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Are you unique or do you have many homonyms?
By: Aliph Date: June 25, 2019, 7:51 am
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I was always impressed by people that have many homonyms allover
the world, the ones whose name is Hans Meyer, Charles Dupont,
Beatriz Gutierrez, Gianni Marino.
You google them and there are lots of them. They have different
professions and live between Europe and North America.
Are you unique or are there people who have the same first and
last name as you? How do you cope with that?
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Re: Are you unique or do you have many homonyms?
By: MartinSR Date: June 25, 2019, 9:18 am
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My surname is very rare - just a few hundreds of people, and
most of them live in a small part of Poland, about 500km from
the place I live. My father comes from that place, but most of
the people I know there have different surnames (There were more
women than men in the family, and women usually change surnames
here when getting married). So meeting someone with the same
first and last name is not very probable in my case.
I know about one man having a shop in a small village (when you
run any business you're easily detectable). The other one is (or
was some time ago) a high school student. When I checked
Facebook last time, there were 4 accounts matching my personal
data (neither of them was mine, because I haven't created any
accounts on Facebook).
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Re: Are you unique or do you have many homonyms?
By: Alharacas Date: June 25, 2019, 11:46 am
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There are several hundred women with my name on facebook. I'm
quite comfortable with this, though, as I'm not overly social
and have no interest in class reunions or hearing from long-lost
exes.
My mother's maiden name, on the other hand, is unique (when
everybody still had a landline I once checked the national phone
book, and I knew every single person with that last name), and
the same goes for her second husband's last name. If you lost
contact with somebody from either of those - extremely
family-oriented - clans, all you'd have to do to find them again
would be to call anyone with that family name. Even if that
somebody would have been quite happy to stay lost... ;)
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Re: Are you unique or do you have many homonyms?
By: Nikola Date: June 25, 2019, 12:58 pm
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My name is not unique, there is an actress of the same name, not
very famous, though. Then there's a fashion model and also one
of those Donald-Duck-lipped pasticky Instagram divas. I like my
privacy and the three of them make it close to impossible for
anyone to stumble upon my picture on the internet. I'd like to
use this space to thank them.
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Re: Are you unique or do you have many homonyms?
By: Aliph Date: June 25, 2019, 5:21 pm
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The combination of my first name with my family name (when I
married I took my husband’s name) was quite unique. The family
name isn’t very common but not completely unusual in some French
speaking countries and even in the United States. So I never had
to add a number when I opened a Gmail account as other people
must do to distinguish themselves from homonyms.
Then suddenly on Skype I found an homonym. First in Brazil, then
in Portugal and now in Luxembourg. I googled and found out that
it’s the same person. She also took her husband's name and has
published online hundreds of pictures of herself and of her
marriage.
That was really weird. I felt like somebody stole my identity.
Then I googled my first name and my maiden name. Nobody else
showed up. I felt relieved.
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Re: Are you unique or do you have many homonyms?
By: Truman Overby Date: June 26, 2019, 6:44 am
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To take this on a little different path, if you don't mind, I
read last night that we all have nine people in the world who
look exactly like us. And that we have a nine percent chance of
meeting that person. I'm not sure what to think of that.
By the way, why did you use the word homonym to mean someone
with the same name as you?
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Re: Are you unique or do you have many homonyms?
By: Aliph Date: June 26, 2019, 8:28 am
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[quote author=The Artist formerly known as Truman Overby
link=topic=1178.msg17176#msg17176 date=1561549486]
To take this on a little different path, if you don't mind, I
read last night that we all have nine people in the world who
look exactly like us. And that we have a nine percent chance of
meeting that person. I'm not sure what to think of that.
By the way, why did you use the word homonym to mean someone
with the same name as you?
[/quote]
I looked up in the Italian/English dictionary (Oxford-Paravia)
on my tablet. Wrote the Italian word omonimo that means “having
the same name”. Is it wrong?
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Re: Are you unique or do you have many homonyms?
By: Alharacas Date: June 26, 2019, 9:17 am
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[quote author=The Artist formerly known as Truman Overby
link=topic=1178.msg17176#msg17176 date=1561549486]
To take this on a little different path, if you don't mind, I
read last night that we all have nine people in the world who
look exactly like us. And that we have a nine percent chance of
meeting that person. I'm not sure what to think of that.
[/quote]
That does sound as if somebody made it up, doesn't it? Why nine?
How would anybody know? And given the enormous number of people
in the world, you'd think there wasn't that much of a chance of
meeting one of those look-alikes, wouldn't you?
I'm not good at mathematics, but wouldn't a 9% chance imply that
about 1 out of 10 people at some point met a sort of identical
twin? If that were the case, wouldn't we hear more about it? As
in "... and she looked so much like my wife, I was about to ask
her why she'd suddenly changed her hairstyle"?
[quote author=Sofia link=topic=1178.msg17186#msg17186
date=1561555711]
Wrote the Italian word omonimo that means “having the same
name”. Is it wrong?
[/quote]
I have no idea, Sofia, but I admit I was wondering about it
myself. I'd have said a homonym was a word with 2 entirely
unrelated meanings, like "shed" (1. hut; 2. to cast (off)) in
English or "sein" (1. his; 2. to be) in German. I think I'd call
a person with the same name exactly that - a person with the
same name. :D
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Re: Are you unique or do you have many homonyms?
By: Truman Overby Date: June 26, 2019, 9:23 am
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[quote author=Sofia link=topic=1178.msg17186#msg17186
date=1561555711]
[quote author=The Artist formerly known as Truman Overby
link=topic=1178.msg17176#msg17176 date=1561549486]
To take this on a little different path, if you don't mind, I
read last night that we all have nine people in the world who
look exactly like us. And that we have a nine percent chance of
meeting that person. I'm not sure what to think of that.
By the way, why did you use the word homonym to mean someone
with the same name as you?
[/quote]
I looked up in the Italian/English dictionary (Oxford-Paravia)
on my tablet. Wrote the Italian word omonimo that means “having
the same name”. Is it wrong?
[/quote]
As Alharacas said, we just say 'a person with the same name.' A
homonym is a horse of a different color.
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Re: Are you unique or do you have many homonyms?
By: MartinSR Date: June 26, 2019, 9:45 am
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I was a little bit surprised seeing the word "homonym" in this
meaning, but I thought Sofia used it just for fun.
When I checked the "homonim" in Polish I got two meanings:
1) The word with two meanings, e.g. Polish "zamek" means "a
castle" and "a door lock" (and "a zipper", maybe a few more
meanings).
2) Two species of plants or animals having the same name given
by mistake - one scientist didn't know that the other one
already "reserved" the name
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