There's a close similarity of names on stones in early Arabia and the names on stones in a similar time period in early Britain.

There's got to be a great journal article on this!

The Collapse of the Key Bridge by [[Martha S. Jones]]

An American author who mainly wrote about racial themes. Coates names his book after his poem "Between The World And Me", which is about a Black man stumbling upon a lynching taking place and becoming incapacitated with fear, thus creating a barrier between him and the world. To know more about Richard Wright: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/richard-wright

His wife, Kenyatta Matthews.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/12620128861463

Proper names. These are the first three of eleven or twelve (depending on how you count them) proper names of prisoners in the chapter (i.e. not including Dante and Ulisse). Levi uses them to create a vivid, peopled scene, to underline the mix of nationalities in the camp, and to bear witness to his fellow prisoners, many now dead. Later in the chapter, ‘Primo’ appears as a proper name for one of only three times in the whole book.

(For other names in this sequence, see, for example, also here, here, or here, or click on the 'names' tag to see linked comments).*

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'Jean' is Jean Samuel, a young Frenchman from Alsace, who survived the camps and the Death Marches and was in contact with Levi after the war. In his 1976 Appendix to SQ, Levi relates:

‘È vivo, e sta bene, Jean, il “Pikolo” del canto di Ulisse: la sua famiglia era stata distrutta, ma si è sposato dopo il ritorno, ed ora ha due figli, e conduce una vita molto tranquilla come farmacista in una cittadina della provincia francese. Ci incontriamo talvolta in Italia, dove viene per le vacanze; altre volte sono andato io a trovarlo. Stranamente, ha dimenticato molto del suo anno di Monowitz: in lui prevalgono i ricordi atroci del viaggio di evacuazione, nel corso del quale ha visto morire di estenuazione tutti i suoi amici (fra questi era Alberto)’ (OC I, 294).

As noted here, Jean later wrote his own memoir, Il m’appelait Pikolo.

Levi would return to Jean and to this chapter, ‘Il canto di Ulisse’, re-reading and commenting on it, in his 1986 book I sommersi e i salvati, in the chapter ‘L'intellettuale ad Auschwitz’:

‘Rileggo dopo quarant’anni in Se questo è un uomo il capitolo Il canto di Ulisse: è uno dei pochi episodi la cui autenticità ho potuto verificare (è un’operazione rassicurante: a distanza di tempo, come ho detto nel primo capitolo, della propria memoria si può dubitare)’ (OC II, 1234).

RG

Levi returned on a handful of occasions elsewhere in his work to Dante’s Ulysses, for example in another text written at the same time in 1946, the poem ‘Ostjuden’ (‘Padri nostri di questa terra, | Mercanti di molteplice ingegno, | Savi arguti dalla molta prole | Che Dio seminò per il mondo | Come nei solchi Ulisse folle il sale’ (OC II, 690)) (for more on this, see also this annotation).

In fact, he was as much, if not more drawn to the Homeric figure of Odysseus, regularly evoking his intelligence, his powers of narration and speech, and of friendship. He includes a proud speech by Odysseus in his anthology of formative books, La ricercar delle radici (OC II, 27-29).

Another poem, Partigia (1981), mentions Ulisse as a nom de guerre of an anti-Fascist Resistance partisan (‘Dove siete, partigia di tutte le valli, | Tarzan, Riccio, Sparviero, Saetta, Ulisse?’, OC II, 722).

RG

Proper names. This Levi was also named in the chapters ‘Il viaggio’ and ‘Sul fondo’.

RG

Proper names. Both the other mentions of Levi’s first name in the book come in the final chapter, ‘Storia di dieci giorni’. All three, strangely, are spoken by French companions.

RG

Proper names. Alex was a key protagonist/antagonist in the previous chapter, ‘L’esame di chimica’.

RG

Proper names (also here and here. These are the first three of eleven or twelve (depending on how you count them) proper names of prisoners in the chapter (i.e. not including Dante and Ulisse). Levi uses them to create a vivid, peopled scene, to underline the mix of nationalities in the camp, and to bear witness to his fellow prisoners, many now dead. Later in the chapter, ‘Primo’ appears as a proper name for one of only three times in the whole book.

RG

Proper names. These are the first three of eleven or twelve (depending on how you count them) proper names of prisoners in the chapter (i.e. not including Dante and Ulisse). Levi uses them to create a vivid, peopled scene, to underline the mix of nationalities in the camp, and to bear witness to his fellow prisoners, many now dead. Later in the chapter, ‘Primo’ appears as a proper name for one of only three times in the whole book.

RG

Proper names. This Levi was also named in the chapters ‘Il viaggio’ and ‘Sul fondo’.

RG

Proper names. Both the other mentions of Levi’s first name in the book come in the final chapter, ‘Storia di dieci giorni’. All three, strangely, are spoken by French companions.

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Proper names. Alex was a key protagonist/antagonist in the previous chapter, ‘L’esame di chimica’.

RG

—Gildas, Chapter 26 of De excidio et conquestu Britanniae (On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain)

We don't have a specific date or exact location for the siege of Mount Badon, roughly in the 5th century, but Gildas writes about the battle within the timeframe of his own life, and thus places a timeframe on the original Arthur.

Gildas also writes about Ambrosius Aurelianus, who he identifies as having Roman heritage. Some scholars believe that this is another name for King Arthur.

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Is there any relation to the Mountbatten family from Battenberg in Hesse, Germany? (Unlikely due to distance, though Saxon invaders may have renamed a place location in Britain after a local Batten or Battenberg related name from their homeland.)

Or the location Mount Batten? Likely not, as the previously known How Stert in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England was renamed after Sir William Batten (c.1600-1667), MP and Surveyor of the Navy.

https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/post-it-notes/ideas/articles/make-the-leap-from-to-do-to-done-with-the-scrum-methodology/

"The Scrum method" described here, similar to the Kanban method, the Memindex method, tickler systems, or other card index as productivity systems, seems to be a productized name for selling Post-it Notes.

Scrum method consists of a project broken down into "story" rows with "to do" items in columns which progress along to "in process", "to verify", and finally "done".

Other productized names (particular to the note taking space): Antinet zettelkasten, Linking Your Thinking, Second Brain, etc.

Seeing this, I can't help but think about some of the ads from the early 1900s for filing cabinets and card indexes which had similar named methodologies for productivity, but which were also advertisements for purchasing the associated physical goods.

Examples: Shaw-Walker, Yawman & Erbe, etc.

Following volumes I and II (a and b) the editors of the TLL separated out the occurrence of proper names into a supplement, called the Onomasticon, which includes the words beginning with "C" and "D". Following D, they began leaving out proper names because their inclusion was slowing down the progress of the thesaurus and there are other resources like encyclopedias for discussion and inclusion of these. [24:48]

Google translate:

If a lady was often to be found at the bar, she was called “Miss Martini” behind closed doors.

Use by hotel staff of rich clientele

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Link to the idea of nominative determinism as somewhat related.

• Llyn Bochlwyd (lake gray cheek)
• Foel Fawr
• Coed Llugwy
• Cwm Cneifion

Erasure of culture

Memory and place names

"A nation which forgets its past has no future." - Winston Churchill (check quote and provenance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQ6XlG0MQ4

reply to: https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/zo96qs/sharing_the_works_of_frank_bisse/

I'm curious where you found the surname Bisse? Frank gives his name as Frank Antonson in his first video and uses it in places throughout some of the videos and references I've found. It's also the name used in this relatively good overview of his work: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2017/08/18/z-youtube-retired-humanities-teacher/553192001/. I know he used the pen name Wedge in the past, so perhaps Bisse is just another of his pen names?

I'm also curious where you've pulled the idea that "All videos have the numbering of the cards as the prefix in the video title." In 7.106.1 of 5 State of the School 2019, at the opening of the video he describes his numbering system: 7.106.1 is shorthand for 7th year, 106th day, video number 1. This seems to be a chronological numbering for tracking things and not a relational sort of numbering often seen in zettelkasten contexts. When describing his index cards he indicates that he hasn't opened or looked through them in decades. If someone finds more evidence of his use of cards, I'd love pointers to those videos.

This is almost pitched as a product with the brand name "The Notecard System".

neglecting the mechanical side of historiography

the mechanical side of historiography is a round about way of saying note taking using a card index or zettelkasten.

machine translation (Google)

Quite a few boxes have been created for just one book, Siegfried Kracauer's collections for his monograph on Jacques Offenbach, for example, the photo archive of the historian Reinhart Koselleck with sections of thousands of photos of equestrian monuments, for example, or the box by the Romanist Hans Robert Jauß, in which he wrote for his Habilitation dissertation bogged down medieval animal names and characteristics.

A zettelkasten need not be a lifetime practice and historically many were created for supporting a specific project or ultimate work. Examples can be seen in the work of both Robert Green and his former assistant Ryan Holiday who kept separate collections for each of their books, as well as those displayed at the German Literature Archive in Marbach (2013) including Siegfried Kracauer (for a monograph on Jacques Offenbach), Reinhart Koselleck (equestrian related photos), Hans Robert Jauß (a dissertation on medieval animal names and characteristics).

https://en.forum.saysomethingin.com/t/hills-and-mountains-in-welsh/36923

• twyn - hill(ock), mound, knoll, hummock, heap, peak, dune, molehill
• tyle - hill(ock) (with a suggestion of steepness)
• allt - hill(side), steep gradient, cliff, wooded slope
• bryn - hill, hillock, mountain
• gallt - slope, hill, cliff, rock, wooded hillside
• garth - mountain ridge, promontory hill, wooded slope
• rhiw - steep slope, hill(side) (more commonly used in the SW)
• bryncyn - hillock, knoll, tump, mound, heap
• poncen/ponc/poncyn - hillock, tump, knoll, rising ground (more commonly used in the N)
• trip - steep hill (relating to a road or path) (more commonly used in SE)
• banc - rising ground, hillock, ridge, slope
• moel - bare mountain, treeless hill, summit, rounded mountain
• mynydd - mountain, large hill
• ban (pl. bannau) - top, tip, summit, crest, peak, beacon, hill, mountain, bare hill

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-61864756

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Johnny

Not mentioned is the tradition of using common names with other job related nouns as a means of identifying people with careers. Eg: Johnny Butcher

see also: https://podcasts.apple.com/sn/podcast/episode-6-job-and-places-of-work/id274989284?i=1000366645645

Charles is obviously a family name (Charles Musgrove, Mary's husband; Charles Musgrove, Mary's son; Charles Hayter and one can presume Charles Musgrove senior, Mary's father in law). Names were often reused - Austen makes fun of it in the first chapter "all the Marys and Elizabeths".

Glad I'm not the only one...

Depending on my particular mood, I'll call mine "Konrad" after Gessner, "Beatrice" after Webb, or "Bruce" (a quirky hat tip to The West Wing S7 E2: "His name is Bruce. He's a flight attendant on Aer Lingus. They've got a connecting hub out of Hamburg. You know, at first it was long walks along the Reeperbahn...")

https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/w0x1m6/give_your_antinet_a_pen_name/

Her name is an onomatopoeia for a sharp and sudden, obtrusive sound, similar to how she imposes herself onto people like trying to convert Mrs. Verinder

Another instance of a name reflecting the traits or role of a person. English last names tend to reflect the occupation of the family, i.e. Fletcher as a last name typically comes from family that had something to do with arrowsmithing or archery.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-pagan-gods-that-still-exist-in-israeli-city-names-1.8924898?v=1647845941967

Cities in Israel named after Semitic gods of the ancient Near East.

Jerusalem was likely originally Ir Shalem ('The City of Shalem') because the central shrine was dedicated to the Canaanite god Shalem, aka Salem, the personification of the Evening Star.

Shahar, the twin brother of Shalem, was the personification of the Morning Star and was presumably the tutelary god of Zareth-Shahar. This town is in modern day central Jordan and was mentioned in Joshua 13:19.

While the original Zareth-Shahar didn't survive into modernity, another town dedicated to the same god may have existed on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee at a site known by the Arabic name for the morning star. A kibbutz named Ayelet HaShachar was built there after 1915. Ayelet HaShachar is a poetic biblical term for the Morning Star (Psalms 22:1).

Jericho may have taken it's name from the tutelary god Yareakh, the moon god.

Similarly the site Beit Yarekh may attest to that moon god being worshiped there as well.

The sun god Shemesh may have created the eponymous names for cities Beth-Shemesh ('House of Shemesh', Joshua 15:10), En-Shemesh ('Spring of Shemesh", Joshua 15:7), and Ir-Shemesh ('City of Shemesh", Joshua 19:41). The modern day city Beit Shemesh was established in 1950 at a site with the Arabic place name 'Ain Shems which was believed to be the site of the ancient city Beth-Shemesh.

The storm god Baal is the root of cities including Kiryat Baal (Joshua 18:14), Baal Perazim (II Samuel 5:17), Gur Baal (II Chronicles 26:7), Baal-Gad (Joshua 11:17), Baal-Hermon (Judges 3:3), and Baal-Hazor (II Samuel 13:23). There are also cities Baal-Peor (Numbers 23:28) and Ball Shalishah (II Kings 4:42).

Canaanite god El was the tutelary god of the town Bethel mentioned frequently in the Old Testament including in Genesis 12:8. The Palestinian town Beitin is thought to be the site of the ancient Bethel. Beit El, an Israeli settlement, was created near it in 1977.

Dagon was the namesake of Beth Dagon (Joshua 15:41). It continued until 1948 when the Palestinian town Bayt Dajan was depopulated leading up to the Israeli War of Independence. The site is now an Israeli town called Beit Dagan.

Reshef, an ancient Semitic god from Elba and later identified with Apollo lent his name to the todays Arsuf, which is also known as Apollonia. During the Persian period, the Phoenicians had named a town there for Reshef.

Horon, possibly a desert god with power over animals and snakes, is the inspiration of Beth Horon (I Chronicles 7:24). A modern settlement Beit Horon was founded in 1977.

In the West Semitic pantheon of gods, El was the father of Dagon who was in turn the father of Baal. El Elyon is mentioned in Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and his name is a root word of the endonym Israel.

The West African tradition of libation, or pour out of water, honors the deceased and holds the belief that saying people's names aloud keeps them alive.

Birdfeeder could be a good name for a service that transports one's Twitter output to their digital garden.

if it's important to someone, it's got a name. It's fun, but Tolkein's extensive use of incomprehensible names was always an unpleasant challenge for me.

I love that Frank calls his personal wiki / digital garden / online commonplace book "Frankopedia".

I should come up with a more clever name for mine.

Ezra comes form Hebrew word "azar," means "help", "aid" and "protect. [Jennings] (http://www.irishsurnames.com/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?name=jennings&capname=Jennings&letter=j) is a baptismal name means "son of John."

This is the first time Miss Rachel has call Miss Clack as Drusilla. What's Miss Rachel's intention?

I used to think this. (That isn't to say I've changed my mind. I'm just not convinced one way or the other.)

Another foreseeable outcome, relative to the time when the friend here was making the comment, is that it would lead to people being nastier in real life. Whether that's true or not (and I think that it might be), Twitter has turned out to be a cesspool, and it has shown us that people are willing to engage in all sorts of nastiness under their real name.

Here's the video version of this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQ6XlG0MQ4

Place names and songlines together reminds me of a great BBC segment "Disappearing Welsh Names" I saw recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQ6XlG0MQ4

It highlights by analogy the value of indigenous culture, knowledge, and creativity which the survival of songlines also provides us with. (It also saddens me because it starkly reminds me of all the knowledge and languages we've lost already.)

I've been learning Welsh since the pandemic started and just a few simple words of Welsh has given me a far greater appreciation of places in the UK and what they mean. It's helped not only to expand my vocabulary, but increased my creativity in creating local songlines. It's also made it much easier to learn to say and remember the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

<table> <thead><tr> <th>Cymraeg</th> <th>Meaning</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Aber</td> <td>Where one river flows into another body of water (example: Aberystwyth)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ban, Bannau</td> <td>Peak(s), beacon(s)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bron</td> <td>Breast of a hill</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bryn</td> <td>Hill</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Caer</td> <td>Fort</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cas</td> <td>Castle</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Crug</td> <td>Hill, tump</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cwm</td> <td>Valley</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Derw, Deri</td> <td>Oaks</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dinas</td> <td>Hill-fort</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dyffryn</td> <td>Valley, vale</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ffin</td> <td>Border, boundary</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Isaf</td> <td>Lower, lowest</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Llan</td> <td>Church, church land (often followed by the name of the saint to whom the church was dedicated, eg, Llangatwg - a place with a church dedicated to St Catwg)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Morfa</td> <td>Salt-marsh</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nant</td> <td>Brook, dingle</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pont</td> <td>Bridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Porth</td> <td>Gate</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rhos</td> <td>Moor</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tyle</td> <td>Hill-side, ascent</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Uchaf</td> <td>Upper, highest</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ystrad</td> <td>Vale</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

It also uncovers quirks of place names like Breedon on the Hill which translates from Brythonic, Saxon, and Modern English to "Hill Hill on the Hill" and crystalizes, as if in amber, the fact that Brythonic, Saxon, and English speakers all conjoined for a time on a hill in England. Similarly there's also Barnack Hills in England which translates from old Celtic (barr), Scottish Gaelic (cnoc) and English as "flat topped hill hill hills". It's almost hillarious.

Article about the renaming of Welsh place names into English which erases culture and history.

This place name in Welsh translates to "peat moorland"

place?

to me that connotes a physical location.

How can they be using that in semantics? Is that a common term/jargon used in the terminology/lexicon of semantics?

That would probably be a better name because you're actually testing/verifying that there hasn't been any regression.

You're testing for the absence of regression. But I guess testing for one also tests for the other, so it probably doesn't matter. (If something is not true you know it is false, etc.)

test

The shift in the idea of naming things.

The community is all about websites and identity, so having a website for a pen name is exactly the sort of thing you should definitely do! I'm sure there are a few who have done it, but I'm unaware of any documenting it yet. Starting a stub page on the wiki for pen name could be a good start if you do.

interesting that betteredge makes this comment on ezra jennings. there seems to have been traces of significance in the names of multiple characters (i.e. betteredge, spearman, sergeant cuff is particularly on the nose) and yet ezra jennings doesn't seem to hold the same weight in describing the character though this is the one betteredge chooses to comment on

Ugh. Why did he change this?

Similar question here: https://hyp.is/kayb_AN1EeuCb5OkL5-Yqg/github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/3209

Answer here: https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/3209

Having multiple names is an interesting manifestation of having multiple identities. Do you tend to use your "real" name, a consistent username across services, or different usernames based on the kind of service? What happens when those contexts collapse (like when you give a work acquaintance your personal email address).

interesting, did not know that. How are these generational characters determined?

This is a strange term because one might read "non-functional" and interpret in the sense of the word that means "does not function", when instead the intended sense is "not related to function". Seems like a somewhat unfortunate name for this concept. A less ambiguous term could have been picked instead, but I don't know what that would be.

"linked data" can and should be a very general term referring to any structured data that is interlinked/interconnected.

It looks like most of this article describes it in that general sense, but sometimes it talks about URIs and such as if they are a necessary attribute of linked data, when that would only apply to Web-connected linked data. What about, for example, linked data that links to each other through some other convention such as just a "type" and "ID"? Maybe that shouldn't be considered linked data if it is too locally scoped? But that topic and distinction should be explored/discussed further...

I love its application to web technologies, but I wish there were a distinct term for that application ("linked web data"?) so it could be clearer from reading the word whether you meant general case or not. May not be a problem in practice. We shall see.

Granted/hopefully most use of linked data is in the context of the Web, so that the links are universal / globally scoped, etc.

The way "common law" sounds and is used, I would have thought it meant law that is common (in common between) many countries, laws that can be found on the books in all of these many places. (Kind of like commonwealth.)

But, although it is common to many countries, that is not its defining characteristic. Its defining characteristic is actually something quite different.

Since the term is so far removed from what it actually means, I would even go so far as to say it is a mild euphemism.

Much better names for this exist: judicial precedent or judge-made law are the clearest options. But even "case law" is a better term.

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