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in reply to a message by Rene
Maybe it even overestimates the capabilities of some of these people assuming them to be able to decently fabricate.
ROFL! I heartily agree with you.
You're right, of course, in that the originally fabricated meanings have been plagiarised left and right by every cheap and nasty baby names website. They all copy off each other. In distinguishing between copying and inventing I was mainly talking about Cleveland's assertions that the baby name websites' inaccurate meanings came from books from the 50s, which is patently inaccurate - for example, I challenge anyone to find a 1950s baby names book which gives Mackenzie as a girls' name meaning "warrior princess"!
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ROFL! I heartily agree with you.
You're right, of course, in that the originally fabricated meanings have been plagiarised left and right by every cheap and nasty baby names website. They all copy off each other. In distinguishing between copying and inventing I was mainly talking about Cleveland's assertions that the baby name websites' inaccurate meanings came from books from the 50s, which is patently inaccurate - for example, I challenge anyone to find a 1950s baby names book which gives Mackenzie as a girls' name meaning "warrior princess"!
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Egad! Mackenzie = Warrior Princess = child of people too dim to wonder why there are all those Warrior Royals of both sexes walking around, mostly in Scotland ...
I suppose it's an education issue. One can hardly prevent crooks from taking money from the unthinking ... if only there was a way to encourage them to think; preferably through fear of public ridicule, since if they found intellectual pursuits exciting and fun, they'd give their mindoids some exercise, presumably.
I suppose it's an education issue. One can hardly prevent crooks from taking money from the unthinking ... if only there was a way to encourage them to think; preferably through fear of public ridicule, since if they found intellectual pursuits exciting and fun, they'd give their mindoids some exercise, presumably.
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