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I say keep the name as is (although I was tempted to suggest "Is-its" as an
alternative). Just because Jane changed her name doesn't mean we have to
change ours. We are just now siblings in our connection to the music of Jane
and Issa.
In a message dated 8/31/2006 5:18:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
In light of the name change thing I'm wondering if we
> now should now call ourselves "Isslings" or
> "Issalings" rather than "siblings"? "Issling" sounds
> close to "gosling" - but that would make us baby
> geese.
>
> Does a sibling by any other name smell as sweet?
>
> After some research (well, actually a few minutes on
> an etymology website) I discovered that the name
> "Issa" is a variant of the Arabic "Isa" meaning
> "Jesus".
>
> Your fellow sibling-issaling-issling,
> David L.
> ("David" being Hebrew for "Beloved" and "L" being,
> well, "L")
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As the founder of this group, back in March of 1994, I'd be a little
sorry to see the "Siblings" name go, but I'm no more than an ordinary
member now, so my vote doesn't count any more than anyone else's.
Besides, the name "Siblings" was mostly the result of squinting at
the "When I Was a Boy" CD booklet at 3 A.M. without glasses -- I
misread "sibline" as "siblings" and thought, "Boy, that's a neat name
for a Siberry newsletter." The next day I re-read it and saw my
mistake, but later that year, when I was starting a new Siberry fan
email list (the old one had sputtered and died sometime the year
before) I remembered my earlier delusion and decided to make
"Siblings" a reality.
Besides, I thought it would be a good symbol for a more open and
tolerant fan-community; the Kate Bush and Tori Amos fan lists had
already suffered through some hideous flamewars by that time (the
Kate Bush group had actually splintered as a result), and I thought
that as a group, we should treat each other as siblings do -- arguing
sometimes, yes, but holding back from the really nasty personal crap.
Just my 2 cents' worth...