Fic - Upsetting people
Nov. 9th, 2005 07:23 pmLet's see who I can be controversial to.
*-nomen
I painted myself into a corner by thinking of a couple of names I liked and then thinking what system could fit them, preferably also:
* Making people be referenced by the same name only
* Showing family ties
* Allowing cool names
* Not being too confusing
I thought "Wow, the linguists will roast me to a crisp for this one" but looking on wikipedia, it seems I've re-invented the roman system, if everyone were in the same clan. That is, people are usually refered to by a cognomen, which is either inherited or adopted, but may also have a praenomen for intimate use and to tell them apart.
Religion
Miracles from gods:
* You can use it as a nice metaphor for miracles from gods or God
* But the whimsical/impotent nature of the god would cast aspersions on God in such a comparison
* Why has Athiest Jack put religion in at all? Because it's cool and I get to explose Issues (TM) :)
* I can use it as an occasional "out" provided it isn't at the end of a story
*-nomen
I painted myself into a corner by thinking of a couple of names I liked and then thinking what system could fit them, preferably also:
* Making people be referenced by the same name only
* Showing family ties
* Allowing cool names
* Not being too confusing
I thought "Wow, the linguists will roast me to a crisp for this one" but looking on wikipedia, it seems I've re-invented the roman system, if everyone were in the same clan. That is, people are usually refered to by a cognomen, which is either inherited or adopted, but may also have a praenomen for intimate use and to tell them apart.
Religion
Miracles from gods:
* You can use it as a nice metaphor for miracles from gods or God
* But the whimsical/impotent nature of the god would cast aspersions on God in such a comparison
* Why has Athiest Jack put religion in at all? Because it's cool and I get to explose Issues (TM) :)
* I can use it as an occasional "out" provided it isn't at the end of a story
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Date: 2005-11-10 08:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-10 11:23 am (UTC)Except: you could use capital letters at the start of sentences. That's easy to do :)