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in reply to a message by kingdom_of_daydreams
Not suggesting you forget about it, but that you think realistically about it.
Let's use another example; what if someone named their daughter Scarlatina?
Could you honestly tell yourself that it's like "little Scarlett" and not see/recognize that scarlatina is a disease, what used to be called scarlet fever?
I really don't think you or anyone else could just naturally overlook that; it would take some self-deception.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
Let's use another example; what if someone named their daughter Scarlatina?
Could you honestly tell yourself that it's like "little Scarlett" and not see/recognize that scarlatina is a disease, what used to be called scarlet fever?
I really don't think you or anyone else could just naturally overlook that; it would take some self-deception.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
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I've never heard of scarlatina as a disease.
Well, it's stil out there. I remember having it and thinking at the time (I was probably seven or eight) what a pretty word it was.
Malaria is a pretty disease name too.
So is influenza and it has to do with the moon.
So's diarrhea, so's rubella ... I draw the line at pellagra.
This reminds me of a book by Cormac McCarthy called "Child of God." There's a family who run the town dump and there's like twelve daughters, all named from a medical book their father found in the trash. So there's Urethra, Sara Bella, and Hernia Sue, among others.
So's diarrhea, so's rubella ... I draw the line at pellagra.
This reminds me of a book by Cormac McCarthy called "Child of God." There's a family who run the town dump and there's like twelve daughters, all named from a medical book their father found in the trash. So there's Urethra, Sara Bella, and Hernia Sue, among others.
I thought Rubella was a pretty disease name as well.