Fictional stories are often set in a particular location, andyou want your characters' last names to respect the cultural conventions of names of that place. For instance, if your story is set in ancient Rome, last names like Axius, Gallius, and Octavius would sound truer to the conventions...
FICTIONAL NAMESMINORITIESCOMICSNAME MEANINGThis article provides a brief history of the comic strip Dick Tracy (1931) and its creator, author, and illustrator Chester Gould (1900-1985). Gould was very inventive and creative in naming the characters that populated his strip. He provided distinctive ...
In the world of Avatar, names are drawn from a wide variety of languages and sources. Although many names are transliterated into Chinese characters, the form of writing used in Avatar, most names are not Chinese and are either derived from other languages or completely fictional. ...
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Fun Ragdoll Cat Names Based on Fictional Characters Image Credit: Atmosphere1, Shutterstock Does your Ragdoll cat’s personality remind you of your favorite fictional character? Or maybe there’s a character you’re in love with and want to share that love with your new feline friend. We’ve...
The theory I develop in this essay is that fictional characters are not persons but kinds of persons — that is, person-kinds. After developing a theory of kinds sufficient for the purpose at hand I show how the theory that characters are person-kinds solves many of the puzzles concerning ...
In particular, they seem to imply that fictional names of what are intuitively the same fictional characters which occur in different fictional stories must inevitably differ in content. As a result, speakers whose uses of fictional names are derived from different stories are inevitably talking past...
Stacker compiled the most popular baby names for girls of the last decade in Maine using data from the Social Security Administration.
Choosing Fictional Namesby Jasmine (miami, florida) Question: When trying to write a novel, the thing that gives me the most trouble is picking names. Names of people, names of places, names of ANYTHING. Do you have any advice to help me work through this?
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