And in addition to all that, Harry, I realized my error early in the thread and changed all instances of Ariel to Arial. I guess you didn't notice that, huh?
Beth On 11/19/03 8:58 AM, "Erik Justus Paiewonsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be a little pedantic and pursue the issue a little farther afield > from Entourage-related issues, you might find this of interest: > In the original "Little Mermaid" story by H.C. Andersen, published in > 1836, the mermaid is never named, being only referred to as the > youngest of 5 sisters, daughters of the Sea King. Disney introduced the > name with their animated film. One of the 5 major moons of Uranus, > Ariel, discovered in 1851 by William Lassel, an English Astronomer, was > named with inspiration from Shakespeare, as have been several other > moons of other planets in our Solar system.. (The play, "The Tempest", > was first performed in 1611 and subsequently published in Folio in > 1623.) Both Ariel Dorfman and Ariel Sharon also predate the Disney > "Little Mermaid"-naming by decades. It is in fact, predominately a male > name, (the female variant being Arielle or Ariella), and thus an odd > choice by Disney for a female character. In any case, the most common > source for the name is attributed to Shakespeare, as noted by Paul, > even though it is a Hebrew name, meaning "Lion of God", and thus most > certainly predates Shakespeare by many centuries� > Owned by Microsoft, the font "Arial" was ubiquitously introduced by > that company, and is based on the Helvetica, or Geneva font-families. > (As yet another side-note, the Arial Khan, the name of a river in > Bangladesh, probably predates anything sited before in my commentary, > having Sanskrit roots.) > On Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003, at 16:10 Europe/Oslo, Paul Berkowitz wrote: > >> On 11/19/03 3:09 AM, "Harry Zink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> on 11/17/03 11:51 PM, Beth Rosengard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Ariel >>> >>> The font is named 'ARIAL'. The mermaid is named Ariel. >> >> Mermaid? The (male, as far as we can tell, although he's occasionally >> played >> by a woman) sprite in Shakespeare's The Tempest is named Ariel. I'd >> bet that >> pre-dates this mermaid of yours. (You'll note I spelled the font >> 'Arial' >> throughout. I figured that the others might notice without my making an >> issue of it. Ah well.) >> > Nosce te ipsum: "Know Thyself" > Inscribed at the temple of Apollo at Delphi > > Erik Justus Paiewonsky > Oslo, NORWAY > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
