"Normalize using your Hebrew name" okay hi I'm Janitor
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I’ve never actually liked the idea of having a name
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Replying to @Cybren @Nymphomachy
Honestly who doesn't like the idea of being important enough that they can just use your title or your job description as your name and there's no ambiguity
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I guess that doesn't necessarily mean you're important though, like you could be Janitor because there's only one Janitor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren
I guess technically my name would be Part-Time Janitor Four
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Amusingly the two full-timers were married so they'd literally just be Mr. and Mrs. Janitor
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren
I liked Pratchett joking about how this is where surnames come from by having Lancre be a country where surnames became "frozen" relatively recently so it still confuses people
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Whenever the commoners all have a big meeting Weaver, the baker, having an argument with Baker, the farmer, and Farmer, the miller, over whether to kick out Miller, the fletcher, over what he did to Fletcher, the mason
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Apparently this is a joke that started because Jason Ogg, an existing character (Nanny Ogg's son) was established as being the town blacksmith, so when Pratchett created another character named Smith he realized he couldn't actually be the smith
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but who is the ogg?
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No one has a monopoly on that, it's open source
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