Subject: Re: names
From: Jonathan Koehn (Eleril) (dgkoehn@gbasin.net)
Date: Tue Nov 09 1999 - 18:57:08 EET
k cool way to make up a name=) like instead of amphifur since they live underground and must have water. and they have fur and scales. it would be something like fury - swimmer but needs a translation into something more ancient like. (Eleril) eleril@majik3d.org Check out https://majik3d-legacy.org/ Majik 3D project ----- Original Message ----- From: Ville V Sinkko <vsinkko@cc.helsinki.fi> To: <majik-design@majik3d.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 9:41 AM Subject: Re: names > > On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Jonathan Koehn (Eleril) wrote: > > > k can someone make a random name generator for monster names with meaning in > > majik language > > 'majik language'? Please clarify. Is there to be a common language in the > world? > > The technique I utilize in naming eg. monsters of Nin-Calaris is to first > think up an English name which represents what kind of a monster would ancient > people have thought it to be when they first encountered it. Then, if needed, > I devise some imaginary words which aesthetically resemble the language > (that is to say, other imaginary words I have devised earlier) of the local > people. The words thus create their own meaning. > > An example: > One of the natural creatures I have so far created for Nin-Calaris > is a pale bone-white nocturnal quadrupedal lizard. It is on average > five feet long (not counting the tail), and lives in burrowed tunnel > networks in the moors of central N.-C. > > When I thought of a name for this creature, I thought of its appearance. > It digs holes to live in and its scales are a deathly pale white. Thinking > of what people might think when they see one, I dubbed it 'ghost mole'. > > (the name in the local language for the thing is 'wannoo' but it could be > anything) > > -- > 65 > Zn > 30 > >
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