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Help[Facts] Re: Meanings and associations are different. (m)
in reply to a message by Cleveland Kent Evans
Maybe it's a distinction that only I make, but that's calling a person a cassandra, not a Cassandra. In the same way, the word abigail means "a woman's personal servant." When one uses the name Abigail, it certainly doesn't mean that they're calling their daughter a maid (it might not be so popular then!), because she's not an abigail. In the same way, a girl named Cassandra is only a cassandra if she happens to greet people with "You'll be hit by a bus next Monday."
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"What are these parents thinking?...Let's name her Madison--she'll live in her own world: 16 square miles surrounded by reality." -- Susan Lampert Smith
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