Impressed: (Zoe & Wash talk)
POSTED BY: QueenTiye
UPDATED: Sunday, November 17, 2002 19:19
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at this point, what i'm really curious about is why they call him 'Wash' .
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I figure it's short for "Washington" or "Washburn" or something. Let's hope it has mothing to do with cleaning, altough I sure wouldn't bet on it.
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Originally posted by ELKA:
at this point, what i'm really curious about is why they call him 'Wash'.
His name is Washington?
Jeff
Who suspects Washburn is also a possibility.
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The common names a culture uses have a tendency to change over time. For example, "Ashley" used to be a male name. Maybe Wash's name is just "Wash."
Or not.
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Originally posted by Rhea:
The afterglow scene both delighted and bugged me. Someone should tell Gina not to do heavy nasal breathing. It began to get on my nerves after the 4th or 5th time. Other than that, I always enjoy Zoe and Wash's scenes together.
yea.. that was the worst part. The breathing was just distracting and annoying.
Oh.. and I kinda hope his name is just Wash. I think it makes it more interesting.
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Originally posted by LivingImpaired:
The common names a culture uses have a tendency to change over time. Maybe Wash's name is just "Wash."
Hummm. I haddn't thought of that. The language tends to simplify. I'm a Geoffrey, but Jeff is more commonly used now days, because that's the name I use as opposed to the name I sign.
Jeff
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I hadn't thought of that either. I used to know a guy whose actual given name was Bill. (And how we ever got "Bill" for William and "Bob" for Robert, I'll never understand.)
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Both my grandfather and his son are named "Billy." My only escuse for them is that they are from TN.
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Originally posted by ilovejayne:
I hadn't thought of that either. I used to know a guy whose actual given name was Bill. (And how we ever got "Bill" for William and "Bob" for Robert, I'll never understand.)
I've always wondered how they got "Dick" from Richard.
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Notice that the weird nickname examples here have the weird part at the beginning, and have replaced a "bendy" consonant (I forget the technical term but they're r, w, and y) with a vocal stop (b/g/d, "stops" because airflow momentarily cut, and "vocal" because they're not p/k/t). And the stop that's put in that place is similar (in how the mouth forms it) to either the consonant it's replacing or the next consonant after it.
That's a classic little-kid consonant substitution, the kind of thing you'll hear ALL THE TIME from kids of a certain age range, so I'd say those nicknames originate with little kids who hadn't yet learned to pronounce the real names.
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