From: djenni@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 6:35:35 AM UTC+8, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   > i was thinking about my spy guy, who won't tell the heroine his name*   
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   > and I figured that she would pretty much have to come up with some kind   
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   > of nickname for him, or my readers will go nuts, right?  One doesn't   
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   > need a name to think about a person, but writing or talking about them   
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   > without some kind of handle is waaayyyy more awkward.   
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   > Since she's French, the first thing that occured to me for her to use   
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   > was L'Inconnu,  but he isn't French, he's German.. (Burgundian,   
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   > whatever, same part of the world -- different history.) So that gets me   
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   > Der Unbekannte, or something of the sort?   
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   > As a formal name I have very little problem with Unbekannte, but I'm   
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   > having troubles imagining it as a form of intimate address.   
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   THe chinese movie Hero has the main character called "Nameless".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)