Post by account_disabled on Dec 14, 2023 0:47:05 GMT -6
If you look at a geographical map, you can easily understand how place names have different spellings depending on the country. So why not follow this "rule" in fantasy? This, of course, if multiple peoples are involved in your history. This is even more so if extraterrestrials are present in a science fiction story. The writer will have to follow the conventions that he will adopt in creating his people and the places they live in. As I wrote in the post on names, the writer Anne McCaffrey used just such a convention to define the names of some of her characters, the dragonriders, starting from a structure and thus diversifying those names from the others.
It is not a question of inventing new languages - although no one forbids us to do so, if we are able - but of using structures, roots, methods, which will lead to making names and places proper to a Phone Number Data nation that we have invented. Structure the names The first problem to face is therefore looking for the right structure to create names of places and characters, always depending on the historical-geographical context in which our story is set. We cannot move away from that context, because it represents our guideline for building the setting. We can use other known languages, or invent roots from which to form names.
Names that can recall Anglo-Saxon ones for example, as happens in A Song of Ice and Fire , even if there are names there that recall other languages, typical of other populations. There must therefore be a certain coherence in the creation of the names, so that the reader does not remain disoriented or find a carelessness in the nomenclature, as if the writer had invented those names without thinking too much about it, a feeling I had while reading some fantasy novels.Chapter IV – Schizophrenia of a dead man Poor Giacomo Arrighi was in the hands of the medical examiner. Still terrified by the impressive discovery, clutching the severed head in a gesture of pitiful protection, Burlando observed in horror the decapitated body lying on the table, wondering who on earth it could belong to. Certainly not to Mr.
It is not a question of inventing new languages - although no one forbids us to do so, if we are able - but of using structures, roots, methods, which will lead to making names and places proper to a Phone Number Data nation that we have invented. Structure the names The first problem to face is therefore looking for the right structure to create names of places and characters, always depending on the historical-geographical context in which our story is set. We cannot move away from that context, because it represents our guideline for building the setting. We can use other known languages, or invent roots from which to form names.
Names that can recall Anglo-Saxon ones for example, as happens in A Song of Ice and Fire , even if there are names there that recall other languages, typical of other populations. There must therefore be a certain coherence in the creation of the names, so that the reader does not remain disoriented or find a carelessness in the nomenclature, as if the writer had invented those names without thinking too much about it, a feeling I had while reading some fantasy novels.Chapter IV – Schizophrenia of a dead man Poor Giacomo Arrighi was in the hands of the medical examiner. Still terrified by the impressive discovery, clutching the severed head in a gesture of pitiful protection, Burlando observed in horror the decapitated body lying on the table, wondering who on earth it could belong to. Certainly not to Mr.