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Sometimes peoples' first name ends up being what they're known as by the general public, usually because using just the last name might be ambiguous. Nobody cal
by joenot443 4y ago
Sometimes peoples' first name ends up being what they're known as by the general public, usually because using just the last name might be ambiguous. Nobody called him "West" before the name change, it was always "Kanye". Similarly, one might not immediately know who "Winfrey" is, but everyone knows "Oprah".
Presumably, since Larry Ellison is also a figure in the high-net-worth tech world, one might unintentionally mislead the reader by just using Caroline's last name, so in this case I see people just using her first. I don't think there's much more to it than that.
- jrochkind1 4y agoI mean in that first-name-celebrity sense, it actually is kind of bombastic, rather than denigrating. Is another read. It still seems weird to me. The celebrity first-name-ism is sort of an attempt to claim a global fame, as well as a sort of artificial familiarity. I refused to call them "Hillary" or "Bernie" either, they aren't my friends, they are public figures. It seems notable and weird and interesting to me in this case (as well as distracting as a reader who wasn't expecting it), but I'm not certain or making assumptions about what's behind it, I'm curious.