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{{quote|'''Tim:''' I... am an Enchanter.
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** According to [[Character Blog|Chistopher's blog]], the names are assigned.
*** Also some of the aliens ''love'' their human names.
** In the context of the movie's rather obvious allegory, this reflects some nasty
* From ''[[Over the Hedge (animation)|Over the Hedge]]'':
{{quote|'''Stella the Skunk:''' So, you got a name?
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** Then there's Ed the shark (full name Ed'Rastekeresket t'k Gh'shestaesteh). And Filif (Filifermanhathrhumneits'elhhessaifnth) the tree-like alien. And, too, S'reee (S'reee a!hruuniAoul-mmeiihnhwiii!r) the humpback whale. The author really likes this trope, it seems.
** Roshaun almost completely inverts this trope; his full name consists of a laundry list of fancy alien titles and honorifics (The longest we see is Roshaun ke Nelaid am Seriv am Teliuyve am Meseph am Veliz am Teriaunst am det Wellakhit). He insists on reciting the full version whenever introduced, and attempts to get everyone else to call him by this too, mostly because of his royalty complex, rather than offering a shortened name. Naturally, Dairine ignores this.
** No
* The tinker gnomes of ''[[Dragonlance]]'' have names that fill several volumes in the great library of Mount Nevermind, which include their full family tree and any notable accomplishments from their lives. When talking amongst each other, they use a shortened version which "only" takes about a minute to say. The other races have a tendency to only use the first 2-3 syllables of a gnome's name, a practice they find demeaning.
** Even the name of the Tinker Gnomes' ''mountain'' falls under this
** Not to mention the names of some of the elves - although those are [[The Unpronounceable|easier on the tongue...]]
* In ''[[Wild Cards]]'', Doctor Tachyon's actual name is Prince Tisianne brant Ts'ara sek Halima sek Ragnar sek Omian of House Ilkazam (and that's just his first name; his full name would list his genealogy for the last thousand generations). The American scientists and military men he makes first contact with are endlessly corrected on how it's said, and mispronouncing it is quite the insult. So he is given the much-simpler nickname Dr. Tachyon.
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** This is, however, nothing in comparison to the accumulated names of senior Adeptus Custodes (the Emperor's personal guard), whose names are inscribed onto the insides of their armour starting at the collar and wind around the inside. Some are so long that they fill all the available space on the inside of the armour and wind round onto the outside - Constantin Valdor, Captain of the Custodes and personal acquaintance of the Emperor and several Primarchs, had a name over ''1900'' elements long.
* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has some dark elven Houses with official and shorter common names. Try to say three times, for example, "[[The Dark Elf Trilogy|Drizzt]] Daermon N'a'shezbaernon", and you'll see why "Do'Urden" was used more often. For that matter, archaic High Drow as a whole is reserved mainly for ritual or official use and so different from the everyday dialect that few drow but priestesses can understand it.
* Gnomes in ''[[Eberron]]'' are said to collect names like friends, and usually choose the
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** But call her Dotty [[Berserk Button|and you die]].
* Princess Kidagakash from ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]''. Unable to pronounce her name, Milo asks if she has a nickname. It's Kida. (The man is a linguist, and can't handle four syllables?)
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* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' has Larry from "Fractured"'. His real name is [[Sdrawkcab Name|nosyarG kciD]]. But Beast Boy had trouble pronouncing it, so he suggested the alternate name, which Larry liked.
* ''[[Ivor The Engine]]'': Ivor's official title is The locomotive of The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited.
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* Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso.
* Pedro de Alcântara Francisco António João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbon, A.K.A. Pedro I, first Emperor of Brazil.
* Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Ducas Komnenos Gagliardi de Curtis of Byzantium, His Imperial Highness, Palatine Count, Knight of the Holy Roman Empire, Exarch of Ravenna, Duke of Macedonia and Illyria, Prince of Constantinople, Cilicia, Thessaly, Ponthus, Moldavia, Dardania, Peloponnesus, Count of Cyprus and Epirus, Count and Duke of Drivasto and Durazzo, actor, poet, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZnOmjj_Suw composer]... better known as [[wikipedia:
* More a matter of having an [[The Unpronounceable|unpronounceable]] first name than an overly long set of names (although the surname is pretty unwieldy by itself), but Alabama State basketballer Grlenntys Chief Kickingstallionsims Jr. uses his middle name. The last name is still there.
* Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette... better known to Americans simply as Lafayette.
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** There is also, of course, '''Nero''' Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, whose birth name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
** And finally, we have Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, who is known not by any of these names, but by his childhood nickname '''[[Emperor Caligula|Caligula]]'''.
*** A common problem with Roman names. Most Roman families chose among just a few names for
* Lake
** The lake is most often called Webster Lake, after the town it's located in.
* One famous child in China was almost named @. Yes, @.
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* A Swedish couple once tried to name their child Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116. It was pronounced Albin. When they were forbidden, they tried to call him "a". Also pronounced Albin. Both of these were in protest of the naming laws.
* There's the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales in the UK, which is rendered on road signs as "Llanfair P.G.".
* Greek was the lingua franca of the eastern Mediterranean in antiquity. Hebrew has some sounds and naming conventions that give Greek speakers fits (in particular, Greek doesn't have a "sh" sound). So many biblical Jewish figures are now known by Greekified versions of their names--"Moshe" became "Moses", "Shlomo" became "Solomon", and most notably, "Yeshua" became "Jesus". If a Jew did any traveling, he'd be pretty likely to also have a Greek name just to make it easier on other
* <s>German Minister of Defense</s> German Politician Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp [http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/2211220 Wilhelm] Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg.
* Many Catholics have many more names than their public persona admits to. German composers Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus ("Wolfgang") Theophilus ("Amadeus") Mozart and Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian ("Max") Reger, for example.
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