gfish | (no subject)

(no subject)

Ever wonder what placenames you would use if you were colonizing a planet? I'm not sure I could resist things like Seattle 2 and New New York.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Awesomeville
Hilaritown
Placegasmic
Old Geezer Geyser
μYork
Sporksylvania
Bisexualdniestr
Squidtopolis
Truth or Consequences: The Next Generation

I'm laughing my dniestr right off. :)

It's spelt (actually, I can't figure out how to spell kiester.)

It makes me terribly happy that the tour guide for Chornobyl knew about Transdniestr when he and I were discussing Soviet remnants and Belarus (and how difficult it is to get Belarus to pull its weight in the CEZ.)

I am moving to your planet so I can live in μYork and commute to my job in νYork.

There should definitely be a Neo Tokyo. Or Neo Neo Tokyo, depending on if the original Tokyo had already been destroyed by giant monsters and rebuilt by that point.

Definitely.

I'm pretty sure that has already happened a couple of times. Technically, shouldn't we be up to New New New New Tokyo?

I also would have a hard time restraining myself from naming places after locales in video games I've played.
From Earthbound: Onett, Twoson, Threed, Fourside
Mushroom Kingdom
Hyrule, Hylia
Etc...

I really liked that Titan AE actually included, upon discovery of a new planet, lines of dialog a lot like

"What should we call it?"
"How about Bob?"
"You can't name a planet Bob!"

And then it cut to a scene set there, with the tagline [Planet Bob] twenty years later or whatever. It always struck me as charming and believably done.

As if that movie hadn't been awesome enough, that exchange was the extra sprinkles on top of the icing.

Somewhere
Overyonder
Farfaraway
Dontgothere
Fantastastan

And of course, Youcan'tgettherefromhere.

I'd have "theme continents". Or maybe geographical features. All mountain ranges might be named after operatic composers, for example.

That's a great idea! Just please decide on a definition of "continent" and make any extracontinental land masses part of a different naming scheme, rather than just grouping them with their political parent's continent's theme.

-- Juli, who has once again had to struggle through a web form that had as a hierarchy: North America/United States/Hawaii, and who dreads entering Russia in to such a form.

Hm, Well, I think I'd name the continents with a scheme that would provide subnames for various smaller landmasses near them, and areas like the Pacific would probably get the satellite names, and have a central name that was equivalent to "Oceania". Hm. And Easter Island would be something silly.

"Land isolated from any significant land mass which is surrounded completely by water where there are bunnies who hide eggs for good little Christian children (and any children enrolled in public schools) to find." That would be an awesome name.

Now I'm thinking of the board from Iron Dragon. Lame themed continents, but themed continents nonetheless.

Spaceattle
Future York
New Kalamazoo

Reminds me when I was a kid, and would spend hours drawing maps of imaginary countries. Usually my placenames were nonsense collections of syllables.

I can't think of specific examples, but I'd leave some kind of place-holder socket for people's names. A new planet is going to have new people names, and as the aquarium 'craps up', they'll want to put those names on their towns.

Haldeman named an orbital station New New York in his Worlds series.

Now that you've mentioned it, there'd have to be a Kalamazoo 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Even if I didn't really want one.

Otherwise I'd use genus names.

Actinomma
Felis
Pongo
Oenanthe

etc etc etc

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only