Memorial pic from Facebook profile of Malo Gomez, posted under First Amendment commentary and criticism, blog post by John Hoff
Looking through Facebook, it would appear there is a blood relation between "bored shooter" Malo D. Gomez (who goes by "Malo Locco Gomez" on Facebook) and Ray'jon Gomez, the 13-year-old child who was gunned down last month. It is unclear, however, what is the precise relation. Brother? Half-brother? Cousin? Uncle?
This memorial photo of the sweet and innocent face of 13-year-old Ray'jon Gomez was on the Facebook profile of Malo Gomez, leading to the obvious question: Was Ray'jon killed as some kind of retaliation for gang activity by Malo Gomez?
(Note: Henceforth, this blog will drop the apostrophe in "Ray'jon" because of a strongly held belief by this blogger that "punctuation does not belong in names, and only leads to confusion." In the memorial pic, above, the name is spelled "Rayjon" but elsewhere it has been spelled "Ray'Jon" and "Ray'jon.")
3 comments:
Haven't you heard the name La-a? The dash don't be silent.......
In my perfect world, free of punctuation within names, it would be spelled "Laa."
The army applies this standard. If you have a hyphenated name, you are issued name tags ("tapes") that lack the hyphen. Don't know if it's forbidden to get your own name tags that include the hyphen, but the army won't be issuing you any punctuation to go with that surname, soldier.
John, Dale the Truck Driver is referring to a popular urban legend about a gal who was trying to be super creative with her baby's name - as we have seen some moms try to win the creativity contest - so the urban legend goes something like: the nurses were trying to figure out how to say the new baby's name, La-a, and the mom said "the dash don't be silent" - so the baby's name was Ladasha.
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