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[WillowLuman]

Who cares about memes? I'll use them from now on, I just wanted to see what ideas other people had for nationality-themed generic names. There needs to be a better one for kobolds, if they should even have one (what with being Utterances). Kobold Theifson doesn't sound too good.

[Corai]

Im on in, I'll be back with one.


I dont know when, but I will.

[Nyan Thousand]

Yep. Elfenstein. Ranger Elfenstein. Trader Elfenstein. Cacame Elfenstein.

[WillowLuman]

You know, it's grown on me. Acita Elfenstein it is!

Now I will deal only with Acita Traderstein and all invaders shall be Ulspa Invaderberg. Or Trader Elfenstein and Mace Goblinberg. Maceberg?

[WealthyRadish]

The 'Urist' meme, if you could call it that, was due to people overtly referencing the popular story featuring a shedwarf named Urist. Trying to force it by picking arbitrary names and sticking random prefixes on them isn't going to work, as stated.

[WillowLuman]

This thread is mainly about personal preference. I don't care about starting a meme. I just wanted to iron out a shorthand for other races like the one that dwarves now have, since it doesn't seem quite right when people use Urist McElf. These are mostly for my own use and whoever likes them. Mainly I want to find out what other people think would be best/funniest for it, seeing as I ran out of good ideas after goblins.

[weenog]

If it's about personal preference, why aren't you keeping it personal, and what does it have to do with trying to define everyone else's shorthand and metasyntactic variables?

[Berlioz]

Germany and elves doesn't really match, "Bruno von Elfhausen zu Elfenach"? Please! (The -ach is a voiceless velar fricative, like in the Scottish "loch". I love the sound!)
Maybe Wilhelm Hohenelfern or Friedrich von Elfen-Coburg und Gotha? They have incredible complicated names for their nobility.
Oh and it's "der elf", not "das elf", usually elves have no neutral gender, maybe if you have an androgyn one...

Edit: Oh and it took me ten minutes to find "voiceless velar fricative" in wikipedia. But now I have learned something!

[billybobfred]

The 'Urist' meme, if you could call it that, was due to people overtly referencing the popular story featuring a shedwarf named Urist. Trying to force it by picking arbitrary names and sticking random prefixes on them isn't going to work, as stated.

They're not "arbitrary". Other than "Kobold", they're the respective languages' words for "dagger", just as Urist is.

[Muddy Mudstone]

Etymologically, elf is from German alp -> Old Norse alfr ->Anglo-Saxon ælf, preserved in the name "Alfred", meaning elf-counsel. Kobold comes from German, and is still German. Goblin is from Old French gobelin, which might be derived from kobold.

Dwarf went on a similar journey to elf (German zwerg, Old Norse dvergr, Old English dweorh) and human came from Latin through French. To assign each race a different nationality on the basis of word origins, a reasonable arrangement would be: elves and dwarfs are Norwegian, kobolds are German, goblins are French and humans are Italian.

[MadocComadrin]

Edit: Oh and it took me ten minutes to find "voiceless velar fricative" in wikipedia. But now I have learned something!

And to learn something more, that particular consonant sound is written

Code: [Select]

[x] in the IPA and is used mainly following a vowel sound where the tongue is in the back of the mouth.

[WillowLuman]

@Weenog: Mainly personal preference, but as you can see other people have opinions about it, and this is the place for them.

[dizzyelk]

French goblins eh?

"Oh-ho! I am Pierre Le Babesnatchier! Here to lay siege to your fortress and eat your cheese."

Now I have to mod in berets for them. Too bad there are no cigarettes for them.

[WillowLuman]

French humans, Norweigan goblins (Goblinberg).

Les Goblins, nous n'aimes pas les stereotypes! C'est porqoui ils envahir les nains racistes!

[slink]

If anything, I've always thought of the Humans as German because of the umlaut over their "U".  But I never think of them by names, because Humans are not My People.  Elves are too strange to name, and the rest are just body parts that haven't come apart yet.