Subj : Cough...  2.
To   : Ardith Hinton
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Fri Sep 01 2017 23:47:48

Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from  30.08.2017 15:56
about Cough...  2..


 ak>> Do you mean that the first name always should mean something?

 AH> No, just that I wasn't sure whether or not it was important to you
 AH> to choose a surname which would blend in among native speakers of
 AH> English.... :-)

Probably it should blend. In other way people will not know how to spell it.

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 ak>> A person can choose a rare name to be unique, for instance.

 AH> Indeed. My mother was supposedly named after her grandmothers...
 AH> one of whom was a stickler for detail & didn't appreciate the
 AH> compliment because of a letter her parents changed to make the
 AH> names fit together. She then tried to avoid a repetition of the
 AH> error by giving me a rather unusual name which nobody else in the
 AH> family already had. As a child I found it awkward sometimes, but I
 AH> did gain some valuable insights into preferred reasoning styles &
 AH> whatnot. :-)

Never I understood this tradition when children took the names of the people 
who is not alive.

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2017

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