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Salem is a cat's name to me. Wasn't Salem the cat in "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"? The association with the witch trials doesn't bother me a bit, maybe because it all happened so long ago. I find the feline association to be more troubling, odd as that sounds.
The prn is also a bit silly. I don't know anyone who would prn it say-LEM. I expect little Salem is eventually just going to give up correcting people at some point in his or her life and default to the more common prn.
BTW, if anything, Salem is a boy's name to me. Hey, wasn't the cat from "Sabrina" a boy? Maybe that's why the name seems to masculine to me.
The prn is also a bit silly. I don't know anyone who would prn it say-LEM. I expect little Salem is eventually just going to give up correcting people at some point in his or her life and default to the more common prn.
BTW, if anything, Salem is a boy's name to me. Hey, wasn't the cat from "Sabrina" a boy? Maybe that's why the name seems to masculine to me.
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Salem was a male cat. I too think that the Sabrina thing would be a bit more troublesome but then again it always has been for me, LOL.
For me I automattically think of Salem from Sabrina, Jerusalem, Salem, Oregon, Hocus Pocus and then the Salem Witch Trials.
I do think what happend in 1692 was sad, and horrible but for me that's not the focus when I see Salem so it doesn't have that strong affect on me.
ETA: I say it say-lem...how else is it supposed to be said I never heard of another saying? Sah-lem?
Salem was a male cat. I too think that the Sabrina thing would be a bit more troublesome but then again it always has been for me, LOL.
For me I automattically think of Salem from Sabrina, Jerusalem, Salem, Oregon, Hocus Pocus and then the Salem Witch Trials.
I do think what happend in 1692 was sad, and horrible but for me that's not the focus when I see Salem so it doesn't have that strong affect on me.
ETA: I say it say-lem...how else is it supposed to be said I never heard of another saying? Sah-lem?
This message was edited 3/27/2008, 9:58 AM
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WW2 happened "so long ago" and there aren't many Adolfs around. Also, no, witch trials were really not that long ago, at all. Doesn't the idea of changing history bother you?
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Some events are so important that they remain famous centuries, even millenia afterwards. Nero and Caligula were Roman emperors, so they lived way before the Salem trials, but thousands of years later these two names still have extremely negative associations, being almost synonims for "mad and bloodthirsty tyrant".
Everyone who's got a minimum of formal education will know about the Salem witch trial. It's a bit odd to be bothered by a TV programme and not by history, and incidentally I assume the name was picked for the character of the cat just because of the "witchy" connotation.
Some events are so important that they remain famous centuries, even millenia afterwards. Nero and Caligula were Roman emperors, so they lived way before the Salem trials, but thousands of years later these two names still have extremely negative associations, being almost synonims for "mad and bloodthirsty tyrant".
Everyone who's got a minimum of formal education will know about the Salem witch trial. It's a bit odd to be bothered by a TV programme and not by history, and incidentally I assume the name was picked for the character of the cat just because of the "witchy" connotation.
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The Salem Witch Trials were in 1692 maybe to her that's a long time.
This message was edited 3/26/2008, 8:38 PM
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