On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:05:21 -0800, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote: > >> Do you refer to your father by name? > No, but I don't refer to my grandfather by first-name either, yet Vlad > clearly does. (Unless "Noish-pa" is some sort of Hungarian/Fenarian > endearment. That's certainly possible given that Kelly is the only person > who's greeted Noish-pa by name and he addressed him by his patronymic > rather than his given name.) I always assumed so. It looks a lot like "Grand-pa" to me. > Regardless, it seems a bit odd that Vlad has given us all kinds of > details about his father but never his given name. I discuss my parents without mentioning their names all the time. > It strikes me as being a way to depersonalize him and keep him at a > distance. I can sort of see that - but it is not uncommon at all to not use one's parents names when discussing them. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/