tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post5462701198815485138..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Greater verbal creativity during rising-crime times: Compound namesagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-68368809273002835142011-03-23T23:43:11.126-04:002011-03-23T23:43:11.126-04:00Almost all Chinese names have meanings because the...Almost all Chinese names have meanings because they are based on characters (Japanese as well), many Japanese and Chinese have the names that include (Ryo/Long) meaning Dragon...using as part of a compound phrase. My ex-wife had the name "Real Disciplined" if you translate it. LOL So I don't think IndoEuropeans are the only people to make such names, they are common in Japanese and Chinese, especially for boys and mythological characters.<br /><br />The thing is we don't usually translate names directly, if we did, you might end up with someone named..."Dragon Iron Middle Mountain" (not an usual Japanese name) or "Best the Generation King" (in Mandarin Chinese that would be "Wang Shijie"...<br /><br />That being said, I do agree that IndoEuropeans made the best myths, well, no I would say that Semites are first (isn't the bible a myth that has not been debonked lol)...then IndoEuropeans. But the naming thing, I think that is a stretch. I'm sure any language that uses massive amounts of compounds...(Sino-Tibetans, Altaics) use a hell of a lot of compounds. Hell Chinese call a computer "diaonao" (electric-brain). LOLUncleTomRuckusInGoodWhiteWorldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07508650487951730570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-52568106559928034172011-03-09T14:57:45.579-05:002011-03-09T14:57:45.579-05:00I'm not saying you don't have a point, but...I'm not saying you don't have a point, but some of the reason you might find less name creativity is that many of today's most popular cartoons are imports from Japan.<br /><br />Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Naruto, Bleach, Power Rangers, Zatch Bell, and One Piece are examples. If you look at the names within these series considering their foreign origin, you'll still find some of them creative.<br /><br />Transformers took pre-existing Japanese toy products and renamed or gave names where none had existed before.<br /><br />You can still find compound names galore in most of today's fantasy games.pzedhttp://undeadastronauts.comnoreply@blogger.com