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Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle...
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:20:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Eric Lind writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Eric Brouwer writes:
> > And I believe there is also Eriq, as in Eriq La Salle from ER (Dr. Benton)
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> Goodness, I'm going to have to write a new regular expression to recognize the
> name. Let's see.... Eri((c[kh])|[ck]).(1) That works out to "Eri" followed
> by either c followed by k or h, OR, c or k. Thus Erick, Erich, Eric, or Erik
> are valid. Anything else strikes me as being some sort of delusional American
> aberration (As I dislike this practice of my fellow Americans, I will
> blissfully ignore the other forms).(2) Of course, Eri((c[kh])|[ck]) is a big
> mouthful, whereas Eri[ck] is nice 'n friendly. I say we stick with the simple
> version and leave it at that. See the footnotes for further Perl fun.
Cool! That'll remove everyone named Aric, Ric, Ricky, Eirik, Erek, Errick,
Rick, or Rikky from your ranks! This is, of course, assuming you removed all
the Frederick's (and all variations) and Roderick's (and all variations) from
your original list. ;)
Jeff
P.S. I *really* love the NameDB: <http://incompetech.com/named/> :)
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| (...) Ricky?! You might as well be named Jeff as Ricky! Besides, how many Eiriks, Ereks or Arics have you _ever_ seen on Lugnet? Still, one wouldn't want to eliminate any that might wander in in the future. And I wasn't really trying to exclude any (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle...
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| (...) Goodness, I'm going to have to write a new regular expression to recognize the name. Let's see.... Eri((c[kh])|[ck]).(1) That works out to "Eri" followed by either c followed by k or h, OR, c or k. Thus Erick, Erich, Eric, or Erik are valid. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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