Posted by names??? on December 30, 1999 at 09:46:42:
In Reply to: Um.... posted by Umguy on December 30, 1999 at 08:34:18:
> Tancossin is a stupid-ass name once you realize where you got it. It's like naming yourself Roygbiv or something. > Chris is a perfectly acceptable name. Christopher (chris for short) is a name that I'm quite certain people had in medievil times. I'm not sure what your problem is about this. > Rhonda isn't a name that has been around for as long as Christopher (at least, I don't think so) but still it is a perfectly fine name. Regular person names are fine, as far as I'm concerned. The key to a name is think about it really hard...would parents who loved a child really name it this? I doubt Tancossin prompts the answer "yes" to this question, unless it's a moron answering. > I think the main key here is the roleplay (which will develop as the char grows in levels). I wouldn't mind seeing a char named Steve (though there are immortals with this as a first name, and so I could see them not wanting a Steve running around...their prerogative) but if this hypothetical Steve character started signing his notes "Stone Cold" and doing emotes about hitting people with a chair and/or bodyslamming them, I'd find that distracting. thats not my point...youll notice when you type in a new chars name, it asks you if that name is unique, or is in dictionary etc...obviously, chris and rhonda are both common in todays world
which means they arent unique...