Date:         Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:49:06 -0800
Reply-To:     Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: VW car names ...
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dear nomenclatureists

interestingly enough the word for wind is the same word for spirit which are
all  interchangeable with soul in some languages  --
so naming vehicles after wind names is actually naming vehicles after the
potential new owner's imagined ideal of their self--
whether you lean toward the fairy land or some sort of ecclesiastical ideas
--- or something darwinian
or modern archetype psychoanalytical ideas -- or even kitschy terms that are
actually  200 years old --or more ---
like Outback or hybrid Outlander -- the latter being an excellent scifi
trilogy from cs lewis --

of course you guys already knew all that stuff and are simply having fun and
this is that ---

which brings me around to vanagon ...  which speaks volumes in the silence
of its name --
volumes about the owners being ready to tackle nearly any community crises
except a tree falling on vehicle --
at the very least it speaks of an owner who is deeply concerned with how
things work and keeping them that way --

I would imagine if they namers had been reading Jack London's The Iron Heel
they would have named the vanagon -- Ernest Everhard -- after the main hero
in that dystopian tale
yours


On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:00 AM, B Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote:

> >> Routan ... Routine and Sharan (?) :) <<
>
> That was supposed to be the combination of "Route" and the addition of the
> "an" that VW likes at the end of their car names. Oh so clever.
>
> Bryan
>



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Picking up garbage and telling people things.
Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw)
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