(June 10, 2015 at 12:59 am)Neimenovic Wrote:(June 9, 2015 at 4:12 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Uncle K
Uhhh, yea....sorry about that Alex
You are more influential than you seem to realize. "Uncle K" is a great designation. It conveys a sense of affection, as well as suggesting that he is the teacher rather than the student, but without it being a formal teaching relationship. And that is what we have here. You have gotten to some truth with that. I think it is safe to say that you did not randomly select that designation, but had some sense of its rightness when you created the designation.
I also like it because one typically thinks of an uncle as being older than the nephew or niece, and I am pretty sure that he is significantly younger than I am.
It also is interesting in that the designation has the potential to be partially pleasing to him, while possibly being partially displeasing. But it is not as if it were a disrespectful thing to say to someone (at least not to a man; if he were a woman, of course, we would go with "Aunt K").
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
