Subj : Strange a bit
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Sat Sep 28 2024 15:12:12

Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:

AK> Christopher Robin said you couldn't be called Trespassers W,
AK> and Piglet said yes, you could, because his grandfather was,
AK> and it was short for Trespassers Will, which was short for
AK> Trespassers William.

           Or something more like "trespassers will be prosecuted"....  :-Q


AK> Why at first the author used "the" before Piglet, and then he
AK> trashed it into the dust bin, probably having tired of it? ;-)

           Maybe his readers would find the repetition boring too.  Sometimes we address people in English by their occupational title... e.g. Doctor, Nurse, Mr. President... and I understand Jesus was addressed as Rabbi in his own time.

           Once we've been introduced & know him a little better we can refer to this character as Piglet.  It makes more sense than Trespassers W, and a hundred years ago various nouns were often capitalized in English as they are in German.

           It is also worth noting, I think, that Christopher Robin was the name of the author's son.  As for the animal characters, many were probably given the names a child would have given to his toys... +/- the exception of the bear, who seems to have been named in part after one of the animals in the London Zoo.

           The author, BTW, is generally known Over Here as A. A. Milne....  :-)




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