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I named my computer Bunnycat cus it's small and cute, like a bunny or a cat. (I usually just end up calling it a stupid piece of crap though) And I call my lover Blainjamin cus his name is just Blaine but it sounds like it's short for something. I'm not that creative though. I'm better at coming up with names for GFs on FF8.
Everyone called me crazy but i knew i wasnt the only one!!!
My guitar is called stringy, my violin is called squeeky, my keyboard is called buttons, my slinky is called slinkers.
usually it just comes out of random or by combining 2 words that mean something that has to do with what im naming. or sometimes rearranging the letters in named things and naming something of mine with the scrambled name.
Names just seem to come to me. My computer is called Terabithia, my username smittenkitten just came to me as well. I didn't really think about it at all it just came to me sort of. Just random in a way. ^__^
Usually literary or other sorts of allusions. For instance, my harddrives are named thusly:
Penitent Tangent
Ascendant Justice
Guilty Spark
Keyes
Johnson
Silent Cartographer
For a video I made for a collaborative channel on YouTube I named a few inanimate objects. I used the technique I use naming my pokemon to name these objects. It usually involves a long-winded derivation but still relating to the object. For instance:
I named my stereo Belle, because my stereo produces sound, sound is measured in Decibels, shortened it to Bel, Belle :D
I named my Bed Christian, because it is the place of Rapid Eye Movement REM, REM is also a band, my favourite song by them is Losing My Religion, and my religion is Christianity.
Also I named my watch Lucky because in the past I've had the worst luck with watches, but my current one has lasted me ages! :D
Usually I leave inanimate objects with their stock names. The rare exemption to this is Highway 18, my media storage drive. Originally I named a bunch of my partitions with names from Half-Life 2, like Nova Prospekt, Black Mesa East and Highway 17. But then I lost everything when my mbr got f'ed so Highway 17 was reborn as Highway 18, and it's really the only one that's stuck.
I name stuff with words that sound awesome.
I've a tendency to abbrieviate things, so computer becomes "com" ect ect. I also have a weird throwback to childhood which I have NEVER grown out of mainly because 99% of people who hear it laugh call it cute then adopt it which is I call any and all washing up liquids "Fairy-up liquid" it's really just as a kid I skipped saying "fairy washing up liquid" and adopted the fairy-up which everyone loves me for. Oh and speaking of friends nicknames, I call a friend Jailbait even though she's not actually Jailbait because walking down a street with her looks so dodgy
I name all of my instruments. My harp is called Ceridigwyn, or Ceri. My piano is called Guinivere and my oboe is called Alistair.
I started with Welsh names, but I'm in a family of 11 so I ran out quite quickly - they were all taken!
I called mine Toto.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
I just name things based kinda on what they do, with what sounds good. Well, except for my laptop, I guess. I named that based on anime (Motoko) :p
My favorite is the name I gave the toaster: Poppy :p
My iPod was named by a friend Poddy. I don't name any other inanimate objects. I normally name video game characters after myself, my nickname, my screen name or after friends. Or names I like.
I just name things whatever I want to, no real system :D
For Final Fantasy, I like to give namesakes to the characters, from previous titles of course. As for other things, I like to create elaborate names that may never have been thought of before or portmanteaus.
In a game I'll ussually stay pretty zealous to the true name if already pre-named.