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WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)
Stoutfellow:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 29 May 2018, 15:57 ---I wonder if Roko chose Basilisk or if someone important to her gave it.
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Perhaps a baker. Or a Baker.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Greymoon on 29 May 2018, 15:43 ---Somehow, "Roko Cop" seems a bit much ;)
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Roko Schultz (or Schulz, if you use the spelling from Case's list). Now if Elliot's surname turns out to be Becker....
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Case on 29 May 2018, 15:22 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 29 May 2018, 14:34 ---
--- Quote from: Inconsequential on 29 May 2018, 10:06 ---It took me a little while to remember that Roko has a last name, Basilisk. Wonder why more AIs don't seem to use last names? ("Corpse Witch" just seems like a first name to me, but I dunno.)
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AIs probably don't have a last name because the primary reason they exist is to establish a family.
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You sure about that? Or about the universal validity of that statement? When you have a registry or phonebook, that thought makes sense - only those are very, very recent innovations at least amongst Europids
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Gee, sorry a general statement I made is not 100% true in all cases. Also keep in mind that jobs in those times were passed from father to son generally. So yes, families who took the name Baker because the father who was a baker probably also had sons who were bakers as well. In some cultures the last name was literally the parent's name with -son or -daughter added to the end. So yes, I stand by my statement that *generally* people took a last name to identify who their family was, because in those days who your family was was as if not more important than who you were.
Milayna:
Heh, Jeph definitely reads the forums.
I'm, uh, gonna leave most of this to the people who have a stake in this. Though one curiosity: Has Bubbles said 'fuck" before?
mgrayson3:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 29 May 2018, 16:49 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 29 May 2018, 15:22 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 29 May 2018, 14:34 ---
--- Quote from: Inconsequential on 29 May 2018, 10:06 ---It took me a little while to remember that Roko has a last name, Basilisk. Wonder why more AIs don't seem to use last names? ("Corpse Witch" just seems like a first name to me, but I dunno.)
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AIs probably don't have a last name because the primary reason they exist is to establish a family.
--- End quote ---
You sure about that? Or about the universal validity of that statement? When you have a registry or phonebook, that thought makes sense - only those are very, very recent innovations at least amongst Europids
--- End quote ---
Gee, sorry a general statement I made is not 100% true in all cases. Also keep in mind that jobs in those times were passed from father to son generally. So yes, families who took the name Baker because the father who was a baker probably also had sons who were bakers as well. In some cultures the last name was literally the parent's name with -son or -daughter added to the end. So yes, I stand by my statement that *generally* people took a last name to identify who their family was, because in those days who your family was was as if not more important than who you were.
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In modern Iceland, last names for men are all (father's first name)+(son) and women's are (mother's first name)+(daughter). So the phone books are organized by first name!
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