Steve Simmons writes:
So are there family names as well as patronymics? If so, what is Vlads
patronymic? I don't recall his fathers name being mentioned.
I assume that Noish-pa is using 'patronymic' as a synonym for
'surname'. I haven't seen any patronymic forms in any Easterner
names, so i don't think his meaning was strict.
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{Reagan's} presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to
Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown. After the
trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith
in humanity." I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties.
- Garry Trudeau