On Davids

[highlyeccentric]

firstly- David has just given me this link: http://www.ninjawords.com/
it is cool.

Secondly, who is David? All Davids are listed below.

David= David Hay aka lepsdavid
Dav(e/id) Barrow= dhbcaen2007 (sometime "Scary David")
Random David= phrasemuffin (not to be confused with Sir Random, mrlachatte, who is not a David)
Flinn's David= fairly self explanatory. owns a pet shop.
Uncle David= husband of my aunt
Da*vid= my crummy attempt to distinguish in typed form between the way in which I pronouce his name, compared to the rest of them. He is Belgian, and is currently visiting scholar with the Centre for Medieval Studies; offering a course on Medieval Cosmology next semester.

Comments

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Good to see we're in alpha-categorical order, Miss Amy. Otherwise I'd have protested the clear error of not listing me first :P

And, in regards to your chocolate question, I am for it. 100% in fact, in conceptual terms. In most forms, too. Not a huge fan of chocolate cigs, but that's just because of the implicitly symbolic advertising for, and normalisation of, smoking. If they were called "Little Chocolate Sticks That You can Suck On While Holding Them With Only Your Lips", I'd be all for them... Does that help? :)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

No, that is not alphacategorical order, or Flinn's David would be above you and Da*vid would be at the very top.
there is no particular order, but if there were, David would naturally top it as the only David to be known simply as David.

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Is Da*vid pronounced Dah-vid, just out of interest?

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

But it is in alpha-categorical order, with categories being Livejournal, Real Life (Family/Friends) and Real Life (University). The categories are alphabetised, and names within the categories are then sub-alphabetised. Take another look! See how organised your subconscious is?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

erm... depends if you prounouce ah- sounds with an ocker accent. If not, yes.

The french way, anyhow.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

wow! that is so true!

except that both David and Dave Barrow are really RL people who just happen to have LJs...

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Also true, but it makes more sense to list them as LJ-ers as opposed to RL-ers here on LJ, contextually speaking. If, however, you were to be listing us in RL, you would of course list them as RL-ers first, LJ-ers second, due to the context.

Flinn is also a University person, no? meaning his David is, by extension, a university acquaintaince/friend/person. You don't list him as a University person, though, because Flinn's more importantly Friend/Family. He, therefore, is also linked in this way, hence the RL (Friends/Family) category.

=D

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's the same in Dutch although I suspect it's more of a Dar-vid sound in Dutch.