[Dragaera] Vlad as an Earth name

[Jon%20Lincicum]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eugene Zaretskiy" <eugene.zar at gmail.com> 
To: "Howard Brazee" <howard at brazee.net> 
Cc: "Dragaera List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> 
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:41:44 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Vlad as an Earth name 

>On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: 
>> I wonder why we have so many alien names and one very predominant Earth name? 
> 
>A large number of Easterner names are Earth names: 
> 
>Kelly 
>Franz 
>Gregory 
>Jakoub (close enough) 
>Natalia 
>Ricard 
>Ricardo 
>Sheryl 

Not to mention: 

Mario 
Ishtvan 
Ibronka 
Dahni 
Cecila 
Erik 
Grita 
Gyorg 
Ivan 
Jansci 
Josef 
Kevin 
Lara 
Mara 
Molly 
Nickolas 
Oscar 
Sandor 
Sara 
Tomas 
Vicktor 
Vincent 
...and possibly some others I have missed. 

>Thanks, Dragaera Wiki. :) 

No problem. 

After all the work it took putting that list together, I'm glad to see it's useful for something. ;-) 

>There's a few new ones in Iorich and some of them are Earth names, too. 
> 
>I guess a good follow up question, if it hasn't been discussed before, 
>is WHY the Easterners have managed to keep their Earth names for so 
>long. The answer probably ties into the same reason they have kept 
>many other Earth-originating cultural aspects, such as knocking on 
>doors and Hungarian cooking. :) 

My personal theory on this is that contact with long-lived Dragaerans has encouraged humans to make efforts to preserve their own history and traditions to a greater extent. 

250,000 years (at least) does seem like a long time to maintain some of these cultural aspects, otherwise. 

Majikjon