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Ho boy. Time for ethnic-doppleganger Dora.
dragontart:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 19 Feb 2011, 13:29 ---What we're doing here, kids, is prejudicial thinking. No, not the "negative" kind - the kind where we're basing something new on what we already know.
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It's be hard not to do so when the comic itself speaks of them as an alternate universe and doppelgangers. :c And they were undoubtedly intended to provoke that feeling, else they wouldn't look that similar.
TheEvilDog:
Which in itself was an offhand joke made by a character who moments before had just seen a grown woman prance before them in a fairy costume.
Context, people, context.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: dragontart on 19 Feb 2011, 15:54 ---the comic itself speaks of them as an alternate universe and doppelgangers
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No, a single comic had a joke based on that.
End of.
Razgriz:
Regarding names like Padme/Padma, people get my name (Jon) confused (with John) all the time, especially when they're from cultures that don't tend to have Jon/John's, such as my sister-in-laws family.
Doesn't mean I call them racially ignorant or whatever else the previous poster said. When both names exist and someone has heard of one far more than the other, it's a natural mistake that, as taken from years of trying to correct this even from my own family, will likely never be fixed. It doesn't even annoy me anymore.
Carl-E:
Just consider what Jeph's gone through all his life...
"Is that Jeff with a J?"
"No, it's not spelled that way."
"Oh, it's Geoff, then?"
"No..."
To be honest, I see a lot of the Jon/John dichotomy, neither is unusual here.
But my favorite name twist was a friend whose last name was Leimkuhler. He told me to give him a call, it was in the book, and it was spelled the way it sounded.
I wasted a good bit of time looking for Limecooler. Never forgave him for that...
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