Law of Alien Names: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' has a lot of made-up or spelling altered names: Tinya, Brin, Luornu, Jo Nah, Wimena... to name a few.

 

* There are plenty of alien personal names in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'': Stal, Keelan, Grynun, Fi'ar, Remlar, Terdan, Lyndess, Grunnel, Brox, As'taris, Ma'ar, Kerrun, Sapsa, Deris, Bayanis... but just try to figure out which ones are male and which are female.

** [[Word of God]] has it that the names are internally consistent based on a scheme of the author's own.

** It is traditional on Pern to name a child with a combination of the first half of the father's name, and second half of the mother's name. This is occasionally abandoned when the result is awkward, or could cause [[Unfortunate Implications|confusion as to paternity]].

** All male dragonrider's names have an apostrophe stuck in: their names are shortened forms of their pre-Impression names. A prequel novel tells us that it is the dragons that first started doing this and that they, at the time, shortened the names of both men and women. Shortened names are meant to be easier and quicker to shout while in the air, which explains why the dragons turned Falarran into F’lar. (The danger of mishearing names is apparently not as important.) After Jaxom Impresses Ruth, Lessa<ref>Additional capital letters available at reception upon request</ref> wryly notes that weyrwomen usually choose names that produce something nice when shortened: J’xom and Jax’m don't quite cut it, to her ears. ([[Fridge Logic]]: J’om is dead easy.)

 

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