Saturday, May 14, 2005

Random Name Generator

Since I like to write Sci Fi sometimes, and you always have to think of names for the people in these future, not-quite-like-now societies, I devised the idea of a "Random Name Generator":

This thing would take a consonant or consonant combination (like "th"), then a vowel (long or short), then another cononant or combo, and that would be a guy's name.

For instance:
The first consonant would randomly come up with the sound |l|, the second would come up with a short 'e', and the third would come up with randomly a |k|. Then the character in the story would be named "Lek".

For girls, it would be the same, but with another vowel at the end, so a girl who had gotten the above random sounds would get a random vowel at the end, and might be "Lecky" or "Leki".

You would get lots of normal guys names like "Ben", "Sam", "Luke", "Dave", etc, but you'd get odd-sounding ones like "Choll" or "Fet", etc, and it'd sound realistic but otherworldy- just the way Sci Fi names should be. Of course if it came up with things like "Shit", we wouldn't saddle our poor hero with that name, but just roll again and come up with something else.

I also thought of writing a book set it a society that named their babies like that, but instead of randomly, just in order. So the first boy born would be "Bab", the second would be "Back", the third, "Bad", and so on. The first girl would be "Babba", then "Babbie", "Babbo", etc. This would be instead of numbers. I don't know how many combinations there would be I'll let someone else have fun with the math on that one.

1 Comments:

Blogger Kyra said...

Hehe, so that's how you thought of my name.. ^_~

May 17, 2005 11:34 PM  

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