I'm a Nyan Foggedy and this week I have a meeting middle about people who refer to themselves

with their own name.

A quick and dirty tip about the difference between being named for someone and being named

after someone, and another quick and dirty tip about the difference between misinformation

and disinformation.

At first a listener named Dwight, who's a computer programmer, pointed out that last week

when Jane Solomon talked about being on the Unicode Emoji subcommittee of the Unicode

Consortium, some people might not know what Unicode is and that's a great point.

So if you were wondering, here's how the Unicode Consortium website explains.

It says, quote, Unicode provides a unique number for every character.

No matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language, unquote.

Unicode is a standard that all modern software programmers have agreed to use.

So for example, if you use U plus F602 in a program that reads code, it'll know that

you want the face with tears of joy emoji.

So when Jane was talking about submitting proposals for the bone emoji, she was essentially

saying that she and her colleagues were lobbying to get a code assigned to the image of a bone,

so it could be part of the standards out of emoji available across platforms.

And now onto Iliasums.

Recently, grammar girl listener Mark J. Yevchak wrote in with an interesting question.

He'd been watching the HBO miniseries Generation Kill about the first days of the war in Iraq,

while he noticed that one of the characters, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Godfather Ferando,

often uses his own name when speaking.

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