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Re: Tortilla as a female name
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My guess is that the scriptwriters didn't expect people to think of this as her official given name, but as a nickname that everyone uses for her.
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The only problem with that logic is that it's based off a novel. :( I suppose I'll have to read it and see if there's some kind of an explanation in there.All the characters had wonderful names in the film, in any case--Tortilla, Orelie, Albicy, José, Julien, Medouze, Amatine, etc. Just a really neat mélange of names.Array

This message was edited 4/3/2007, 4:40 PM

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I got to thinking of the etymology of the word, and found this on yourdictionary.com:"American Spanish, diminutive of Spanish torta, cake, from Late Latin, a kind of bread."Perhaps in its original context, the girl was being called something that seemed to a native speaker like "cupcake"? Just speculating.
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