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

Sorry, I should've stated more clearly that Translation Convention is at full work here. Imagine it like how in Disney's Tarzan, the gorillas' speech is rendered as regular fluent English to Tarzan and us, but the other human characters only hear hoots and other animal sounds that are all incomprehensible to them.

Edited by MarqFJA on Feb 21st 2024 at 6:48:13 PM

Ah, I see!

Well, I stand by "buzzfruit"—perhaps rendered as "buzz-fruit"—in that case. You know, fruit that gives you a buzz.

Or maybe "fun-fruit"?

How about "Dreamgo'"?

"Dream" + "Good" = "Dreamgo'".

"Boozberry?"

I like "buzzfruit".

That sounds more like a modern-day corporate brand name.

Nice one, too.

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In hindsight, I really should've at least first looked up synonyms of "drunk" or "intoxicated", because surely there are some simple English words for that, even if they were euphemistic in nature. Also, it stands to reason to have words specifically for the alcoholic liquid that's obtained from the plants, especially if the plants in question were named for some other distinctive trait that was far quicker to be observed than that of their product.

Here's a list of possible words that I found, which can be appended as either prefixes to "water", "sap" or "juice", or suffixes to a word denoting the source plant/fruit.

• booze / bowse
• flush
• fuddle
• fuzz
• fuzzle
• grog
• loop(y)
• lush
• mash
• muddle
• razzle
• wooze

Which combination(s) do you guys think sound best?

Edited by MarqFJA on Feb 21st 2024 at 9:05:20 PM

Hmm... I think, to stick with the "Frazetta Man" feel, I'd probably stick with single-syllable words.

Otherwise... "booze" is already a common term for alcoholic drink, by my impression, so why not just go with that?

If a compound is specifically desired, I might then suggest "booze-juice".

I dunno, "booze" just seems too... "modern", for the lack of a better term.

It's from the 18th-century so it may indeed be too modern in this case.

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How about "Diz?" as in "dizzy."

Another idea is "spin", as in spinning, which is also a sensation associated with drunkenness.

In Red Revenge, i've been thinking about what country Tadpole (Apparently Human Merfolk whose species lives in eurasian freshwaters) could be from. I'm still so close to concept level and basically any european country the nazis invaded would still work for her backstory.

I sort of looked up "tadpole" in different languages to see what it would sound like as a name. "Rumpetroll" (norwegian) would propably make people think of trolls. France could be narratively convenient, but would "Têtard" make english-knowing readers immediately think of 'retard'?

What if she went by as "Anura" instead?

This is the latin name for the order of "Frogs" and her people would have been around at the time that language was the major language in Europe during the age of Ancient Rome.

Her people can speak, but don't have a spoken language^note  (even without drowning being a factor, speaking underwater would be kind of impossible because your mouth and throat eould get full of water). They have some kind of sign language instead, perhaps a tactile one because visibility can also get pretty poor underwater.

She's a scientist who somehow gives herself the ability to breathe on both land and water to explore the surface world, and her xenophobic lake exiles her. When she gets out the nazis have just invaded, and the human resistance fighters codename her "Tadpole" as a reference to the frog life cycle.

No, I meant "Why doesn't she introduce herself as "Anura" whenever people from other languages calls her "Tadpole" on the street?"

Not that her people would call her that, but it being a name for the fish-humanoids back when Anceint Rome existed and the romans decided to call them something in the dominant tongue of the time, it being Latin, and her people heard about it then and recorded it by carving the word into their records (stone tablets kept safe and preserved) as a part of their history since "they liked the sound of that word".

So I have an idea for a Star vs. the Forces of Evil/Undertale/My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic crossover, and I need a good name for it. Can someone help me out here?

Well, what's the plot, and are there any significant personages/events/objects within it?

[edit] I mean, I could suggest calling it Sans vs. the Ponies of Evil, but I have no idea whether that would be at all fitting!

Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Feb 29th 2024 at 9:03:09 PM

So the first part is largely a retelling of Star Vs. and Undertale's stories with changes made here and there, the second part is where it starts to get more original, with the three universes merging together and all of them have to struggle with living in this sudden amalgamation of their worlds. The third part has the Dreemurr kids in High School as they make friends, some of whom will eventually get SOU Ls of their own while dealing with the drama that comes from all that. And the last part has everyone banding together to stop someone who threatens to destroy every universe. I need a good name for this in general.

Phew! That's a lot that happens in your story!

Well, thank you for so elaborating! ^_^

And indeed, it's now clear that my earlier suggestion was a poor fit. :P

So, let's see...

It seems to me that the common thread is one or more variation on "universal collision/impact": literally at the start, when the universes merge; figuratively when characters find themselves dealing with culture shock from said merging; and tenuously when the villain seeks to destroy universes, which, if one squints, looks like an "impact" on a universal scale.

So... maybe something like "My Little Undertale Star: Universal Shock"?

(I'm struggling for a succinct way to include some suggestion of all three source-materials...)

Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Mar 1st 2024 at 6:09:01 PM

Funnily enough, the second part, where all the dimensions merge, I have it called "Dimension Shock", a play on "Culture Shock".

Hmm... Perhaps a little less on-the-nose than my previous suggestion, but what about "Dimensions of the Dreemurs"?

Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Mar 1st 2024 at 9:37:05 PM

How about "Fantasy Filter Off"?

Since each is a filter separated by layers then if the filters go off, all filters would be visible at the same time in a single layer, right?

Meaning that geography is going to get a bit messed up when not every filter have solid ground on the exact same spot between them.

Also, if not all at once, then maybe one way to show the seriousness of the situation could be to remove the dimensional-filters one by one as long the event goes on.

For example, first are the characters all showing. Then the powers. Then the buildings. The scenery. The wildlife. The plant life. Then towards the end, things starts get really serious when landmasses and oceans starts to appear all at once on the same space, which could be towards the end when it is either do-or-die to stop the whole dimensional-event before the planet becomes completely uninhabitable by having three worlds merged into a single one.

Which at that point, even the villains have to give up on their plans and temporary join sides with the heroes since they've realized that they won't survive it either if reality implodes on itself like that.

Anyone here Irish? I just have a quick question about the Irish name Éireann. Now, I know it means "Ireland," but does it literally mean Ireland, or something else?

I have a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to Ireland, but it's not literally named Ireland, so I'm not sure this is an appropriate name to give someone. For the record, she's mostly going to go by Erin.

I'm not Irish myself, but let me note that Wikipedia has an article on the subject. If the article is accurate, then the short version seems to be: "Sort of."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éire

See also the "Etymology" section of Wikipedia's article on "Ireland":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland#Etymology

Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Mar 11th 2024 at 9:23:41 PM

Surname ideas for an ukrainian man and his daughter?

The setting is post-WWII Europe, and they're running from the soviet government because it wants Oleksandr's inventions and Ludmila is in danger. Oleksandr is actually a communist, but hates the government.

• Oleksandr Valeriovych (Олександр Вале́рійович)
• Ludmila Oleksandrovna (Людмила Олександрівна)

(Not 100% sure about Oleksandr's romanized patronymic's endings' correctness)

(Note that the surnames have gendered endings, so Ludmila's would be different from Oleksandr's, though i don't know what endings to put on which words. Except that unlike in russian, ukrainian surnames can also not be gendered??)

Any ideas for names for a laptop that is basically just a panel with a virtual keyboard? Its "screens" are projections.

Edited by erazor0707 on Mar 28th 2024 at 12:02:07 PM

Holo-comp? Keyboard? Photonic Computer?