At 11:30 PM -0400 on 6/30/02, Barney Wolff wrote:
> anonym n : "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith" when signed in a motel register. No. Pseudonym(s). Subclass "Alias". An anonym (literally, "no name", right?) is not signing the book at all, and, thus, as "nyms" go, can't exist except in your mind. Somewhere St. Anselm is smiling... I'd be tempted to say that an anonym is it's own antinym and thus can't exist, but that, as James Coburn said in a movie recently, would be just plain mean... :-). Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
