05-06-2022, 05:59 PM | #21 | |
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Planet "Some religious or ideological reference" Planet "Classical mythological character" (you will run out of these but as long as you have it go with custom). Planet "A relation of mine" Planet "Weird event happened here" Planet "Just happens to remind me of something" Planet "I'm to tired to think of anything"
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05-06-2022, 06:42 PM | #22 | |
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05-06-2022, 09:09 PM | #23 |
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And typos. Nome Alaska there was a dot on the map and someone wrote name? and was read as Nome.
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05-06-2022, 10:36 PM | #24 | |
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But many of the names of Alaskan towns are odd due to orthography issues for native names... Igagigagik is (I've been told by a resident" supposed to be closer to Iqagigagiq. (The q being the "back of mouth k", not quite the same as the German CH nor the Russian Х.) And it's a different place from Iggagik. Oh, and Wasilla is "wah-sill-ah", and yes, it's a reversal of "all I saw"... not a native derived name. |
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06-02-2022, 06:22 AM | #25 |
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"Big" might work but there is nothing in space that is particularly big, or high or otherwise has an obvious relation with anything else. Even "gas giants" may dwarf planets but aren't big compared to space.By contrast Mississippi, Superior, etc reference something obviously really big (and in Superiors case higher than some things).
A famous PR scam. Hence "Greenland". Though Vinland was not so obnoxious: you can get grapes there I believe (fruit wines and brandies were more famous in the area for a long time). A political upheaval in the past, hence the rather cheeky "New Mexico" (though one wonders if "England" without even adding the qualification of New is not more cheeky). Oh and don't forget all those European towns that have multiple names that changed every war.
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06-03-2022, 05:07 AM | #26 | |
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Any who grew up watching Star Trek: TOS or Doctor Who will find many of these names sound familiar. Similarly, fans of Golden Age Sci Fi will also get some nostalgia with these names. The reason is that many of those writers drew their planetary names, consciously or not, from similar sources.
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06-03-2022, 05:10 AM | #27 | |
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The Big River doesn't need to be especially big, it just needs to be bigger than the Muddy River, the Ugly Fish River and Zack's Cabin Stream the locals who originally called it than needed to distinguish it from. The fact that there are 300 bigger rivers on the planet didn't matter - they weren't settled near them and didn't need to talk about them. Yeah OK Zack's Cabin Stream is actually the headwaters of the biggest river system on the planet, but right where we were when we named it, it's much tinier than the Big River that flows 40 miles into Funny Shaped Lake.
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06-06-2022, 04:31 PM | #30 |
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I used to think that the Watery River down in North Carolina had a weird name. But once I heard that Maekong as Maekong River means "river," and thus the Maekong River was literally the River River, I decided that Watery wasn't such a bad name for a river.
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