If we didn't move around so much our names would still carry real
meaning.  It's not uncommon for a family to move 50 miles from
their home for work purposes.  This leads to the dispursion of
the original clans, and has produced the throw-away meaningless
society that we live in today.

My name's Steve, I'm not gay or a hairdresser, but most world
agree that I'm a bit weird.

Rick wrote:
> 
> I feel all left out here, western names are not so much fun to pull apart,
> and if you do most of the time it isnt worth it, yeah names mave have a
> meaning, but its often a pile of boll*cks, made up so someone could print a
> "meaning of names" book, followed by a bunch of stereotypical rot
> 
> eg
> 
> Steve - Gay Hairdresser
> 
> the names may once have had a real meaning, as yours does, but in this
> society of hallmark holidays, they have virtually no relevence to the
> person, there family or history.
> 
> making them essentially meaningless.
> 
> Rick
> 
> PS I appologise to all ppl called Steve reading this who are neither gay or
> a hairdresser, but on the other hand, I know 3 ppl called Steve who are..
> strange..
> 
> > Well, yeah, "-ov" is one of the endings for a masculine noun in the
> > genitive case (whatever is left if it anyway), like "-ev", "-ski",
> > "-in", "-ich" etc. seen in Slavic names. As I've explained before,
> > "Popov" literally means "of the priest's" (my grand-grand-dad was a
> > priest and hence the family name). The "po-" prefix, on the other
> > hand, indicates a comparative form of any adjective or adverb (or a
> > noun used as an adjective or adverb, for that matter), so "po-pov"
> > literally means "More POV", where POV acts as an adjective (POVving,
> > POVed, POVish, POVely, POVable etc.)
> > Fun :)
> >
> > ---------
> > Peter Popov
> > ICQ: 15002700

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Cheers
Steve

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