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Dance name take two:

 

Okay, one of the other things I must consider when choosing a dance name is that it will be pronounced with a Japanese accent by my classmates and mispronounced, with no rhyme or reason, by my teacher.

 

So let’s look at what we have:

 

Fahada (the leopardess): I have a fear that I will be called something that sounds like father…and I won’t even have asked, Who’s your daddy, bitch? I am also slightly uncomfortable with taking on an Arabic name simply to seem more exotic and different. You see that copy of Orientalism? It’s making me feel a little embarrassed. It would make more sense for me to plunder my own bloodlines ask my father for my great-great grandmother’s name if I want to go slightly ethnic (Mexican) and then we could also talk about why the hell she sold all of that so-called worthless downtown L.A. property back in the day.

 

Bugs: Kimuchi is right, Sacer is just ripe for mangling. When you get right down to it, the Scarab is a dung beetle. It is sacred because it rolls around spheres of crap in a manner similar to how the male sun god rolls out the sun. They are mighty useful animals…but…dung is dung. I’m earthy, but not THAT fucking earthy. And there are other sacred beetles that appear in Egyptian hieroglyphs, but they don’t make for great names either.” Elaterid…but if that’s hard to pronounce just call me the Clicking Beetle.(insert crazed zill playing)” And as much as being a one-woman plague of Locusts goes…I don’t like to advertise it.

 

So last night I was wondering about other sources for names. Duh, Bug, you read! As a child you often went to Halloween in obscure costumes you made based on minor characters in the Oz series of books. You were Polychrome, the rainbow’s daughter. The Patchwork girl appeared in your early poems…you want to be…



 
What says Mysterious and Otherworldly quite like a princess who has undergone great transformation to be the ruler of a land that exists only in the pages of books and the minds of children?...Ozma.

Feedback appreciated.



 

Date: 2005-02-10 02:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tupelo.livejournal.com
Be careful....I don't know if it's slang or real, but the term my family uses for tacky or low class is "fuhada," which sounds an awful lot like "Fahada."

Date: 2005-02-10 03:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parasitegirl.livejournal.com
Yeah, Fahada is pretty much getting kicked to the curb. As much as taking on the name Tacky & Low-Class sort of appeals to me.

"Behold, the bedazzled belts and teased hair of Gaudia!"

Date: 2005-02-10 03:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] doronjosama.livejournal.com
Dude, TOTALLY go with Ozma. It sounds cool. It looks cool and exotic if it gets typed out on anything. And even Japanese people should be able to pronounce it. (though it might get turned into o-zu-ma, but still, close enough for government work!) Besides, Ozma is cooooooool.

Considering how they managed to get "Belldandy" out of a Norse name, well, I can't see how they could make Ozma too bad!

(And PS, Scraps, the Patchwork Girl? Rock! On! I was always a big fan of the Glass Cat. "I've got pink brains and you can see'em work!")

Date: 2005-02-10 09:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parasitegirl.livejournal.com
I knew there was a reason we hit it off...

Date: 2005-02-10 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janscottfrazier.livejournal.com
Ozma is a good choice. The people who would recognize the name there would probably smile when they hear it.
Ozma was the only character who smiled in the Oz TV series pilot I did. Everyone was smiling in the original version but they wanted more "action" (violence) so the smiling stopped.

My favorite Oz character is definitely the Patchwork Girl!

Date: 2005-02-10 04:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimuchi.livejournal.com
I didn't really mean to criticize Sacer, I just honestly have no idea how to say it (never learned Latin pronounciation rules I'm afraid!). I definitely think Ozma is a cooler name, though. :)

Date: 2005-02-10 04:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] etler.livejournal.com
Regarding "sacer", I believe it translates from Latin to "sacred". The English word "sacred" itself derives from the obsolete "sacre" which is a verb meaning "to consecrate". "Sacre" derives from 12th century French "sacre" which itself comes from the Latin "sacer".

Regarding pronunciantion, I'm not a Latin scholar but I believe the C is hard, so you would pronounce it like the beginning of "sacred".

Date: 2005-02-10 11:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misa1.livejournal.com
Scraps was always my favorite oz character. Yeah, go with Ozma! It sounds really good and exotic and has meaning besides.

Date: 2005-02-10 04:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarahtdl.livejournal.com
Ozma! go for it! I love the idea, these were some of my fave books as a kid!

Date: 2009-09-13 11:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robinrook.livejournal.com
I knew calling you Polychrome felt right for more reason than my own whim and opinions.

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