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[–] Libb@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago

It took me a moment to realize I had no idea if I ever met someone with an awful/stupid name. Pretty sure I've met a few but oddly (?) I don't care much about names.

I can remember a French publisher whose publishing house (back in the early XX century) was named after himself: 'Louis Conard' which is almost funny as, in French, 'connard' means 'moron' or 'jerk' (but can also very easily be meaner, depending the intention) and I remember the very first time I purchased one of their books (a volume of Flaubert's correspondence, if I recall correctly) I wondered for a moment, had I been in his shoes, if I would have changed my legal name to add the missing 'n', but that's about it ;)