What does or doesn't your name mean?

[tahnan]

The results are not quite meme-worthy of posting, but the lovely and talented marith pointed to, in their words, a complete scientifi-linguistic analysis of every name ever. It's quite serious. Trust us.

Or, as people named Tahnan have always said, according to the analysis, "You can't fix what isn't broken without smashing it up a bit first."

Comments

[mattbeo.livejournal.com]

A masterwork of scholarship.
--Matt (a.k.a., apparently, "Destined-for-retail" )

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ack! tahnan really does know everyone! (I already have had this precept compellingly illustrated on more than one occasion, but it's always startling to see it afresh.) Hi Matt!

[mattbeo.livejournal.com]

The incredible shrinking world—hi, Erica! Yes, Tahnan does know everyone. The context in my case is the MIT Mystery Hunt and the National Puzzlers' League.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Hey wait, no fair. I know you two didn't go to college together, you're not married to each other, Matt doesn't do Gilbert and Sullivan at MIT and Erica doesn't really do puzzles, so how do you two know each other?

[mattbeo.livejournal.com]

We were both in Harvard's Mizmor Shir for one year in the late '90s during the brief time in which it accepted members who were non-Harvard-affiliated and/or non-undergrads—and in which it was largely run by Yalies, but thereby hangs a tale. This is also the group through which I met Sarah. Later on, we both did a high-holidays choir gig for a couple of years.