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Originally Posted by ericthered
Sometimes I'll pick a naming scheme for planets in a setting
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In one recent
scifi setting thread, I went with the theme of "Philosopher's Somethings," so we got Plato's Cave, Morton's Fork, Pascal's Wager and so on, in a region named Thinker's Forum.
It's just based on the idea that survey scouts out cataloguing planets will get bored and latch onto any slightly creative or imaginative scheme they come across... much as suburban town planners do when naming groups of streets.
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Originally Posted by Agemegos
A lot of Australian place-names employ reduplication (Wagga Wagga, Woy Woy, Willi Willi, Nulla Nulla) because reduplication was an inflection in many Aboriginal languages, producing plurals and acting as an intensifier. Spike Milligan's mother lived at Woy Woy, and when he was told that it meant "deep water" he wondered which "Woy" means "deep" and which "Woy" means "water". |
I forget if it was Spike Milligan or someone else, but this reminds me of the line from some old comedy sketch, "... Wagga Wagga, which means 'place of many crows... place of many crows.'"