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Vocative in English?

Hi folks! What's popping?

 
In English when you plan to give an example of a situation involving people, but don't want to mention names, can you use generic ones?
For example, in Portuguese the following names are generic, I mean that no one puts those names in children.
"<em>Fulano, Beltrano, Sicrano</em>". Even these names are forbidden by law in Brazil, not for being swear-word, but for exposing people to ridicule.
Syntactically, it is worth remembering that "<em>Fulano, Beltrano, Sicrano</em>" play the role of vocative, not subject.

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