Reinvented from first principles
(midwest.social)
The Picard Maneuver
People Twitter“Son, you come from a long line of Dontanswers. Now do your ancestors an honorable turn and impose the most annoying phone conversation in history on this near-stranger.”
Lots of Dutch last names are ridiculous, allegedly in defiance of foreign empires forcing the people to adopt them for registration purposes.
according to Wikipedia it's a myth
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Dutch+name%23Surnames&wprov=acrw1_0
Such as?
The past had a LOT of smiths.
Smiths and millers were common enough professions that basically every village had one but rare enough to be useful as a description. John the farmer would have been way too vague, leading to names that come from physical appearance, place of origin or relatives‘ given names.
Metalsmith, Blacksmith, Gunsmith, Goldsmith, Silversmith, Locksmith, Coppersmith, Tinsmith, Wordsmith, Songsmith
Poopsmith
“Hey, kids! It’s time for the PokeRap!”
Gonna, gonna, gonna forge 'em all. Gonna forge 'em all, Smithemon!
Or maybe it was the sexiest profession back then.
It’s because most anvils were tuned to G. It was considered the original root scale step because anvils often worked best when tuned to G. But back in those days, it was called Sol (Solfège.) In french, Sol means ground, which is at the bottom. Ergo, every hammer driven by the smith was really just a sort of mating call that sent all the bottoms running to the smith’s doorstep. This is where the expression “she built like an anvil” comes from
So Mason = Built like a brick shithouse
Only the sexy professions reproduced
Welcome to social Darwinism
Smiths were generally wealthier so they had a better diet and what amounted to medical care, and they were rarely put in combat because they were needed to make weapons. So more of them survived.
That's how it works for my dwarves, too.
Smith be smithing tho
You forgot to add the location. John Philadelphia Carpenter.
Joseph Nazareth Carpenter
Before weed was legal my dealer’s name was John Budd.
Eddie cocaine, mike shit weed.
Ah, you must be talking about Eddie White and Mike Greene.
Matamoros is the one I don't like thinking about.
Moor killer
Metal as fuck
everyone welcome Chad Shitbag McFuckFace to the chat
It works the same way in all older languages.
And then there’s the 13th-century simpleton John Fuckbythenavel
