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Xanfor
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Some lineages place surnames before given names. Perhaps mutants do so as well.
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Xanfor
DOOP Secretary
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"Leela" is her given name -- in many cultures this does come first. "Turanga" is her surname -- in many cultures this comes last, but not always. A surname is also known as a family name, because it is shared within your family.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Japanese folks have their surname first. And other miscellaneous other cultures as well - Hungary, China, Korea, and various unimportant East Asian countries.
Leela doesn't look Asian (her eye is too round), but the purple hair suggests Hungarian ancestry. Although Turanga isn't a common Hungarian name. It sounds more Scottish. The Scots, of course, don't even have given names - just obscenities.
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coldangel
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Yes well, it would be odd if the mother, father, and daughter all had the same given name and different surnames, wouldn't it?
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Fry: (Confused) Turanga? Amy: That's her name, Philip. Bender: Philip?...
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coldangel
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Oh yeah, them. Heh. Wrinkle-noses [/racism].
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #14 on: 01-05-2012 08:23 »
« Last Edit on: 01-05-2012 08:24 »
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Japanese folks have their surname first. And other miscellaneous other cultures as well - Hungary, China, Korea, and various unimportant East Asian countries.
Leela doesn't look Asian (her eye is too round), but the purple hair suggests Hungarian ancestry. Although Turanga isn't a common Hungarian name. It sounds more Scottish. The Scots, of course, don't even have given names - just obscenities.
Regarding Leela's skin colour (the facial structure does not give away much any more), I settled for "definitely European" (or rather "American of European ancestry", to be nit-pickingly-precise ) My most probable guess was "Hungarian". The name was not much of a criterium for my guess: After all, every nation has citizens with unusual names
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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*GASP* Are you Cardassian?!?!?!?!?!
... Nooo, I'm a Klingon! Of course I'm Cardassian!! Fry: (Confused) Turanga? Amy: That's her name, Philip. Bender: Philip?...
That line is the reason I made this thread, it can be very misleading.
Either the writers had yet to decide which name was going to be her surname, or they just decided consciously to be coy about it, or Leela herself didn't know until actually finding her parents. Remember, her name was written on a tag when she was left at the orphanarium, without explanation. She might have gone through most of her life thinking 'Turanga' was her (rather unattractive) given name, until "Leela's Homeworld", where she finally learns the naming convention of her family. I've always thought she had some indian ancestry for some reason (I know a few Indian girls called Leela, and Turungalila is Sanskrit). Fry is of Irish descent I think (mainly because of the red hair and green eyes).
Her mother sounds and acts like a stereotypical Jewish wife/mother sometimes (but very mildly.)
Indian or Doctor Who-vian. How do you figure Fry has green eyes? The slight Jewish tinge seemed very New York. Old New York, that is.
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meisterPOOP
Professor
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Question if when Leela was admitted to orphanarium if Commissioner Vogel actually knew her name, or if she was a Jane Doe.
Cruel, cruel justice.
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meisterPOOP
Professor
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I guess that answered my question...
Thanks Xanafor..
I can sleep comforatably tonight...
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coldangel
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Yes, but you see what I mean there. From that name-tag, neither Vogel, nor Leela herself would have had any way of knowing that Turanga was the family-name. Not until after 'Leela's Homeworld'.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Perhaps it's a naming convention known to be associated with mutants, and so they left it ambiguous for the sake of secrecy. Of course, in that case, it would have been logical to have written "Leela Turanga". Rather than the other way around. Or perhaps at that point in the series, the writers actually intended for Turanga to be her first name, and decided to pull a switch later on.
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meisterPOOP
Professor
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Regardless...
She is a beautiful baby..
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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As a workplace sitcom, Futurama let's the characters interact on a business level. There are less private ties, and even less family ones. So it seems quite fitting that two main characters are called by their last name (even if "Leela" has just the position, and not the meaning of a last name).
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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Futurama started as a workplace sitcom, with the characters rather linked via their job than friendship/family ties, etc... . So, it seems quite fitting in a certain way that the protagonist is called by his last instead of his first name.
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