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Old 04-10-2021, 12:15 PM   #1794
OrangeP47
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Originally Posted by StLee View Post
I wonder if nominative determinism does not include some ancestral memory in DNA since a lot of our family names are derived from people's actual vocations from time past: Smith, Baker, Butler, etc.

I am not always careful with the names I choose, but there usually is some personal, popular, historical, or lore-friendly reasoning behind the names I give to people of the dynasty.
I don't know if there's an actual term for it, but there's also the cases which seem to happen just as often where someone becomes the exact opposite of their name. I actually think about that a lot, since it applies with me personally. My real name would make for a good Captain Planet villain, but that isn't me at all...
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