writing/reading
Weekend stuff later including the reason for more posts like this one.
Just reading a review for ASif! complaining about character names. The all time best (read 'worst') names I ever read in a SF novel were in a Star Trek:TNG novelisation I read. (Yes, that's right, I HATE Moby Dick and LOVE Star Trek, pigeon hole me as you will) Should I tell you that worse than that, this was a getting-together of Will and Deanna. Yeah I was a sucker for that relationship till she hooked up with Worf.
Anyway!
In this novel they had to go to Betazed for some reason and there we found our four archenemies for the story. And the names they'd been given were something like - Maror, Beyza, Charosed (I AM SO NOT MAKING THIS UP) and I forget the fourth. So the translation for these are: Bitter Herbs, Egg and I dunno the third (mortar? I dunno its a mixture of grated apples, hazelnuts and whatnot). In other words, the writer had picked up things off the Passover Plate and given them to his bad guys in the story - as though no other Jew would ever read this book!
What are the worst character names you've ever read or tried to pull off?
Just reading a review for ASif! complaining about character names. The all time best (read 'worst') names I ever read in a SF novel were in a Star Trek:TNG novelisation I read. (Yes, that's right, I HATE Moby Dick and LOVE Star Trek, pigeon hole me as you will) Should I tell you that worse than that, this was a getting-together of Will and Deanna. Yeah I was a sucker for that relationship till she hooked up with Worf.
Anyway!
In this novel they had to go to Betazed for some reason and there we found our four archenemies for the story. And the names they'd been given were something like - Maror, Beyza, Charosed (I AM SO NOT MAKING THIS UP) and I forget the fourth. So the translation for these are: Bitter Herbs, Egg and I dunno the third (mortar? I dunno its a mixture of grated apples, hazelnuts and whatnot). In other words, the writer had picked up things off the Passover Plate and given them to his bad guys in the story - as though no other Jew would ever read this book!
What are the worst character names you've ever read or tried to pull off?