Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:35:42 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes fortunes2 Message-ID: <xzp4qpv65gh.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <40BC34AB.8000409@DougBarton.net> (Doug Barton's message of "Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:47:55 -0700") References: <200406010432.i514WC2k053069@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzpsmdf68k0.fsf@dwp.des.no> <40BC34AB.8000409@DougBarton.net>
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Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > Wrong. His middle name is S because his parents wanted to honor both > > his grandfathers (whose first names both began with S) without > > favoring one over the other. > I've also heard that this was the cover story that his handlers invented > to explain why he added the "middle initial." Either way, if his middle > name IS "S," then it's not an initial. Aren't conspiracy theories great? But he already spelled his name that way in 1919, as evidenced by his wedding invitations - unless those are fabrications? The campaign posters from when he ran for county judge in 1921 must also be fabrications. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/family.htm http://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/county.htm > As the page you quoted says, it's done both ways (and was by Truman as > well). Nice way of twisting it to your advantage - what that page does say is that journalists started writing it without a period in the 1960s, and that the Chicago Manual of Style, the US Government Printing Office Style Manual and others all agree that there should be a period. Sounds pretty unanimous to me. > (BTW, the Truman library has a vested interest in making sure that he > continues to look statesmanlike, so I don't consider them a neutral > source of information.) :) They were probably the ones on the grassy knoll, as well. The bastards! DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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