From: daviderl31@yahoo.com
"Florian Blaschke" wrote in message
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> David Milligan wrote:
>> "Florian Blaschke" wrote [...]
>>> David Milligan wrote:
>>>> Four or five years ago there was a news report from Iran about
>>>> something or other, and one of the women's name was Xena. So does that
>>>> mean "Xena" is a mid-Eastern name and not Greek?
> [...]
>>> If the woman's name is Persian, it could be an entirely different name
>>> that just happened to be spelled as "Xena" by the journalist. Or was it
>>> even spelled out? Perhaps you only heard "ZEE-nah" and assumed it is
>>> "Xena"?
>
> I'd really like to know this. Did you hear the name or see it in a TV
> caption?
Seems like I heard it, but seems like I also saw the name in a
caption. Maybe whoever wrote the caption was an XWP fan and just figured
that was how it was spelled.
>
>> I always wondered why Rob/etc would choose such an un-Grecian
>> name
>> as Gabrielle. Would a Greek mother really give her daughter such a
>> foreign
>> name? Wouldn't she worry about possible taunting and harassment from
>> young
>> Gab's peers?
>
> I've always wondered about that one, too. I don't know any internal
> (in-series) explanation, but in view of the idea that Gabrielle is meant
> to stand in for the viewer, as a character the viewer can identify with,
> so giving her a "modern" name (or at least a name that sounds more
> familiar to an American or non-Greek European audience) strengthens this
> peculiar role of hers.
>
> --
>
> Florian
> GGGHD, MWFA, HCNB
makes sense. I wonder why no one ever asked that of Lucy or
Renee during any interviews or conventions
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