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« on: May 21, 2024, 10:45:35 PM »

I wonder how many people realize that the word Bizarro as a descriptor of things originated with the Superman villain (much in the same way they coined the word Brainiac, a word that's far escaped DC Comics to become a pretty regular real world word). Any time someone refers to a bizarro-whatever as a way of describing everything being upside down and topsy-turvy vs what it should be, they're calling out the Superman villain who always said the opposite of what he was thinking.

(I remain confused that modern day DC stuff has never used Brainiac for a feature film villain when he's Superman's best and most interesting villain but that's a different conversation)

We need to re-normalize changing last names that sound weird or have undesirable connotations that did not necessarily exist when the surname was created hundreds of years ago or in another country's language/cultural context. Nowadays anyone who does that is accused of "selling out" or doing it for sketchy or underhanded reasons. (Gary Hart changing his last name as a young man - he shortened it from 'Hartpence' - was frequently used as a campaign issue against him, with the implication being that he had something to hide.)

I grew up knowing a family whose last name was Cocke. Why not just change it to Cooke? Your ancestors would want you to if they knew what that word had come to mean.
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