[LMB] name origins, mostly OT: , was off limits?

[Elizabeth McCoy]

At 9:28 PM +0100 5/31/07, Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan wrote:
>On 5/31/07, Elizabeth McCoy <arcangel at io.com> wrote:
>>It's so hard to know what the color really is, when it's such a mix!
>
>Yeah, I haven't figured out yet what we'll say for his. [...] I think
>grey might be what we end up with.

Has the advantage of fitting on the driver's license. *grin*

>> My daughter, though, has silver-gray blue eyes -- the kind that I'd
>> have liked to have had. *grin*
>
>Hee hee.  Well, at least this way, you get to see them a lot more!  ;-)

This is true! I am also plotting what to do when she gets older and
I feel the maternal need to terrorize her boyfriends (or, who knows,
girlfriends) into good behavior. *plots darkly*

>> Genetics is an odd thing.
>
>Definitely.  It's a lot more straightforward in Drosophila -- or at
>least you know which genes/mutation are and which aren't! 

*giggle*

>I never realized that the human colorings could be so complicated, though
>thinking back, I should have realized from other children of
>Indian/non-Indian parents.

Do interesting combinations show up often?

...I fear that question is terribly self-serving. I'm writing a book (who
isn't? O;> ) which has two different phenotypes (is that the right term?)
co-existing and occasionally marrying. I'm hoping I get the "results of
such unions" plausibly. *hangs head*

>> And that is a neat set of names your son has.
>
>Thanks!  It was really all my husband's doing.  I picked out Shalini
>for a girl and said he could pick a boy's name -- and he liked Sean.
>He came up with idea of my grandfather's name as an Indian middle name
>for Sean, and if we have a girl, she'll be Shalini Victoria --
>Victoria is my husband's grandmother's name.  Somewhat reminiscent of
>the Barrayaran scheme, isn't it?  ;-p

Oh, I like! (Mine, he picked out the first name for a girl, 'cause he'd
liked it for years[1], and we decided -- if a boy, his last name. If a
girl, mine. I suggested my mother's middle name for a girl, as well.)


[1: a few months back, I came across some stored papers that had a slightly-
misspelled version of that name scribbled up at the top. I'd forgotten
that I'd doodled that, in a similar way to Miles doodling Ekaterin's
name in Council...]
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