How Do You Name Stuff?

[Evastio]

So how do you name stuff? Do you name stuff after friends, come up with completely unique names, give it a name based on what it is, (like "Lappy" for a laptop or "Compy" for a computer) get someone else to name it for you, etc? It can be anything from pets, online accounts, or stuffed animals.

I usually invent names for everything I name (kind of like my name Evastio). I don't really like naming things after myself or other people (because my real name is awkward and other people might be offended being named after something).

[Yar]

I don't know that I name stuff, per se, but when I'm joking around I may give something a stupid name.

Although, I do call my toolbag at work my purse, and refer to everyone else's bags as purses.

[Tavrobel]

For nicknames of people, I take either a completely random name, or I take one of that person's attributes, and let connections connect. I've once gotten from Sweet Wag to Gingersnap. For not-so-living things, I either shorten it or put it in letters.

[theundeadhero]

If I want what it is to represent me I give it a nick-name of mine. Sometimes I name things like video game characters with friends names and other times I use names I like.

[Vermachtnis]

I add -ie to the end of stuff. Like Doggie, Greenie, Shortie (she loves that nickname by the way. Gave me my own nickname of Dumbass xD). Sometimes I actually think nicknames out though. Like this one chick I know. I call her Amazon. That went over better than Shortie and she actually embraced it.

[rubah]

Ideally, things will find their own names. My dog mussie was kinda nameless for a while until Mussinus alit upon his being like a leaf dropping into your hand in autumn.

I name computer hardware after life and death.

[Bunny]

I add prestigious titles to everything I own. For instance, my portable hard drives are named Dr. Hard Drive (100 gig) and Lord Hard Drive (250 gig). They are brothers, you know.

[Rantz]

I call my computer "computer". If I had a dog I would call it the "dog". If I had a cat I would call it "cat". If I had two or more pets of the same type I would pick their most prominent characteristic and prepend it to the previously mentioned base (e.g. "big dog", "jumpy cat", "ty parrot that cannot even talk").

[Momiji]

I named my laptop 'Yotsuba'.

When naming things, I often make portmaneaus or compound words based on relative subjects to the subject at hand.

[Zeldy]

I can't say I think about it. I changed all my mate's names so that they'd have 'ie' at the end, like Rachy, Marky, Hanny, Ellie, they're easier to say! and it's cute.

Items though, no, I'm not that stupid to call my computer "compy", it's just "computer".

[Meow]

yotsuba is a restaurant in michigan

[Moon Rabbits]

I call things whatever I think of.

[Momiji]

yotsuba is a restaurant in michigan

Yotsuba.

Note: Yotsuba can translate to 'four-leaves', which is reflected in her green four-pigtail hairstyle.

[Denmark]

I guess that's why they call that forum "random" xD

In video games I have a sequence of names I go through. Rob, Spim, Zeke, then I don't usually play more than three times.

My computer is named Spim after the best playthrough of Ocarina of Time ever, which was also a very random name.

Mostly random.

[Psychotic]

I named my dog in Fable II Jerome.