On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 11:18:07 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 9:32:28 AM UTC+5:30, Veek. M wrote: > > Regarding the name (From field), my name *is* Veek.M though I tend to > > shorten it to Vek.M on Google (i think Veek was taken or some such > > thing). Just to be clear, my parents call me something closely related > > to Veek that is NOT Beek or Peek or Squeak or Sneak and my official name > > is something really weird. Identity theft being what it is, I probably > > am lying anyhow about all this, but it sounds funny so :p > > Please dont take the name-police bait. > As far as I am concerned telling someone “I dont like your name” is in the > same > bracket as “I don’t like your religion/skin-color/gender/nationality/etc” > Ie its highly offensive
Sorry... That should have been just “offensive” not “highly offensive” Too much disorder in the world from people ratcheting up their expressions beyond appropriate levels. And since I am at it let me correct more precisely: Namism — Thomas ‘bogus-appelation’ Lahn’s affliction — lies between mildly amusing and mildly offensive as does racism/sexism/casteism/nationalism/etc Einstein’s “Nationalism is an infantile disease; its the measles of mankind” should be applied to all such -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
