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I can’t find the answer to two questions:

(1) all things have names (…or maybe not). If you stand with your hands on your hips, you are standing akimbo. What is the name of the posture often pictured of Kalahari Bushmen standing with one foot resting on the other leg’s knee?

(2) Remy (spelling variant Remi) is often capitalized in “Remy hair”. I can find what the word Remy means as far as a girl’s or boy’s name. I can find a geographic location in France with the name, and I know what “Remy hair” means, but why is Remy capitalized and how did the word come to be related to hair? [ its etymology ]

The answer to number one is “stork style” or “stork pose”, possibly.

I have no idea what bushmen call it when they stand with one foot resting on the other knee, but there’s a very similar posture in yoga called vriksasana (literally “tree position”), in which the sole of the foot rests on the opposite inner thigh.

What’s it called when you are standing on the Moon wearing a pink spacesuit, holding the controls to a lunar rover with one hand and an assault rifle with the other, accompanied by five other astronauts who are hurriedly digging postholes in the lunar soil while tapping out the beat to the Macarena with their feet? I don’t think there is a single word for it, but you can express it in virtually any complete human language. I don’t think it’s the case that every concept necessarily has it’s own WORD.

That was a Britney Spears video.

Huh, I’ve never heard the phrase “standing akimbo,” but I have heard of “standing with one’s arms akimbo.” I thought maybe the stork stance (aka the Ian Anderson flute-playing position) would be standing with one’s legs akimbo, but apparently it is not.

I don’t even have a half-assed theory about the Remy question, sorry.

I disagree with your premise. The only things that have names are those that have been named.

A spoiler, sweetie.

Sometimes, late at night when I can’t sleep, I wonder what is the name of the smallest positive real number that doesn’t have a name. Then I find myself talking to G. G. Berry.

Well, in Esperanto we call that rozaspacasurtutacxelunveturilkontrolilakunpafilenmanokunkvinastronautojfosantedummakarendancadstarado.

[ETA: not sure why it’s putting a space before the final o, but it’s not supposed to be there.]

That’s automatic to allow browsers to word wrap. Without it, someone with an aversion to spaces could force the entire thread into a form where everybody had to side-scroll to read it.

The word is ‘theygotalittlecaptaininthem

Boy. You can tell by looking it up in the phone book: Rémy, Martin.