Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sadly Howard, I rarely read NS but it is a term that is now in less esoteric usage than it used to be. I go drinking in the Nominative Determinism room in my local bar with Paul Banks the local banker, Sean Fisher the trawlerman, Annette Curtin the soft furnishings woman, Fiacla Paine my dentist, and Eamonn Archer owner of a sports shop (you can buy a bow there) Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard L Ritter Jr" <hlritter at twc.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] URL: Who says photography is egalitarian? > ?Nominative determinism?? Do you read New Scientist too, Douglas, or has > this term come into general use since the magazine introduced it 20 years > ago? > > ?howard > > >> On Jan 3, 2017, at 11:50 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: >> >> "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr> posted >>>> >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38494382 >>> >> >> Well, you could say that there's indeed a bit of nominative determinism >> in the name Royal Photographic Society... >> >> Douglas >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information