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Mr L F Braun wrote:
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> That said, I think it's very icky to have aliens named after stars,
> especially the Terran names for those stars. I would much have
> preferred names like "Chuck" to names like "Antares." (Mega Bloks
> Planetoids, anyone? Not that "Zzyax" was much better in terms of
> being stereotypical alienese.) I always felt that "Alien Nation"
> did an excellent job with the problem of alien names, accounting
> believeably for tweakish human nature.
>
> Just my two pfennig,
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> Lindsay
Actually, there are some other ways to name individuals from other
planets. If I remember correctly, in one of the Stainless Steel Rat
novels, our hero was sent to a planet called "Burada" (means "here" in
Turkish). All the names here (such as the female army captain "Adet"
-means "tradition" or "habit" in Turkish) are in Turkish. According to a
note from the translator of the book, the author just opened a Turkish
dictionary, and chosen random words from it for names of places and
people of Burada..:-)
Additionally, I clearly remember some (old)Turkish names from the Wing
Commander game (first edition) that used as names of Kilrathi people.
And remember Admiral Afyon from SW novels? It is name of a city in
Turkey.
Using words from a language too-unfamiliar-to-English-speakers could be
a common source for making up alien names. I'm sure there should be
other examples taken from other "alien" languages around the world.
Selçuk
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| Hm, where's John Ladasky when we need him? :) (...) Where do you think the stars got their names? :) Well, most of them, anyways; Rigel (not "Riegel" or whatever they transliter- ated) is, I think, Arabic in origin as many stellar names are. (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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