Dr. Gey tried to do this for Ms. Lacks, but rumors began circulating that HeLa stood for someone named Helen Lane.
[10] This passing of the name from person to person can continue for generations even if the name stands for someone who lived far back in the long-lost past.
Ysabeau S. Wilce's name already sounds like something the infinitely inventive Terry Pratchett might have concocted — he has an Ysabell, Death's adopted daughter, in his Discworld series, though he's been known to lampoon middle initials (in "Maskerade," a character gives herself an "X" — which stands for "someone who has a cool and exciting middle initial").
"If you are going out into the job marketplace, you need to be thinking about how you want to position your online brand and whether this stands for someone intelligent, dynamic, smart, interesting, and innovative, or for someone who is not".
"At first, I played as him because it was funny, then eventually it was because of what he stood for: Someone who was judged for looking different but showed he could rock the face off everyone if he wanted to".
"At first I played as him because it was funny, then eventually it was because of what he stood for: someone who was judged for looking different but showed he could rock the face off everyone if he wanted to".
However, if the person uses an emoticon like ":-P" along with the text, which stands for someone sticking their tongue out, you would interpret the text as being sarcastic.
"It's a noble thing to stand up for someone who might have no one else in the world to stand up for him," he says.
Or it can be something bigger, where you stand up for someone and risk ridicule yourself.
