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Help[Opinions] Re: Fenn
in reply to a message by LMS
Never seen it. Is it a lnfn, or a silly attempt to turn "fen" into a human name by adding a redundant letter, instead of letting the capital F do the job? I don't find a fen a particularly glamorous thing, but then I don't much like geographical names in general. Better than Swamp.
I once knew a Chinese man who wanted to change his name when he moved to an English-speaking country. His brother changed his own name, Chou, to Joe, which worked pretty well. But the other brother found the word "fen" and capitalised the F. So he was Fen; a very handsome and charming guy whom any name would have suited. I asked him why he chose Fen, and he said he'd paged through the dictionary, looking for single-syllable words he liked, and Fen took his fancy. He didn't know its meaning - he knew practically no English at that time. And I've always felt relieved that he didn't go a bit further into the letter F, find a really unsuitable word and decide he liked it.
I once knew a Chinese man who wanted to change his name when he moved to an English-speaking country. His brother changed his own name, Chou, to Joe, which worked pretty well. But the other brother found the word "fen" and capitalised the F. So he was Fen; a very handsome and charming guy whom any name would have suited. I asked him why he chose Fen, and he said he'd paged through the dictionary, looking for single-syllable words he liked, and Fen took his fancy. He didn't know its meaning - he knew practically no English at that time. And I've always felt relieved that he didn't go a bit further into the letter F, find a really unsuitable word and decide he liked it.
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