Nominative predeterminism?

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    That doesn’t really make it any less crazy.

    Imagine working at a smithy called Smiths run by Joe Smith, who is a Smith. That’s at least as wild.
    It’s so on the nose that if you read it in a book you’d roll your eyes and call it lazy writing

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      8 hours ago

      That’s actually the origin of several last names like Smith. Carpenter, Miller, Cooper, waller, Fisher, Chandler, Carter, black, and barker are believed to have originated from professions.

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        1 hour ago

        I’m aware, that’s pretty common knowledge.

        I’ma write a book about someone who works for a tailor named Taylor Tailor at their tailor shop called Tailor’s Tailoring which is run out of a trailer. It’ll be tailor Taylor Tailer’s Tailor’s Tailoring tailoring trailer. It will be a very serious book, because none of this is in the least but funny.