PM 11's RULE! ;-) (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:49:59 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Prof Jake Messinger shaped the electrons to say...
>I like Brian's words better. And he has a real name. ;-)

One of the reasons I use it - philosophy. What makes 'Brian' any more
a real name than 'MegaZone'? They are just words, each is a name to
describe an object. In this case an individual human being. I've know
people with names like 'Morning Star' - and lets not forget Dweezel.
Is MegaZone any less of a name that those?

Or is it the Eurocentric paradigm that is pervasive that makes names that
don't fit the good old Anglo-Saxon mould sound weird, or makes them unreal?

I've had a lot of experience debating this...

In the end - if my mother can use it, I think everyone else can. I've
been waffling on the legal change for some time now, maybe I should just
go do it.

-MZ

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