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

So I guess I can make up whatever name I think is suitable?

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three first results of googling "military dog names" have a tonne of examples, but I don't know if we have any military dog handler frequenting those forums to verify them.

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In one of my stories, an artificially modified/engineered viral agent was designed by Straw Feminist Scary Dogmatic Aliens to, generally speaking, kill off most of the male population of a given target species (and emasculate, feminize, or simply sterilize the survivors) and at the same time transform most if not all of the female population into epitomes of amazonhood (covering the full range from genuine Amazonian Beauties to Gonky Brawnhildas; the only common factor is that they're universally tall, muscular and strong) that are brainwashed to being unthinkingly loyal to the aliens, in a bid to impose a female-supremacist form of Matriarchy on the universe one planet at a time. ^note The scheme, of course, suffers a huge setback when they try this on Earth's Homo sapiens; the brainwashing doesn't take on a good plurality of the population, and a similarly sized portion only suffer Straw Feminist brainwashing without Undying Loyalty brainwashing. Plus, humanity's penchant for unexpected tenacity and warlike spirit.

Currently I refer to it by the colloquial term "Androphage", in reference its decidely-negative effect (dubbed "Androcide" if referred to as an event) that arguably has a bigger, longer-lasting impact on the target species than the "Amazonization" effect does. What I need, however, is a scientific name given to this bioweapon by human scientists, that reflects its duality of effect.

edited 17th Sep '15 3:36:56 PM by MarqFJA

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Artimiphagius (derived from Artimis, patron of the amazons and bacteriophage, the form of virus I think) would be my guess, but it sort of fails the duality aspect

I got nothing, though I'd suguess looking to the Goddess Artemis and other beings worshiped by the historical amazons

edited 17th Sep '15 6:34:08 PM by MorningStar1337

I suspect something acronymal like: Artifical Induced Progyno Directional Selection Agent. You could probably work something out with a catchy backronym too.

Do the females gain the ability to complete parthenogenesis?

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I think you confused "scientific name" for "taxonomic name". When I asked for the former, I meant something like how the virus behind AIDS is called "human immunodeficiency virus"; taxonomically, it is a member of the Lentivirus genus, while viral species names don't work the way they do for non-viruses. In fact, according to the current rules of virological taxonomy, "human immunodeficiency virus" is the official name of the virus species in question, as it's typically named after the disease it causes. Similar to that are the SARS coronavirus and Middle East coronavirus (the "corona" refers to a commonality of appearance in the Coronaviridae family of viruses).

... Sounds needlessly complicated and inexplicably prescient. I should've noted that the official name was given after the Gendercide happened but quite a while before its artificial nature and alien origin became fact rather than the subject of conspiracy theory.

No... though I'm contemplating the idea, as well as having the amazonization phenomenon making technologically assisted Homosexual Reproduction much easier. However, it needs to be balanced against the need to not make the males completely irrelevant. Turning them into the Spear Counterpart of Baby Factory (i.e. Glorified Sperm Donor deconstructed) who are stuck in a Gilded Cage at best and dehumanized into the most dehumanized of sex slaves (whether as breeding studs or as living sex toys) is an important part of my story concept.

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So... The best I could come up with right now as candidates are "human emasculation/amazonization syndrome virus" (HEAS virus) and "human devirilization/amazonization syndrome virus" (HDAS virus). What do you think?

edited 17th Sep '15 7:19:14 PM by MarqFJA

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The HEAS one would work well.

Yeah, but... I'm trying to come up with a word to tack on to "virus". You know, to evoke the same feeling as the coronaviruses, polioviruses, ebolaviruses, lentiviruses, and many other viruses whose official names follow the "X-virus" format.

... Perhaps either "gendervirus" (as a contraction of "gendercide virus", because it pretty much dismantles the gender binary, and even muddles up most if not all non-binary genders) or "phylovirus" (from Greek φύλο phylo, meaning "sex, gender")?

edited 17th Sep '15 8:11:02 PM by MarqFJA

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Gendervirus works, chromo(sone)virus is also viable but if you do use that beware that certain people will point out the sex/gender conflation inherent with referencing the chromosomes.

edited 17th Sep '15 8:28:37 PM by MorningStar1337

Then "gendervirus" it is, then. It also has the advantage of highlighting how from the perspective of the human scientists (and prior to the Alien Invasion proper), the virus seemed so specifically geared toward throwing the entire gender system into chaos and blurring the lines that it seemed extremely farfetched to assume that it was a natural virus rather than an engineered one (of course, they assumed it was engineered by human minds at that point).

That said, I've been contemplating using "devirilization" instead of "emasculation", while adding another word starting with E before it, to make the acroynm HEDAS (which, IMO, flows better on the tongue than either HEAS or HDAS). The problem is... I don't know what E word to use.

... Wait, how about an A word instead, and make it "human androcide/devirilization/amazonization syndrome (HADAS^note pronounced HAY-dahs) virus"? This covers both the extreme lethality towards males and the general theme of the non-lethal negative effects that affect most surviving males (I say most, because a tiny minority of the survivors prove effectively immune, and even some of the non-immune are discovered much later to exhibit certain non-negative effects, some of which is intentional on part of the creators to serve better as Glorified Sperm Donors).

edited 18th Sep '15 4:37:29 AM by MarqFJA

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I've finally settled on "Human Anomalous Devirilization/Amazonization Syndrome gendervirus" (HADAS-GeV) as the official name of my made-up gendercide bioweapon. The "anomalous" part refers to the bioweapon being partially psionic in nature. (How else could it brainwash its victims in such complex ways? You can't encode an ideology into a genome, after all.)

On a different note, for a Jurassic World fanfic, I need a name for a radical group that does not simply oppose the existence of the dinosaur park, they want the extermination of all the resurrected prehistoric fauna without exception. The membership ranges from survivors of any of the past dinosaur-related incidents, the relatives and friends of those who died in such incidents, people who are paranoid about humanity being displaced if not driven to extinction by the many resurrected species in an End of the World as We Know It scenario, and those who are just plain opposed to the resurrection of extinct species for one reason or the other. Methodology-wise... Well, officially the group only does political advocacy, public demonstrations, and generally does not go farther than, say, the Westboro Baptist Church. Unofficially, however, they are not above any kind of ecoterrorism.

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That's easy, pick a term from the following list and build a name off of that:

• Meteor
• Ice Age
• Extinction

... I was hope for a name that can pass off as sounding respectable and somewhat serious.

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Oh, well then I got nothing, maybe a pretentious latin name?

What would be a good name for a character who has control over tropes?

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Marq - your gendervirus reminds me of the bacterium Wolbachia.

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Would you believe that I didn't even know of it when I concocted the idea? Some of the symptoms are giving me ideas, though.

... Ugh, I'm still stumped on giving a name to the aforementioned anti-dino radical group. Or rather, make it a coalition of multiple groups whose only common factor is the belief that Jurassic World's resurrected fauna should all be put down, whether it's "for the good of humanity" or out of some weird belief that resurrecting them and "forcibly keeping them alive in a time period and environment that is alien to the one they used to live in" constitutes irredeemably immoral cruelty (and thus the solution is to euthanize them en masse). And of course, ideological differences lead to just as much infighting as the few commonalities lead to tenuous cooperation.

So yes, I need separate names for the individuals groups that cover the various possible ideological "strains" of the broad "kill all dinos" agenda, and a name for the coalition they form.

Example group: Dinosaurs In Name Only, a bunch of die-hard paleontology nerds who seriously need to get a life. Their beef: These aren't real dinosaurs, they're just lab-experiment freaks cobbled together by the geneticists to draw in the ignorant masses with the exotic Cool and Awesome factor and rake in the cash, all the while spitting on what real dinosaurs were like. (They kinda have a point, but they're blowing out of proportion and making a mountain out of an anthill.)

edited 23rd Sep '15 12:17:53 PM by MarqFJA

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Does "reproductive hyperspecialization" sound like an appropiate term to give to transforming someone (male or female) into little more than a living Baby Factory?

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I need a title for my story.

It's a historical piece set in World War II, focusing on two soldiers.

One is an American soldier, a vengeful young man who starts with burning hatred and fury towards the Germans but ends up regaining his compassion and humanity. Another is a German soldier, a compassionate and reliable woman^note Apparently nearing the end of the war, there were few cases where women were also drafted as soldiers because Germans were running out of men. who keeps making pragmatic choices to keep her comrades alive, which eventually culminates in her losing pretty much all of them as well as her humanity.

In a nutshell; story about a ruthless man who regains his humanity and a compassionate woman who loses her humanity.

What would be a good title for this kind of tale?

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Tides of War

Emotional Battlefield(Okay, that's a bad one)

Tin Soldiers

I need a somewhat poetic name — though not obviously meaningful unless the name itself is very commonly used (e.g. "Christopher", "Christian", or any other name directly based on "Christ") — for a USA-born, Good Shepherd-style Christian priest (denomination irrelevant; assume he's from the Church of Saint Genericus).

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Laurence/Lawrence. A saint and martyr who believed that Church's greatest treasure are its sick and poor. In Shakespeare, the wise advisor to Romeo and Juliet.

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I need names for two types of elemental powers users. People who use Heat are called Matchsticks, people who use Pressure are called Pumps, and I'm looking for nicknames for people who use Gravity and Electromagnetism.

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Ooh, I got it.

Gravity User: Stompers

Magnetic User: Attractors

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Not sure about Attractors, but Stompers are great. Thanks!

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How about Shakers, then? You know, pull, push, shake around.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.