Blakes7 January 2002

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Re: Fanfic character Names - Consonants Fist
by seven＠gaudaprime.com 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Sally >>and that brings us to another point, names. How do people go about >>picking/creating names, Leia > With difficulty. It's something I find a pain in the backside. I > tend to modify ordniary real-world names or recombine bits of two or > more different ones. Respell things. My Welsh names book has been > used to death - mostly respelled. David Here is a suggestion you might find useful for generating sf names: Arrange the consonants in some sort of order from 0 to 9, pick a number, convert the digits in said number to consonants, then insert vowels as appropriate. One system and mnemonic I use arranges the consonants as follows: 0 Z, C, S, Ts, Dz (Z for zero) 1 T, D, Th (T contains one down-stroke) 2 N, NG (N has two strokes) 3 M (three strokes) 4 R (last letter in fouR) 5 L (Latin for fifty) 6 Sh, Ch, Zh, J (no easy mnemonic) 7 K, G, Kh (K is a seven leaning against a wall) 8 F, V (Hand-written lower-case F looks like an eight) 9 P, B (P looks like a mirrored nine) Now pick a number: 74217; convert to consonants: K R N T K; and insert vowels: KRiNToK. This gives Mr. Krintok's surname. Once the basic material is discovered, the name can be tweaked as appropriate, and meanings inserted. As for the name Servalan, I think of it as coming from serf: most everyone is her serf / servant; she is a serf to her outer nature, and so on. Also, a clue is given in Gambit that the name Servalan is related to Service, when Krantor pauses in the following sentence: Krantor: What is this life if we cannot be of some service to our fellows? DC

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Re: [B7L] Re: B7 names
by Sally M 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

Meg wrote: "Looking at my latest Baby Name book: Vila: (Czech) wilful. A form of William." I like that - he *is* in his own way (Shadow, anyone?) _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Re: [B7L] Re: B7 names
by Meg 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

> Neil wrote: > > Nico wrote: > > > I can't pick what language Vila Restal would come from. > > > > According to my pocket Russian-English dictionary, 'vila' means > 'pitchfork'. > > Hey, interesting, though I doubt they knew that. Maybe if it meant > picklock... :-) Can't see Vila as a son of the soil though. Me either. but 'picklock' -> 'lockpick'... would have been fate for the poor child. ;) > It's also a Hispanic surname in the US (e.g. Bob Vila). But I doubt Terry > Nation chose it for that either. Maybe he meant it as a future version of > William, or was thinking subconsciously of villains and arrest... Looking at my latest Baby Name book: Vila: (Czech) wilful. A form of William. On the other hand, most *short* names have probably turned up somewhere sometime. Even if the writer invents them, chances are that someone else came up with them before them. Especially if they're variants of a common current name. Soolin I haven't found anywhere though. Meg.

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Re: [B7L] Blake's 7 and Stargate
by Sally M 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

Dana wrote: <....except that one of Blake's innumerable problems is that Blake's chain of command extends to exactly one individual: Cally. Nobody else really accepts his legitimacy as a commander, and he's certainly in no position to enforce it.> Theoretically, maybe, but it's more that they don't accept the importance of his political agenda. The fact (rather painful if they let themselves think about it) is that for all Jenna's "we don't take command" - they *do*, they do what he says just about all the time. You can't claim that "nobody else really accepts his legitimacy as a commander" if they all obey him anyway, even when they don't want to, even when - as in Voice - they *know* it's a bad idea (if that's not legitimacy, it's a pretty good fake :-)) I agree that it's a short chain of command - Blake rules and there *is* no second right up until the end. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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androids
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

Would Vinni have been created at the same time as Robot Avalon? And why, if cloning and the creation of artificial species is frowned upon(which is contradicted by 'Animals' and, possibly, the links) is there not a similar policy towards the creation of lifelike robots? In 'Project Avalon' however the exchange between Servalan and the scientist which indicates that such robots were fairly common (standard model ... will do). (And why is Travis watching that screen of 'falling circles': he waves someone out of the way to look at it.) Jacqui -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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