{"id":106,"date":"2012-03-09T05:42:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2012-03-01T14:48:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T22:48:27","slug":"exotic-names-done-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Exotic names, done cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you name characters that are outside your cultural <em>milieu<\/em>?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say you have a character, a Greek woman.\u00a0 What will you name her?\u00a0 Leaving out the usual deities, that is.<\/p>\n<p>-Try a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grecian.net\/greekphones.html\">phone directory<\/a>!\u00a0 Lots of names, unfortunately they are all in Greek.\u00a0 You could, if desperate, transliterate them to the Roman alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>-International clubs that have membership lists.\u00a0 These could be clubs you belong to, or clubs that have membership lists open to the general public.\u00a0 For example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cytology-iac.org\/home\/active-members\">International Association of Cytology<\/a>.\u00a0 They have Greek members, and the list is in Roman letters!\u00a0 I usually use the American Physical Society, of which I used to be a member, which sent out its entire membership listing as a searchable database on CD.\u00a0 You do have to weed out the expat members working in foreign countries, but you can usually find at least a few of each country to give you ideas.<\/p>\n<p>-Find a cultural club or organization connected to the area in question.\u00a0 Alas, searching on &#8220;Greek Societies&#8221; gets you a lot of fraternity houses.<\/p>\n<p>Be aware that there could be cultural implications to naming that aren&#8217;t obvious to outsiders.\u00a0 For example, a Sunni Muslim would not have the name Ali, but a Shia could.\u00a0 It has a religious affiliation connotation impossible for Muslims to ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you name characters that are outside your cultural milieu?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say you have a character, a Greek woman.\u00a0 What will you name her?\u00a0 Leaving out the usual deities, that is. -Try a phone directory!\u00a0 Lots of names, unfortunately &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/?p=106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}