My doctor’s first name, Ra-chel, is hyphenated (as is her last). I’ve never seen this before. I don’t know if this is a regional thing, or an affectation.
Her slight accent and physical appearance remind me of people I’ve known from Ivory Coast area of Africa.
Does anybody know?
Peace,
man-george
Chiung-tung would not be a hyphenated first name. Actually, the surname or family name is “Li”, “Chiung” would be equivalent to a first name and “tung” to a middle name.
Are you sure it wasn’t Rach-el? Maybe she’s from Krypton. (groan)
I’ve not noticed hyphens but a lot of ’ like Ja’net (ja-net not jan-et)
Yeah, I’ve seen Ra’chel too. Must be a personal thing with her.
I found a couple of bibical sites that talked about Ra’chel, but down in the text they spelled it Rachel.
I dunno how the State views it - I imagine that any character that can be created by a standard 256-symbol set can be put in.
And yes, the 6 is silent. <now WHAT book did that come from… Cat’s Cradle?>
No! I remember now! It was a silly scifi story, written in the same fashion as Vonnegut writes, but not by Vonnegut.
THe story was about looking for patterns in random noise. The protagonist was a crazy man, who among other things, spelled his name with a silent 6 halfway htrough it. This fellow worked his way up the sets of randomness, running his input through a simple computer program with a dictionary, looking for strings of words. Most were useless, but the last one, before he shut it off was something like this:
This is God. THe probabailiy of your getting this message randomly is (some large number). something something something… And yes, the 6 is silent.
Huh? Man, I wish I could still do drugs. 