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incognitopolls · 6 months

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mananabuffins · 1 month

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People love to obsess about trans people's "real names" but my oldest and cissest brother has gone by a preferred name since he was a toddler and no one cared. (He and my dad have the same first name. He goes by his middle name to avoid confusion.)

So. Y'know. Just a reminder that that argument is bullshit and people only use it because they need ammunition, not because anyone cares about rEaL names.

#names #preferred names #given names #real names #i feel like i should tag this as something queer but it's about my cishet brother calling himself Ryan #so

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abybweisse · 1 year

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How do you think names work for reapers?

Do they get transfered to their afterlife and reapers just have the option to either go by their name or the number? Or do they get to choose their own names once they get reborn as reapers?

Names aren't really official in the human world, at least they aren't for reapers, since they are just ways to identify each other. It would make sense if the dispatch refused to use names of the reapers from when they were alive.

But that leads me to wonder whether UT could actually be Cedric?? Don't get me wrong, I'm fully on board with Grandpa!UT theory, but if he always went by his ID number, that could mean he never chose a name for himself, which would mean Cedric can't be his name since he has no name! That is of course, in the case that reapers have to name themselves.

I might just be thinking a bit too far into this though hehe 😅

Reaper names

Well, now that I'm reading Scythe by Neal Shusterman, I started to consider that perhaps Kuroverse reapers choose completely new names when they become reapers. Much like how royals can choose what name to use when they ascend to the throne or how clergy can choose new names to go by, "scythes" in that book series do this, usually choosing the last name of a scientist they particularly respect. Faraday, Curie, etc. In Kuroshitsuji we've seen a nod to Shakespeare himself, as well as to a priest who wasn't even born until February 17, 1888 (Ronald Knox).

However, we've also seen a Shakespearean character (Othello), a nod to a serial killer who wouldn't be born for several decades (Sutcliff), and two names (in the manga) that seem random (Sascha and Ludger). We haven't been given Sascha's or Ludger's full names -- or Othello's -- but it's probably safe to assume they have them.

It's entirely possible these are their actual names from before they died. If they go through karmic reincarnation (get reborn as reapers with their old souls), these could be the names they were born with as reapers.

The mere fact that Undertaker's name isn't known to Othello, since he preferred to use his registration number, increases the chances of it being Cedric K. Ros-- (whatever that is, like Rosewood, Rosedale, etc.). This allows Yana-san to make us wait even longer to learn the truth about him. Then, for some unknown reason, Undertaker wanted to cut ties with his old self. Even back then.

And Othello makes it sound like they usually go by names they had before they were registered. More specifically, these are "given names".

This suggests that, wherever the names come from, reapers don't typically choose them for themselves. Undertaker, despite being the epitome of a reaper, was breaking customs right from the start by using his registration number.

I'm curious now why Othello just says "most of our kind" instead of "all of our kind, except this one". What other reaper changed their name, and why?

Of course, this all lines up very well with one of Undertaker's parallels in Mother3. There are 7 Magypsies in the game, just as there are 7 named reapers in the manga. (Eric and Alan's names have never been mentioned in the manga; Anderson hasn't either.) They are all named after musical modes: Aeolia, Ionia, Lydia, Doria, Mixolydia, Phrygia, and Locria. Locria deserts the others and changes their name to Fassad (like a façade). We don't learn that Fassad was a Magypsy until a while after they're destroyed. But this works with how Undertaker uses a given number instead of a given name... and then changes it to something else when he deserts his position.

One way to find Undertaker's given name when he chose to go by 136649? Have someone pull his old registration files. The given name he chose not to use should be there. Othello just didn't know because he never looked. Probably never had access to it. But I bet William does. And Sascha and Ludger might have seen it, too, by now. After all, William is sharing intel with them.

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pain-is-my-game · 1 year

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I hate my name

No one says it without asking something of me

When I'm gone they will only speak of the things that I'll never be

Not for myself

Never for myself

A gift from God was the name that you chose

I would have rather been named after a rose

At least then I'd thorns to protect me

At least then I'd be seen

But no I'm just a tiny seed lost in a crowd

And my name sounds repulsive when spoken aloud

Yet i'll never be free because even my name isn't my own

#childhood emotional neglect #sad poetry #on trauma #lonely #loneliness #lonliness #trauma coping #trauma #spilled poetry #trauma poem #trauma poetry #given names #spilled poem #i will never care if you reblog #sad thoughts #thoughts to throw into the void

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namesforthesoul · 2 years

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Alrighty, a question! Don't exactly even need to know, but I'm curious. Which japanese names are used gender neutral? I have heard of a few, like Tsubaki, Akira, Minato and so on, but a list would be nice. On another note, Erika is a japanese name as well as german, right? Like Yuka is both an Inuit and japanese name x3 I do find it funny that complete different ends of the world could have such small things in common.

gender expressions & impressions of jp given names depend on: (1) the precise characters it comprises of, (2) the reading it uses, (3) societal trends and sentiments, and (4) each individual’s personal perception (and experience) of gender and the name. therefore, sooooo many names out there can be considered unisex and/or gender-neutral! there are hundreds of thousands of possible character combinations you can use to create given names, and what’s more to love is that unisex and gender-neutral names are pretty sought-after, especially in the modern day and the foreseeable future. we love our unisex names and we’re very proud of them!

if there’s any specific theme of names you’d like to see, you can send in an ask with your criterias and i’ll compile you a list. besides my gdoc of rare and unusual jp given names i shared in my previous post, i also have this gdoc of generic/basic/average jp given names you can sort through if you’d like.

indeed, erika and yuka are names that can exist in the jp language. maybe this tip will help with remembering and identification? you can make given names out of almost any set of syllables from the japanese syllabary, as long as it’s within reason (e.g. sounds good as a name, seems logical or plausible, 1–5 syllables in one name, etc.).

(apologies for the deep-fried quality haha—this is the only kana-to-romaji chart i have ever saved, because i prefer linguistic charts to be as plain-colored, plain-fonted, and plain-formatted as possible.)

for clan/family names however, the rules aren’t as lax because most of them follow kanji and the most standard readings for said kanji. a small % of family names have a mix of kanji + kana in them, which still follow the standard readings of the kanji + of course the unchangeable readings of the kana. only very few (native, non-transcribed) family names out there are entirely written in kana (a real-life example of this is つわぶき峻 Tsuwabuki Toshi, the stage actor who played sakusa in the haikyuu stageplay). oh, and, because we can never have too many exceptions, jp culture also has this very unique occurrence where sometimes, some certain family names get to be as lax as given names in terms of the grapheme-to-phoneme relation, and some people have decided use this opportunity to be very punny wordplayers. these are very few in number, however, and they have history behind them! so i wouldn’t recommend the average writer/artist/fictionist to come up with some on their own. examples of this last one:

一 Ninomae | 一 means “one” | “ninomae” sounds like you’re saying 二の前, “before two”

小鳥遊 Takanashi | 小鳥遊 means “small birds play” | “takanashi” sounds like you’re saying 鷹無し, “there are no hawks/eagles” | ergo, small birds play outside because there’s no hawk preying around.

四月朔日/四月一日/四月朔/四月朔月 Watanuki | 四月朔日/四月一日 means “first of april” | “watanuki” refers to this word 綿抜き, “cotton-stripping; to take out the cotton [padding]” | there’s an old tradition of changing winter-wear cotton-lined warming robes and kimono into lighter summer-wear garments in the 1st day of the 4th lunar month, which is said to prevent children from suffering diseases and potentially dying. i’m a bit confused at what the big deal is with this tradition, because it just seems like common sense to me? seasons change and so do your clothes. that’s normal.

月見里 Yamanashi | 月見里 means “moon-viewing village” | “yamanashi” sounds like you’re saying 山無し, “there are no mountains” | ergo, you can see the moon and do some stargazing if your view isn’t obstructed by mountains. although, i have to point out the fallacy in this logic, as someone who lives surrounded by 3 whole mountain ranges, i know fully well that mountains only obscure a very small % to none at all of your ground view of the night sky. “starless” nights are all the clouds and pollution’s fault! so really, this name should’ve been called Kumonashi (from 雲無し, “cloudless”) instead.

i could’ve sworn i knew more than 4 of these punny family names...

(edit: i found more!)

飛鳥 Asuka | 飛鳥 means “flying bird” | “asuka” refers to the place name 明日香 (“tomorrow fragrance”) | basically, what happened here is that the word 飛鳥 (hichou), coming from the phrase 飛ぶ鳥の (tobu tori no, “flying bird of...”), became a pillow word for the place known as Asuka. both spellings were historically interchangeable.

春日 Haruma, Kasuga, Kasuka | 春日 means “spring sun; spring day” | the word 春日 (shunjitsu/haruhi) was used as a pillow word to introduce the place name Kasuga (which presumably had no kanji writing prior to this?). existing logical readings for 春日 include Haruhi and Haruka.

漢 Hata | 漢 means “han chinese”, the worldwide major ethnic group originating in china | “hata” sounds like you’re saying はた/端, “nearby; besides”

日向 Higa, Higano, Hina, Hinada, Hinata, Hiuga (Fiuga), Hyuga, Hyuuga | 日向 means “in the sun; [facing] towards the sun” | (1) for the Hinata reading; this name is composed of 日 (hi, “sun”) +‎ な (na, old japanese possessive particle, equivalent to modern の) +‎ た (ta, “direction; side”, archaic equivalent of 方). (2) for the Fiuga, Hiuga, and Hyuuga readings; dialectal differences shifted old japanese reading “Pimuka” into “Fimuka” → “Fiuga” → “Hiuga”. southern dialects and languages tend to have this fi- sound that’s nonexistent up in the north. (3) Hiruga may be explained as 「昼日」 (hiru + ka, “daytime sun”) with a rendaku 日 (turning the “-ka” into “-ga”, which is unnecessary, because rendaku doesn’t commonly happen to 日, but everything is full of exceptions today, so... 🤷). existing logical readings of 日向 include Hikou, Himuka, Himukai, Himuki, and Nikkou.

陽向 Hizashi | 陽向 means “in the sun; [facing] towards the sun” | “hizashi” sounds like you’re saying 日差し (may also be written 陽差し、日射し、陽射し、日ざし、陽ざし、日差、or 陽射), “sunlight; sunshine; sun rays”

五十嵐 Igarashi | 五十嵐 means “fifty storms/tempests” | “igarashi” sounds like you’re saying 伊賀嵐, “iga [city] storm” | i believe this may be a reference to the huge storm in 1612 which destroyed the famous iga-ueno castle.

五月雨 Samidare | 五月雨 means “fifth [lunar] month rain”, referring to the heavy rains that occur around early summer | “samidare” sounds like you’re saying 早水垂れ, “early rain fall” | this is a word (for the seasonal occurrence), a place name, and a destroyer name; not family name. i just thought it was cool enough to mention here!

時雨 Shigure | 時雨 means “timely rain; winter rainfall” (originally referred to rainshowers in late autumn to early winter, occasionally late summer and all of autumn too, but today, shigure only refers to a winter rainshower) | “shigure” sounds like you’re saying the classical/literary verb 時雨れる, “to rain a shower” | the history is a bit blurry on this one. 時雨, as a word, was an orthographic borrowing from chinese. it happened a hefty long time ago, and was incorporated into old japanese as the classical verb 時雨る (shiguru), which was later given the modern rendering 時雨れる (shigureru), which then presumably became the clan name Shigure.

日本 Yamatono | 日本 means “base/foundation/origin of the sun” and is the modern name for japan | “yamatono” sounds like you’re saying 大和の, “of the yamato people’s” | 大和 (yamato) was the ancient name for japan before it was changed to 日本 (nihon/nippon), and also the name of an ancient province, the name of the current dynasty (and consequently, the imperial family as well), the name of an old battleship, and is sometimes still used to refer to japanese people in a historic way. it’s worth noting that the reading of “yamato” itself isn’t grammatically logical for the kanji 大和. my best theories as to how 大和 became yamato are: (1) homophone of 山都 (“mountain metropolis”), (2) homophone of 山門 (“mountain gateway”), and (3) homophone of 山人 (“mountain people”); but i haven’t seen any proper, in-depth linguistic study done on this, so i can’t guarantee anything. the kanji 倭 [yamato, shitaga.u | wa, i] was likely based on 大和 after it got its “yamato” reading, so 倭 isn’t an important factor in this discussion (as of right now, at least).

hope this answers your curiosity!

#japanese names #japanese language #japanese linguistics #japanese culture #japanese family names #names #given names #family names #sino family names #sinitic names #sinosphere #onomastics #unisex & gender-neutral #japanese wordplays #japanese puns #gdoc links #skipper answers #rlppl: iced baby

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lemonyoatmilk · 1 year

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A list of given names for the people of Pendathi, ie the City State where my book 'The Sun Eternal' is centred in.

The language evolved from medieval Welsh, filtered through 10 thousand years of isolation. Thus i derived most of these from modern Welsh names, though I did keep some names unchanged and keen eyes would spot them.

#writing #worldbuilding #fantasy #language #welsh language #The Sun Eternal #given names

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thellamaisnotdead · 1 year

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The other day, someone asked my name and I introduced myself by my last name, as I sometimes do. Someone I know overhead and asked me if they had been calling me by the wrong name all this time. I shrugged noncommittally and said that anything is okay.

I know this frustrates people, but I have never minded being called by the 'wrong' name, as my given name has never felt particularly 'right'. I simply haven't had anything better to give people.

#names #given names #nameless ghouls #stories #my thoughts

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rosered-schneeweisschens-sis · 2 years

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trying to name a character

with a popular American name from sometime between last year and 1880?

then check out ssa.gov’s Baby Names database to explore by birth year, decade, U.S. state or territory, and number of births or percent of total births.

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catciety · 1 year

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GIVEN NAMES AND their nature lend to a youth culture among cats who are coming of age. In order to ensure they dont get stuck with a lame name, often take to daring or excessive exploits to earn a name they may have in mind. Climbing the highest tree they can find, killing a strange or powerful animal, racing across a frozen lake as it breaks, trying to solve a community problem to be a hero and earn a name they can take pride in.. though adults understand they dont necessarily encourage this as it usually ends up being dangerous, deadly, obstructive, or embarrassing. but usually do not intervene unless it could be deadly. not every adolescent cares, but enough do to have cats understand "oh well, you know theyre of that age" when they see aberrant behavior of cats that just stopped being kittens.

The behavior is rarely rewarding, though, as its based off of what people know or think or see of you.

One prime example is of a Quarry cat that wanted to climb the highest tree they could and kill a bird mid flight, but they simply fell out of the tree. this exploit was remembered, and they earned the name Acorn... as it was an Oak tree they fell from.

most names that come from exciting or significant events are unpredictable, as you can never know when these events happen, and are often earned in adulthood due to statistical probability (see Hawkrider or Lakebreaker) (a cat that lives to 20 will only have 5% of their life spent under 1 year old)

#given names

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pansexualnonbinaryintrovert · 2 years

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My dad coaches a kid called Aristotle right. Which is a really cool name. And anyway, I had someone come up to me while dad was on court with Aristotle and they said "Oh, Aristotle... That's a bit of a weird name huh?" And I just look dat them like ??? I wanted so badly to just yell "I know someone called Bread. What's you're fucking point?!" But I didn't cos that would be rude so instead I pretended to not get their point over and over again until they realised how dumb and mean they sounded

#lol #memes #lgbtq #nonbinary #given names

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kittynslitterbox · 2 years

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52 Female & Male Names

A ♀ Ana & Alexa ♂ Andrew & Anthony B ♀ Bethany & Bryony ♂ Blake & Bastian C ♀ Camil{l}a & Cassandra ♂ Chase & Christopher D ♀ Daniela & Darcy ♂ Darian & Dominic E ♀ Erin & Eleanor ♂ Earl & Eric F ♀ Freja & Fallon ♂ Franscisco & Fabian G ♀ Gwendolyn & Genevieve ♂ Garth & Gabriel H ♀ Heather & Harley ♂ Henry & Heath I ♀ Isabelle & Irene ♂ Isaac & Ian J ♀ Juliet & Jewel ♂ Jon & Joseph K ♀ Kennedy & Kiara ♂ Kayden & Kyle L ♀ Lili & Leia ♂ Lucifer & Lukas M ♀ Mila & Melina ♂ Magnus & Maximus N ♀ Natalie & Nicole ♂ Nash & Nicholas O ♀ Opal & Olivia ♂ Oliver & Oscar P ♀ Priscilla & Penelope ♂ Philip & Peter Q ♀ Quinn & Qendressa ♂ Quinten & Quincy R ♀ Reagan & Rory ♂ Richard & Royal S ♀ Sara & Sophie ♂ Sean & Scott T ♀ Taylor & Tanya ♂ Thaddeus & Timothy U ♀ Ursula & Ulrike ♂ Uberto & Ulysses V ♀ Veronica & Viviana ♂ Victor & Vincent W ♀ Willow & Wanda ♂ William & Wyatt X ♀ Xanthe & Xenia ♂ Xander & Xavier Y ♀ Yolanda & Yvette ♂ Yael & Yorke Z ♀ Zola & Zoey ♂ Zachary & Zolan If you are interested in the meaning and/ or origin of any or all of these names just let me know and will do another post with them

#sims 4 #given names

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ufolvr · 8 months

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Robot characters who are given names like SL-308-62 but instead of their human friend going Well let's call you Sally for short, they instead ask the other if they Like their current name.

"Do you like your serial number?" they ask. "Yes, quite. It reminds me of who I am" the robot replies. "I have heard others like me go by different names after some time, and maybe one day I'll choose one for myself, too. But right now that is my full name, yes" they continue.

Because it's not your decision to make whether or not the robot will receive a new name. It should be theirs only. What's the difference? One is more complex and the other is simplified. They were both given by strangers instead of themselves.

"62 will do," they conclude. "It's my model number - there will be no other 62 after me."

#silly example #just thinking about seven threes full serial number. i appreciate that its current given name stems from it #not in a dehumanizing way. not to me. thats who it is.#📡 incoming transmission 📡#self insert #selfshipping #selfship #self ship #robot f/o #robots

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revilermpls · 1 month

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The (Local) Fresh Five (Current Scouting Report Edition): Kate Malanaphy, She's Green, Molly Brandt, Hazelcreak, and Given Names

We recently got to participate in 89.3 the Current’s Scouting Report for Minnesota Music Month (April). The station is crowdsourcing a list of best new local artists by canvassing a number of people involved in music media in the state. It’s sort of like Picked To Click (RIP) but with much better clarity and guard rails. Contributors were limited to selecting bands that released their first…

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#2024 #band #Current #Given Names #Hazelcreak #Kate Malanaphy #minnesota #Molly Brandt #scouting report #she&039;s green

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artjipson · 4 months

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11 Questions with... Given Names

Happy New Year to everyone! Welcome to 2024! The new year opens with the return of our 11 Questions with… column. Given Names is an exciting new project from Dr. J’s home state of Minnesota. That state has always been home to thrilling music such as The Replacements, Husker Du, Soul Asylum, Prince, Semisonic, Babe in Toyland, The Jayhawks, The Suburbs, and many more. Given Names is a group of…