Re: Inventing names

Please, give your names history, as real ones have! If some of the names are
too long, your speakers could have short names (like "Ron" for Ronald, and
so on.)
Personally I love long words. Some of people have names like Gildelilea (5
syllables = "he with the crescent moon in his hair") or fairly normal
"Anglo-Saxon" style formations like "Ildurona" = "noble shield". Naming
could well form a very large part of your conculture.
Mike
> Before I'm starting to work on a conworld  I need names, I
> thought & decided. But how to come up with names? Shall I
> just make up (at least for now) random, meaningless names,
... The
> problem with descriptive names, such as "Stormcloud" is
> that they're mostly at least trisyllabic and that way don't
> fit what I'm used to -- European names are rather short,
> only one or two syllables mostly. OTOH, when you're looking
> at Indian or generally SE-Asian names, three syllables are
> very short!
> Then there are the place names ..