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From: PLATT@CIT-20.ARPA
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Subject: (un)pronouncable names
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 14:45:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 14:45:00 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jul-84 01:22:37 EDT
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From:  John Platt <PLATT@CIT-20.ARPA>


  In a fiction APA I'm in, there was a raging debate about pronouncable
names. Many of the newcomers liked to use names with apostrophes in
strange places, funny double letters, and capital letters in the middle
of the name. The pros seem to dislike this, saying that the weird names
didn't seem alien, only silly. One person, in fact, predicted a great
apostrophe backlash --- apostrophes would come to epitomize all of the
silly SF in the 70's just like hand blasters and green slimy blobs
from Mars are the essential props of bad 50's SF.


				Ffttssuu'wwTTssvvee'dd the plaid-killer

				aka platt@cit-20
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