Ross's TCPA paper

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Sun Jun 30 20:48:01 PDT 2002


At 11:30 PM -0400 on 6/30/02, Barney Wolff wrote:


> anonym n : "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith" when signed in a motel register.

No. Pseudonym(s). Subclass "Alias".

An anonym (literally, "no name", right?) is not signing the book at all,
and, thus, as "nyms" go, can't exist except in your mind. Somewhere St.
Anselm is smiling...

I'd be tempted to say that an anonym is it's own antinym and thus can't
exist, but that, as James Coburn said in a movie recently, would be just
plain mean...

:-).

Cheers,
RAH


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