Re: OFF: Name for a cat

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From: FFlores <fflores@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:14 AM
Subject: OFF: Name for a cat


> I know this is rather off-topic, but please bear with me.
> I think I have a new cat!
Congratulations!

> I need a name for her. Could be in any language, natural or
> constructed. Could you help me please? She's black and white
> (black tail, some of her back, and around her eyes; white
> elsewhere), and she has a pink nose and pink fingerpads
> (how do you call those things that make footprints??).
The feet themselves are paws... I'm not sure what to call the pads though --
toepads?

> My mother wants to name her Clara, but it doesn't fit her.
> Me and my brother wanted a Japanese name, but most of them
> are too long -- and I want it to mean something. I looked
> up a dictionary and found _taikoo_, which means 'light pink'
> (and also 'archduke'!). What do you think? Can you do better?
> I can't promise you a kitty as a reward... unless you pay
> for international shipment of the poor thing. :P
<Taiko> also refers to that really cool Japanese drumming, and another
meaning is 'raccoon,' one of my favorite animals :O) But I'm not sure if the
<o> is long or short. If she has black around her eyes she might look like a
raccoon :) I assume you already know that the Japanese word for 'cat' is
<neko>, which I think is a pretty word in itself.