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"You know, I'm really starting to think these folks think words are just a series of sounds bereft of meaning." (http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/5.html , somewhere nearish the bottom)
Well.. not "bereft of meaning", but maybe having different meaning than the standard? (Then again, surmounting an established meaning is something else again.)
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baxil's journal today and found a survey for evaluating whether one's RPG character was reasonably original or not, and one of the criteria was whether its name contained certain (common) elements: moon, rain, fire... Anyway, judging by that, a name such as "ivy nightseed" (let's never mind how ridiculous it sounds on its own) would lose mass points. And even though I don't necessarily set store by such, I figure that it's a reasonable gauge of how "others in general" would perceive such a name. I definitely don't want to be thought of as "cheesy" (especially since I'm already at a disadvantage because of... various things).
Well.. not "bereft of meaning", but maybe having different meaning than the standard? (Then again, surmounting an established meaning is something else again.)
I clicked a link off
baxil's journal today and found a survey for evaluating whether one's RPG character was reasonably original or not, and one of the criteria was whether its name contained certain (common) elements: moon, rain, fire... Anyway, judging by that, a name such as "ivy nightseed" (let's never mind how ridiculous it sounds on its own) would lose mass points. And even though I don't necessarily set store by such, I figure that it's a reasonable gauge of how "others in general" would perceive such a name. I definitely don't want to be thought of as "cheesy" (especially since I'm already at a disadvantage because of... various things).