williams of Ishpeming, Mich.
is survived by Cindy. (Arrangements by Pollock Randall). Benno Britz
owned Big B Market. Lester Bean was a librarian. Brent Cresswell
owned Willamette Petsitters. Storrs Waterman was a chemist. Dot-Am
Sliger was a social worker. Jane Parker first married a Wilhelmi and
then a Wooley. Her grandson was Kauai Namauu. The guy who wrote to
the paper to complain about Obama's "numerous self-confessed left-wing
socialist advisers" is Ron Haybittle. Maggie Wilderotter is CEO of
Frontier Communications.
----
It is interesting to focus on Ritchie on 'name'. For a philosopher, a
'name' is a name is a name. R. Paul may expand on why a name is not a noun is
not a word (plain). What's in a NAME, really?
---- I'll identify types of names in Ritchie's "Taking notes on names"
"Chuck Mumper died,"
----- Chuck is of course Charles. Carolus.
Mump is the verb, mumper one who mumps.
"Die" is a name of death.
"as did Alvin "Pee Wee" Null of Pocatello."
--- "pee", qua verb, is onomatopoetic. It is a name, but it is also a verb.
"Pocatello" seems like a diminutive. Pocatellus, but I may be wrong.
"He is
survived by Shirley Mervyn."
--- These names sound Celtic: Mervyn does. Shirley sounds Anglo-Saxon, and
I wouldn't be surprised if the -ley in ShirLEY means 'like' -- and that
"Shir" is also meaningful.
" James Edward Williams of Ishpeming, Mich.
is survived by Cindy. (Arrangements by Pollock Randall)."
---- In Native American, "Ishpeming" is possibly meaningful. IF it is
Native American. Many of the Native American place names (toponyms) were
meaningful to the Native Americans -- and thus DESCRIPTIONS, rather than names.
Many place names are VERY descriptive. "London" is not -- but "Roma" is,
since it indicates that she (Roma is feminine in Italian) was founded by
Romulus (otherwise it would be called REMA, if it had been founded by
Romulus's
brother, Remus, rather).
---
And so on.
Speranza--------Bordighera
"Benno Britz
owned Big B Market. Lester Bean was a librarian. Brent Cresswell
owned Willamette Petsitters. Storrs Waterman was a chemist. Dot-Am
Sliger was a social worker. Jane Parker first married a Wilhelmi and
then a Wooley. Her grandson was Kauai Namauu. The guy who wrote to
the paper to complain about Obama's "numerous self-confessed left-wing
socialist advisers" is Ron Haybittle. Maggie Wilderotter is CEO of
Frontier Communications.
Roma: from Rommylos (Romulus), son of Ascanius and founder of the city;
from Rumon or Rumen, archaic name of Tiber. It has the same root of the
Greek verb ῥέω (rhèo) and of the Latin verb ruo, which both mean "flow";[36]
from the Etruscan word ruma, whose root is *rum-, "teat", with possible
reference either to the totem wolf that adopted and suckled the cognately
named twins Romulus and Remus, or to the shape of Palatine and Aventine hills;
from the Greek word ῤώμη (rhòme), which means strength;[37]
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