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Re: OT: semi-OT: names

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 3:40
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:45:31 -0800 Aquamarine Demon
<aquamarine_demon@...> writes:
> All right, this may seem like an odd question, but in your conlangs, > do > you make personal and place names fit your conlang, or do you leave > them > as is? If you do, what's your name and location in your conlang? > (Yes, I'm > quite aware this is a useless time-waster, but I'm curious. If you > really > don’t give a damn, just ingor it… ;) ) > In my conlang, for example, I'd be Jana Noyeli Morisá*, and I live > in Lasi Yegase, Neyada. > *the last letter in Morisá is an a w/an acute accent. > Noelle
- Well, my (short-form) Rokbeigalmki name is Tzíhvi Rish-Darish-Aoledh. Tzíhvi ['ts)i-:vi] (that should be an I-acute between the Z and the H) is my personal name, a shortened version of my Hebrew name Tzvi-hersh, and Rish-Darish-Aoledh is an 'occupational' lastname meaning Student-Teacher-Creator; the "Creator" of course referring to the conlang istelf. My Tierean/Gabwe name is probably just Ur' Bahar'av (R' = R-acute) [u:R ba:ha:Ra:v] (/R/ = velar approximant), the name of my Live Action Role-Playing character for whom i developed the language. If i always went by that rule, my Rokbeigalmki name would be Stíígiyus Nededh-Yagh ( = Stygius Wanderer-Fisherman), but i guess i have a real Rokbeigalmki name of my own because i'm more involved in it that i just need to be to use it as Stygius (my ElendorMUSH character)'s mother tongue. Gabwe, on the other hand, was only invented and developed for Ur'. If i tried to Gabweize my name, it would be something like Teg Ber't-Ki [tE:g bE:Rt ki:]. "New York" in Rokbeigalmki is just Nihyáúk [ni-'jO:k]; in Standard Tierean Gabwe it would be something like Du-Yurk [du: ju:rk]. -Stephen (Steg) "my name is inigo montoya. you killed my father. prepare to die." ~ (or something like that) _the princess bride_