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Sean Bean (infosec.pub)

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[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Shan ban.

His name's made up of the words "old" (sean) and "woman" (bean) in Irish.

(Seán with the fada is what elongates the vowel, so it becomes a person's name & gets pronounced more like "Shawn" for English speakers.)

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

– Old woman!
– Man!
– I'm sorry, man...
– I'm thirty seven!

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it not more likely to be from bàn (pale, fair-haired) than bean? I don't know much about Irish, but certainly Scottish Gaelic speakers like to use hair colours as sort-of-surnames. Rob Roy is a good example, the Roy part being from ruadh (red, redheaded)

It's a nice coincidence that Shawnbawn is blond himself, of course

[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh it could be! I've no idea about the origin of his name.

His name just coincidentally happens to be spelled the same way as two different Irish words like beach or fear, etc., so I jokingly pronounce his name as though they're the Irish words :P

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hah, that's entirely fair

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

So, from Boston?