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Earth-girl names, incidentally, are sometimes put on native Gorean girls, perhaps to punish them, belittle them, demean them, humiliate them, or so on. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 40, Sentence #270)

I do not think the matter really had to do with my being a barbarian. My Gorean was now quite good, and many of the slaves in the holding, as far as I could tell, though unsure of my accent, uncritically accepted me as a native speaker, a mistake which I thought it needless to rectify. If my original Earth name 'Margaret' had been put on me, though then, of course, as a mere, perhaps mocking, slave name at the whim of masters, things might have been different. Earth-girl names, incidentally, are sometimes put on native Gorean girls, perhaps to punish them, belittle them, demean them, humiliate them, or so on. They must then answer to that name, of course, promptly and perfectly. I heard the irritating tinkle of the bells, changed my position, and then lay as still as I could, so as not to jangle the bells, the blanket clutched about me. I had been sleeping, for some Ahn. - (Quarry of Gor)