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Other Things => Off The Wall => Topic started by: Waifu on March 01, 2009, 04:08:45 AM
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Does anyone on RPM know the secret to creating aliens that have exotic like Jar Jar Bink, Tlic, Yob or Worf? I was wondering for years how they come up with those names for the aliens and their planets but I could never found how even Quickman was once Greedo the Quick. I wonder if it is from Babylonian, Sanskirt, Hebrew or any other ancient language that they derive these names from? I just want to know where they come with their names, it seems so exotic and unique at thr same time.
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I just want to know where they come with their names, it seems so exotic and unique at thr same time.
It's called weed.
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I swear that some of the names that SW authors come up with were the result of random typing with apostrophes thrown in for good measure. Like so: Wuf'gide
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Now that I think about it, that doesn't sound far from the truth XD
Lets see what I can come up with =P
Kewuf'varuc
suaip'bawuienkoi
Well, it's harder to end up with something that sounds decent than it looks like XD
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Now to find the correct spelling of some real gems from Wookieepedia...
Mitth’raw’nuruodo aka Grand Admiral Thrawn
J'ywz'gnk Kchhllbrxcstk Et'nrmdndlcvtbrx aka Joh Yowza
The planet of J't'p'tan
M'iiyoom Onith aka Nightlily, a H'nemthe
That's all I can think of off-hand without going on an exhaustive search.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/ScatDice.JPG)
All you need
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to make alien names, just take random letters and fit them together into something that sounds like a word. having uncommon letters like Z and Q in there is almost guaranteed to happen, though there are exceptions. i'd consider Lelouch an alien name.
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My parents were originally planning to call me Alnod. They didn't. Thankfully.
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To find names, I usually go to name generators. There might an alien name generator somewhere.
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bash your head against the keyboard
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Does anyone on RPM know the secret to creating aliens that have exotic like Jar Jar Bink, Tlic, Yob or Worf?
Um, I'm just going to take a stab at this one here...
...Imagination?
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Real word (or world) names seem to work best. Like Ciel. Or anything based on mythology.
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Step 1: Smash keyboard
Step 2: Add some vowels
Step 3: Add apostraphes
Example:dois'dejsk
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Alternate, extremely difficult route:
1. Create language. There are lots of lovely sources for conlanging.
2. Establish naming method for that language. The kind of thing the culture that speaks that tongue would use.
3. Piece together words from that language. The name might mean "[ray splasher] Meadow" in English, but it can sound magical and mysterious untranslated.
and eventually...
4. Get lazy and start making it up as you go along.
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Imagination, and observing the objects in your own house/apartment/room/whatever. ^^
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pxcneo'edg
or theres the "evil name generator"
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=evilsoundname
which can b used as an alien name generator I guess, since some of them are pretty wierd...
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"Fagwet."
I just lol'd
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Well, I gues thats okay but I really wanted alien names. :\
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Well, sometimes you can find somewhat alien-sounding names when you look through your phonebook. Here's some I got from my phonebook: Shoukat Jahan, Koomson'amoah (complete with apostrophe!), Farooq Khokhar, Toto Jost.
Also, combining words, names and even typos can give you that weird sound you're looking for.
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Trimonai
Quaheel
Kut-Rahi
Puel'oid
Not that hard.
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You could just write animal names backwards.
Reab
Hsif
Effarig
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Mix up the spellings of usernames.
Nejella
Perys Chosin
Maqi Ku
Gunad Pirnsey
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Do this:
(http://i21.tinypic.com/2mza8b8.gif)
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Do this:
(http://i21.tinypic.com/2mza8b8.gif)
I so wanted to post that.
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You could just write animal names backwards.
Reab
Hsif
Effarig
No, that's pokemon, not aliens.
:B
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I just sit and think of weird names that fit the species, e.g. Skriik, Vov, Xeng, Nknknk. Or just take the names of places from wherever you live and throw in some reliable ol' apostrophes or hyphens, e.g. Li'Merikk, Taa'Laagh or Longa-Fordo.