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ArchivesRe: They may have won all the battles ... but we had all the good names (apologies to T. Lehrer)
in reply to a message by Mayis Beltane Mc Demonheart
Cool, May 1 is my favorite holiday! Not out of any working-class solidarity, mind you, but because of the Dionysian ways with which it is celebrated in Greece (nudge-nudge, wink-wink).
Regarding your retorical question, I think its a bit of all three - on the one hand a few governments did owtlaw traditional names (eg. in Albania), and others changed surnames to serve political ends (eg. names ending with -ev were changed to -evski in southern Jugoslavia to sound less Bulgarian and to forge a pseudo-Macedonian ethnicity). Of course there were the idealists who named their children "Traktor" in the height of proletarian aesthetic, as well as obsequious party adulators who named their twins Vladlen and Vladlena to earn socialist brownie-points..
P.S. At what RPMs does a Celt Revolutionaries like yerself revolve?
Regarding your retorical question, I think its a bit of all three - on the one hand a few governments did owtlaw traditional names (eg. in Albania), and others changed surnames to serve political ends (eg. names ending with -ev were changed to -evski in southern Jugoslavia to sound less Bulgarian and to forge a pseudo-Macedonian ethnicity). Of course there were the idealists who named their children "Traktor" in the height of proletarian aesthetic, as well as obsequious party adulators who named their twins Vladlen and Vladlena to earn socialist brownie-points..
P.S. At what RPMs does a Celt Revolutionaries like yerself revolve?
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It wasn't a rhetorical question - I wanted you to answer it!
Thanks for the info - I don't know as much as I would like about eastern European names.
May 1 celebrated with Dionysian ways in Greece? hmmmm.... must contrive to be there for my birthday some year (makes note in long-term to do list).
>P.S. At what RPMs does a Celt Revolutionaries like yerself revolve?
Well, that's the good thing about being a Celtic Revolutionary Communist, you see; first of all you prove that you are a sun-god from first druidic principals, then you let everything else revolve around you. It's a sort of zen revolution...
Thanks for the info - I don't know as much as I would like about eastern European names.
May 1 celebrated with Dionysian ways in Greece? hmmmm.... must contrive to be there for my birthday some year (makes note in long-term to do list).
>P.S. At what RPMs does a Celt Revolutionaries like yerself revolve?
Well, that's the good thing about being a Celtic Revolutionary Communist, you see; first of all you prove that you are a sun-god from first druidic principals, then you let everything else revolve around you. It's a sort of zen revolution...
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