Re: Naming in a language

>hrmm, I am sure this has probably been brought up before, but I am lazy ;)
>Does anyone have an example or two on how to represent names in a language
>IE: Take Robert and make it coincide with your language?
Well, what does Robert mean?

Sorry.  In the Ng'anda'u language, people have taken to
transliterating foreign names.  Isaac has become Isaq, for example,
and Jarred became Iared (YAR-ed).  Once in a great while someone's
name is translated.  Usagi Tsukino (Rabbit Moonchild, Japanese,
Sailor Moon's Secret Identity) is Lag'ania Didas'u,
"Rabbit-Woman of Moon."  I would either be "Eleiot" (el-E-yot) or
Sarq'ir, "Fox," because of my handle Renyard.  Eric would likewise,
because it originally comes from a word meaning "fox," Erik, Eriq, or
Sarq'ir.

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