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Post by csc on Aug 17, 2012 11:36:30 GMT -5
Naming a dog Puppy is pretty original actually.
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Post by B. on Aug 17, 2012 11:46:51 GMT -5
I once knew someone who had a cat named "Cat."
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Aug 17, 2012 14:24:39 GMT -5
I know someone who has a dog named "Cat". But that's off topic, unless we speculate that Qwerty could be the opposite of a typewriter and it is called Qwerty to make the others think it's a typewriter...
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Aug 18, 2012 8:39:18 GMT -5
With Mr. Snicket that could be very well the case (would be kinda like the red Herring in TEE). I usually don't give names to inanimate objects. Keep the good old sanity in shape. Sanity is boring. I gave my guitar a name ("Black Betty", after the Leadbelly song).
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Post by Hermes on Aug 18, 2012 11:10:17 GMT -5
I one read a story about a cat called Cat, not because he was a cat, but in allusion to Popocatepetl. (He lived with two other cats called Pop and Petl.)
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Allyieh
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Post by Allyieh on Aug 19, 2012 2:01:11 GMT -5
I don't really think it's about being original or lame? I mean, Justice Strauss' first name relates directly to her occupation, in such a blatantly obvious way, that nobody else (in the series) realises the relation. It might be something like that, where the typewriter is called Qwerty - for it being named something so obvious and conspicuous, it isn't all that obvious to some.
Unless I'm reading into this too much? lol
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Post by Christmas Chief on Aug 19, 2012 8:56:54 GMT -5
I think it depends on how you look at it. Is "Beatrice" an obvious name because she's Dante's true love? Is "Nero" an obvious name because of his associations with the violin? It depends on how familiarized you are with the sources of the allusion; I'm sure there are plenty of readers in the target age group who have no idea QWERTY is a keyboard layout, and that makes the name - if indeed it is a name - ideal.
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Allyieh
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Post by Allyieh on Aug 19, 2012 18:31:58 GMT -5
I sometimes forget that not everyone is older than the high school/college level, especially with books like this that are rated for youngsters in general XD
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Aug 22, 2012 2:27:25 GMT -5
I used to have a fish called 'Fishy'
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Post by Dante on Aug 25, 2012 16:28:37 GMT -5
I mean, Justice Strauss' first name relates directly to her occupation, in such a blatantly obvious way, that nobody else (in the series) realises the relation. "Justice" is her title, not her first name.
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