brianv 4 Feb 5 2010, 04:44 AM wrote:
IMO the names are selected for psychlogical impact or maybe they are easily mispelt or forget-able.
The 103 Memorial begins with Ahern for instance. Same as the 9/11 non-victims practically.
And the whole list looks very similar, in ways I can't explain! Well apart from the Christophers etc.
I have thought for a while that they're doing something with SOUNDEX or one of its variants and looking for names that riff on a particular syllable. There are a lot of repeated syllables but with different spelling (substitute C for K, for example) and a lot of alphabet clusters (ABC, RST, DEF, etc.)
Take donna marsh o'connor, for example, we have NN NN in the first and last name. DoNNa ocoNNer. Final r in middle and last name. Then with the daughter we have more N sounds and a final R: vaNNessa laNg laNger. Lang Langer is a pretty strange name. Like Ricknauth Ricknauth or CeeCee CiaCia or any of there other made-up names.
There's a lot more syllable doubling and repetition than one would expect, and when you take out the orthographic variations [write out each sound using the same letter to represent the sound] and toss out the vowels, it becomes even worse.
I think that for the names that are intended to be bandied about by the actors and actresses, they've tried to make the names and dates easy to remember to help the actors stay on script. Rather than give them difficult birthdays and biographies to master, they have them just keep repeating the same dates and syllables. "You can remember Sept 11, right? So your wedding anniversary was Sept 11, and your daughter was born on Sept 11, and your husband was killed on flight 11, and your daughter was going to be 11 years old, and your husband wanted to lose 11 pounds with a new diet..." Since they want their media operatives to be able to recite these lies fluently, it helps if they tailor names and stories for mickey-mouse mnemonics.
For names that are poorly backstopped they probably made a deliberate choice to go with something unpronounceable and easily misspelled to discourage any reporters from dialing up and hassling the non-existent family. Would you want to call poor grieving Mrs Aaligh and butcher the family name?
It's interesting to me that the infiltrators for the most part seem to have "easy" names, like Ace Baker, or Jon Gold, or Judy Wood, or Andrew Johnson, or Andrew Watson or Alex Jones. They're so common that it's hard to do any research on them. Not too many Zbigniew Brezezinski's coming and trying to join up.
[C,K,G] all the same sound
Egg, eck, Egger, eggersville... GGG
Fredrick Fred Fredfredder