G'day
A suggestion.
I like to either abuse the alphabet or phonetic to creat new labels or names.
There are very few JEN combinations in the dictonary, etc. I like to see where there are a few words, and then expand on the names.
I also like to see the concept of the characters and then looks at the greek or latin root of the words, and then look at combinations, by using a thesausus.
Finally I am a great admirer of TOLKIN, and he used the 45 sounds of phonetic into his own alphabet and made up his own language, then translated it to english. This is the most fun of all, I even have my own designed alphabet on my webpage.
This is what inspired me to think up the concepts behind the characters names in B7
But then i am a freak and a single unwanted dumb male.
Regards Tony
At 11:54 22/08/2001 +0000, Steve Rogerson wrote:
I liked Alison's analysis of the name Servalan because that is one area I really struggle with when writing - thinking up plausible new names. I end up either with very contrived names beginning with X or boring existing names of the John and Paul variety (no offence to Johns and Pauls cos I also include Steve in that list). So I'm impressed by people who can come up with good new names. One method I've heard is to combine two common names into a new one so it has a familiar feel but is still novel.
The difficulty is clearly widespread given that very few brand new names become popular. Names such as Lorna and Wendy are therefore exceptional is this, but how many other recently invented names have become so widespread?
-- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson
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