The "What's a good name for this?" thread

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Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. I thought of The Danger Dogs or The Hounds. Who knows, if the pilot manages to get sold they might change it.

Life is hard, that's why no one survives.

Was that aimed at my question, or to his?

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

I was actually aiming it towards the latter.

Quick, I need a collective noun for ninjas.

A cadre of ninjas?

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

That will work for now. Any others?

Wait, I finally decided to use a suggestion from this thread instead of getting the idea out of thin air after posting my question. It's a Halloween miracle!

A silence? A shadow? A rustle?

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What would be a good name for a ruined slum in an underwater city that's very much in the style of the Great Depression?

Rapture?

No.

It does basically sound like 'Rapture + a Hooverville'.

Since the term 'Hooverville' comes from the US president who the denizens believe 'made' the eponymous slum through his economic policies, maybe you could make your name '[mayor's name] + ville' or something like that, if the denizens living there feel like it's the mayor's fault they're in that situation.

edited 1st Nov '14 12:24:47 PM by CrystalGlacia

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

One thing I didn't mention.

The slum is a product of a civil war about 15 years back.

edited 1st Nov '14 1:01:40 PM by Rosvo1

Name it after some person that the denizens blame for their situation, then. People like simplifying the world around them, so they'd eventually decide on some figure to represent the civil war. No matter what side the denizens were rooting for, I'd say name it after whoever 'won' the war. If they were initially rooting for the winner, they might blame them for breaking their promise that they'd make life better.

edited 1st Nov '14 1:03:36 PM by CrystalGlacia

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

How about The Dregs or The Trench?

What would be an appropiate official name for the poaching equivalent of counterterrorism?^note That is, actively preventing poaching of wildlife by organizing/mobilizing paramilitary teams to intercept poachers with lethal force. "Counter-poaching" sounds awkward.

edited 2nd Nov '14 3:51:30 AM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Anti-poaching?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

From what I gathered, "anti-" is more passive in nature than "counter-". To use terrorism as an example, it's like the difference between employing measures like background checks, intelligence gathering, and detector technology to catch terrorists if they attempt to board a plane for an airborne suicide-attack (antiterrorism), and sending a special-forces commando team to raid a terrorist group's HQ in some far-away country to preempt any planned attacks in the first place (counterterrorism).

edited 2nd Nov '14 4:06:38 AM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Conservation? It's pretty broad, though.

Be not afraid...

Gamekeeping?

Gamekeepers were the ones traditionally expected to deal with poachers on private land, at least.

EDIT: According to wikipedia, at least Game Warden is the title given to non-public gamekeepers.

edited 2nd Nov '14 6:06:12 AM by Bisected8

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Seconding "The Trench", because underwater.

Anyway, what would be a good name for a small, northern port city? Alternately, a name for a larger, less-northern port. (Two cities in the same province— the former my protagonist's hometown, the latter the capital city.)

The country of Rashae is on the northern coast of the (as of yet unnamed) continent. It shares its western border with an allied nation called Dachrea. Its eastern "border" is shared with the vast, dry Saavik Steppes inhabited by nomadic Barbarian Tribes known as the Saavs, who are Born in the Saddle, are not very nice, and love to raid border settlements. The Big Bad also has his lair somewhere in the Steppes.

The northern coast allows plenty of sea travel between Rashae and Dachrea as well as (presumably) other more distant nations, but does not need to be particularly well-defended because of the buffer Dachrea provides on the west, and a region of nigh-impassable shallows and reefs off the coast of the Steppes, making landing or mooring there impractical, and thus the nomadic savages are not a maritime threat.

I'd like a snappy name for that impassable region of the sea, but all I've come up with so far is the unforgivably modern and Narmy "The Grinder". Also phonetically shares its name with a certain smartphone app that I'd rather not name something in my setting after.

The Impasse?

Do you read Sutter Cane?

How about the Wall? or the Wall of Sea?

"The Maw", "The Jaws of <insert appropriate figure or deity of the setting here>", or "<said figure/deity's> Maw", perhaps?

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