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 Duanne Walton |
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Posts: 1 (05/06/08 16:05:36) |
Long time visitor of the Sanctum, first time poster to the forum. Here's my most recent story, with the main character's name taken from the Quick Character Namer and the villain's names taken from the Angel/Demon Namer. Someone said using these names detracted from the story, because they were hard to pronounce. You decide. |
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Lethe Gray |
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Posts: 568 (05/06/08 18:15:54) |
Very good!
 A little hard to read in the goodledoc format, but nice!
If you added a question: "Doctor Eliot?" and an answer, "just Ehilot" with some indication of his name's pronounciation that'd solve that. It *is* a bit of an odd thing to try and say, and most folks (like me) would gloss over it without realizing, until later on when it's mentioned again. |
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Duanne Walton |
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Posts: 2 (05/09/08 12:43:13) |
I wonder if H. P. Lovecraft had these problems.
"Uh sorry, Howard. Great story, but we just can't get past this guy's name... Yog Sog-Yoggy Soggy- Soggy Yogurt, or whatever. Hey, that's it! Why don't you change his name to Soggy Yogurt?" 
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Ablean Buckslinger |
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Posts: 3125 (05/09/08 13:59:58) |
As Jack Dee says:
"If I'm just reading and I can't pronounce a word, I just ignore it. I'm reading in my head, no one has to know. Like the name of a Russian spy or something, every time it comes up I won't bother to learn it I'll just say it "ryadislafusl"." Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or side streets, kiss her or keep her, we make
choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do.
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