Monsters, Names, Pot-Roast & The Waterfall Model
Submitted by Antony Marcano on Tue, 13/07/2010 - 00:47.
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“Antony” (without the ‘H’) is the anglicised version of Antonius. In victorian times (there or thereabouts I’m guessing), among those wishing to appear oh so intelligent, gossip spread that the spelling of “Antony” was wrong… For, so they would say, it is born of the greek word “anthos” (meaning “flower”) – oh dear… so many poor children with misspelt names…
Despite being completely wrong, the world forgot of my name’s etruscan origin and spelt it with an ‘H’… This misinformation established itself through the eras so much so that, today, the de-facto spelling is “Anthony”. It has even found it’s way into the American pronunciation of the name as: “An-thon-ee”.
Waterfall development has something in common with this story… somehow, through misinformation, what it once was has been warped, into something else.
The key difference is that Waterfall is now increasingly represented as was originally intended. Unfortunately for me, my name is not…
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Despite being completely wrong, the world forgot of my name’s etruscan origin and spelt it with an ‘H’… This misinformation established itself through the eras so much so that, today, the de-facto spelling is “Anthony”. It has even found it’s way into the American pronunciation of the name as: “An-thon-ee”.
Waterfall development has something in common with this story… somehow, through misinformation, what it once was has been warped, into something else.
The key difference is that Waterfall is now increasingly represented as was originally intended. Unfortunately for me, my name is not…
Read the rest of this post on my new blog...
Wondering why I have a new blog?