Re: EI mew ;abeling regulations June 20th 2025

On 2025-01-14 21:00, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:

R.Wieser, 2025-01-14 16:11:
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Arno,
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Hardly ever.

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See that page:

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That list shows 17 male "marion"s in 164 years.  That comes down to one in
over 9.5 years.

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Yes - for *known* men. Not every man called "Marion" or "Andrea" is
listed in Wikipedia. But even I know to men called "Andrea" and one man
called "Marion" personally.

    And then there's a boy named Sue.
 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_Named_Sue>

"The song tells the tale of a young man's quest for revenge on a father who abandoned him at three years of age and whose only contribution to his entire life was giving him a guitar and naming him Sue, commonly a feminine name, which results in the young man suffering from ridicule and harassment by everyone he meets. Ashamed of his name, he becomes a hard-hearted nomad as a young man; he swears that he will find and kill his father for giving him "that awful name". "
Couldn't he just change his name? Or his mother do it? Why did his mother not oppose that name? Why did he not hate his mother?
Argh, me trying to make sense of a song.
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Cheers, Carlos.