Anyone know a person named Daria out there?

I ask this because I do know one Daria. She is a hostess for one of the better Italian restaurants I have visit. What's weird is that she has not only not heard of the show, but she said that Daria is a common name where she comes from. And where's that? Eastern Europe ( I forget exactly which country though). She went on to say that she knew at least three other Darias in her homeland. So I wonder if some or one of the writers of BBH thought of this name from Eastern Europe heritage? Surely it did not just pop in out of thin air. Can you imagine if the show was called Laurie? Susan? Sharon? Jamie? etc. No way. D rules!

Cheers!

Joe

My name happens to be Daria. I don't pronounce it like our Ms. M though. I pronounce it "Darry-uh" (The Darry like the name Larry).

Funny, I always get compliments on my 'unusual' name, and people always claim it as their own origin. For instance, the Italians say it's Italian (I am Italian, BTW), the Russians say it's Russian... the name books usually give me "Arabic, Persian."

While I love Daria, and think she is a lot like me, I sometimes wish Mike Judge pronounced the name my way... you don't know how many people refuse to call me by anything but the Morgendorffer pronunciation.

It's a classical corruption of the Persian name "Dara" or something like that. "Daria" is feminine of "Darius", which was the name of the last true Shah of Cyrus' dynasty.

Sincerely Yours, Jordan

"Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction." (Dean William R. Inge)

Joe wrote:

The name "Daria" is the feminine derivative of "Darius", the name of several kings of the ancient Medo-Persian Empire & mentioned in the Bible.

<snip> Never knew we had so many linguists here. We even have people on this discussion group that can translate "Aguilar" off the top of their head.

Pretty impressive.

Sincerely, Rev. Paul L. Vasquez

That's probably because they've been watching the TV series of the same name.

-Shez.

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I'll just release a Scooby Doo "Unh?" to indicate my puzzlement.

"Aguilar"... is that, like, "eagle", or something?

Or am I just being dim?

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Al contrario, Oso. You're right on track. We had this discussion once, oh I don't know, about 2 or 3 months ago. You make the second person that knew off the top of their heads. Diane Aguilar explained that technically it means "like an eagle" or "having the characteristics of an eagle", but close enough for me!

Su Seguro Servidor, Rev. Paul Vasquez

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:04:32 GMT, Bear wrote: Daria is female version of Darius from the Greek

Not trying to needlessly prolong a thread's life, but did you hit "send" before you'd put in your message? Didn't catch what you wanted to say here.

Sincerely, Rev. Paul L. Vasquez

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Uhhhhh,.....what series is that? Does it have lots of eagles in it?

Sincerely, Rev. Paul L. Vasquez

father_v wrote:

Ha ha ha! I'm so glad I'm not drinking anything right now because if I was then I'd have splattered drink all over my monitor and it wouldn't have been a pretty sight. (rolling in the aisles)

So funny...

Diane

Actually it was the Latin version used as the series title, "Aquila" IIRC, although they used a V instead of a U, Roman style.

It's an adventure yarn made by the BBC about two boys who find a spaceship in an archaeological dig where it's been buried since Roman times. The unique twist to the story is that all the controls are labelled in Latin, similarly the craft's displays and online help system. So the boys have to learn Latin to find out how to control the thing properly. It ultimately proves to be capable of pretty much anything imaginable, rather similar to that film (the Navigator?) where a boy finds a spaceship and zooms all over in it. Aquila was very popular here, but I never really got into it, it seemed to me that it was just written in order to inflict Latin on people. I think the author of the original book is a History teacher or something who thinks people should still be taught Latin (in case they stumble across a Roman spaceship or something I suppose).

Personally I preferred other BBC series such as The Demon Headmaster, which was about a head teacher who is not unlike The Master in Dr Who in his sinister ways. His plans of world domination are ultimately foiled largely through the endeavours of one of his pupils, a Daria-like girl who is stupendously intelligent and puts a stop to the hypnotic mind control he has over everyone. I guess maybe it's a parable of how schools are there to brainwash us into being sheep-like members of society. You could also draw parallels with the battle of wills between Daria and Ms Li, except that Ms Li is a pussycat in comparison to this guy with his swirling red hypnotic eyes.

-Shez.

LOL... we had a speech recognition thing (my father bought it as part of his Spend Money on Worthless Shit for the Computer fund) and it had about 5% recognition. I thought this could be a new art form: have different say some sentence and see what the computer comes up with. Other than that, I couldn't find much use for it.

Dagny

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"And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made... and the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence" Paul Simon

my brother has one because he has writing difficulties and can't be bothered to type, but he only uses it for "entertainment". side-splitting: "HAHAHAHAHA!! it wrote 'tart'!" of course the fact that the programme doesn't recognise laughter meant that it writes a load of crap whenever he laughs, which provokes even more laughter.

The thing to do is program in the sounds of common noises - coughs, ers and ums etc, so that they don't get falsely matched to real words. That's what they did on the train timetable system I mentioned in another post, otherwise everytime you coughed it would respond "Did you say .... Ipswich?" (Which reminds me of an old Morecombe & Wise sketch involving Arsenal.)

-Shez.

At a place I once worked, someone tried to produce a computerised train timetable that you could ring up and query via a speech interface. The demo version knew the train times for the London-Norwich line, and it was programmed to ask for confirmation of words if it hadn't identified them with a high degree of confidence. In practice this meant that no matter what destination you specified, it would come back with

"Did you say ... Ipswich?"

-Shez.

On 21 Sep 1999 22:06:49 GMT, [email] (Dagny Scott) wrote:

Your father, too? Mine also bought one of those speech recog things just because it was so cheap (I think about $10) but then he never even installed it. The money was not completely wasted, though, I still use the headset that was in the package. MSB

Ahh...so that's where the eagle comes in, seeing as it was the symbol of Roman Authority. Very clever. Sounds right up my alley, even if it is BBC. The 13th Warrior had a very interesting sequence where the Arabs had to communicate in Latin in order to understand the Norsemen. Since I've dabbled in Latin for years, I could pick up about 80% of what they said without the subtitles. Great language usage in that film.

Please don't tell me the Headmaster says, "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you darn kids!." ;-) Please!

Sincerely, Rev. Paul L. Vasquez

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 01:18:09 +0100, Shez wrote: [...]

[...] Don't know that one. After my time, perhaps.

The Demon Headmaster was pretty damn good, especially the first series. (The prefects or whatever they were were extremely spooky.) Things were getting a bit silly with the second series, and I never did see the end of the third one.

IIRC, _Demon Headmaster_ was adapted for TV by Helen Cresswell, who wrote an excellent series of books called the Bagthorpe Saga. Kind of an opposite to Daria in a way - the protagonist (Jack) is alienated from his family, but because he's the only average person in a family full of geniuses. Extremely funny in places. They're children's books, but rather sophisticated for their supposed target age, and I still re-read and enjoy them ~15 years later. Well worth getting hold of, if you can.

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"Flight of the Navigator". "The Navigator" was a film about some Mediaeval Cumbrian villagers, who go looking for a cure to the plague hitting their village, and end up in modern day New Zealand. Or was it about a Finnish boy whose village is razed by bandits, and they make him lead them through treacherous mountain passes?

father_v wrote in message news:7s0iqn$anh$[email]...

head.

Well of course they're smart. That's why they're Daria fans.

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:40:40 GMT, father_v wrote:

Here in the Bay Area there's a Mexican restaurant named Casa Aguilar. I'm not sure how they pronounce it, but the name reminded me of Diane 'cause of her last name. Seems they have good food too.

Just rambling, Nicole Lee known as LadyKender on IRC and ICQ. The Darianite Revolution at http://members.xoom.com/nlsy/daria.htm Kendermore at http://members.xoom.com/nlsy/

Daria Code: A D T3 Ws Q+ FN^Fr O- OH+Oo+Od m- c+++ MV C5X F:111,213,313 BB- FCD +DT q fN

you're allowed to ramble. we're in the off-season. that's how you have posts.

that, and responding to spam as in alt.fan.bonzo-dog which gets this stuff about "THE BEST FOOD FOR YOUR DOG" even though it's dedicated to a band and not dogs. There was something in French that was dog spam.. something about chien...

Let's see... anyone hear anything about the river Jordan, the teletubby Po, or anything?

Dagny

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"And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made... and the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence" Paul Simon

Dagny Scott wrote:

Sort of like on the Kids In The Hall newsgroup, where we get kiddie-oriented spam. Ironic that such an "adult" show should attract spam directed at children.

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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Nicole Lee wrote:

No kidding...maybe next time I'm visiting my relatives up there I could ask them to take me over there to see what it's like and get my picture taken in front of the main entrance, stuff like that. I should be able to tell if the food's good or not, too, as my parents actually know how to cook Mexican food from scratch at home and have taught me to do the same.

Cool that it reminded you of me. Better that than some singing mariachi actor who's supposedly related to me in a distant sort of way (Antonio Aguilar, who's supposed to be this really famous Mexican singing mariachi actor...don't ask me, I'm just as clueless as you).

Diane

Well, in my country (Croatia) Daria is quite a common name, although some like to spell it Darija

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Is Daria (or Darija) on TV in Croatia?

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Nicole Lee wrote:

     Where is that? I always like to try new places. My favourite Mexican
restaurant in San Francisco is probably Mom Is Cooking, down in the Excelsior
district.
     "Did you ever get diarrhea from eating Mexican food?" (25 points!)

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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father_v wrote:

LOL, if you're talking about me it's because...um, it's my last name and all. I should know what it means. ;)

If you're referring to others...well, then, I do share your "I'm impressed" opinion as I never knew anyone would know.

("never knew anyone would know"?...ah, I'm tired beyond tired)

Diane