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[Rebel Wolf]

Live and let live isn't a big thing on here,I guess.

[werewoof]

you do realize you can use a name or even a word from a language without actually knowing the language, yeah? people do that all the time. and i think a lot of people are taking their cues from Maraas and his word-name thing. even if our inquisitor has never been of the qun, there's no harm in them having a qunlat name. what do you want me to name my qunari mage? timothy? robert?

Modifié par tiktac, 24 décembre 2013 - 10:44 .

[Battlebloodmage]

tiktac wrote...

you do realize you can use a name or even a word from a language without actually knowing the language, yeah? people do that all the time. and i think a lot of people are taking their cues from Maraas and his word-name thing. even if our inquisitor has never been of the qun, there's no harm in them having a qunlat name. what do you want me to name my qunari mage? timothy? robert?

Mine is gonna be Shaniqua. 

[Rebel Wolf]

Not Bob?
I was thinking of calling mine Rebel.
He's going to be a very diffrent type of person that you would expect for one of his species.

Modifié par Rebel Wolf, 24 décembre 2013 - 10:50 .

[Battlebloodmage]

Rebel Wolf wrote...

Not Bob?
I was thinking of calling mine Rebel.
He's going to be a very diffrent type of person that you would expect for one of his species.

He's gay?

[Silfren]

Rebel Wolf wrote...

So I started a naming thread and a lot of people are using the qunari langauge for names.
How would a kossith raised outside the qun even know that langauge.

That seems like an odd question.  Is it really that hard to understand that the language of qunlat isn't restricted to only those who practice the Qun?  You don't have to be Jewish to know Hebrew; you don't have to be Catholic to know Latin, and you don't have to be Muslim to know Arabic.

[Maria Caliban]

Rebel Wolf wrote...

So I started a naming thread and a lot of people are using the qunari langauge for names.
How would a kossith raised outside the qun even know that langauge.

You don't need to know French to have a French name.

[Rebel Wolf]

Battlebloodmage wrote...

Rebel Wolf wrote...

Not Bob?
I was thinking of calling mine Rebel.
He's going to be a very diffrent type of person that you would expect for one of his species.

He's gay?

He's bisexual,wild and has a wicked non stoic sense of humor.

Modifié par Rebel Wolf, 24 décembre 2013 - 11:03 .

[MDCT506]

Battlebloodmage wrote...
Haters gonna hate. Qunari gonna Qunari

Many people who fled their countries due to political struggle still keep their traditions and cultures, so it's expected for those Qunari to pass on their cultures and languages to their children. They may not like how their government has become, but their culture is still theirs. 

My grantparents on my mother's side are off the boat immigrants from a fishing village in China.  You know what they named their four children who were born in america?  Sally, James, Thomas, and Larry.  Adherence to the original culture or acceptance of the new local culture is a bigger factor than point of origin of the previous generation. 

[Rebel Wolf]

I guess it would depend how long his family had been away from the qun.

[Nightdragon8]

Rebel Wolf wrote...

So a kossith that had never been around actual people of the Qun knows their langauge because they share a race?
I should be able to speak german and gaelic then.

lol I woudl be in a great spot if I knew every langue my heritge came from, Cheyenne, German, French, gaelic, english.

[Battlebloodmage]

MDCT506 wrote...

Battlebloodmage wrote...
Haters gonna hate. Qunari gonna Qunari

Many people who fled their countries due to political struggle still keep their traditions and cultures, so it's expected for those Qunari to pass on their cultures and languages to their children. They may not like how their government has become, but their culture is still theirs. 

My grantparents on my mother's side are off the boat immigrants from a fishing village in China.  You know what they named their four children who were born in america?  Sally, James, Thomas, and Larry.  Adherence to the original culture or acceptance of the new local culture is a bigger factor than point of origin of the previous generation. 

That's why I didn't say everyone. Many people did and many people didn't, but it's too narrow-minded to assume that everyone would be willingly and gleefully assimilate into the new culture they're in, especially if the locals are prejudice against them.

[Mummy22kids]

I'm going to name all my Inquisitors Jo.

[Rebel Wolf]

Freedom would be a good name for an Inquisitor Saarebas.

[werewoof]

Silfren wrote...

Rebel Wolf wrote...

So I started a naming thread and a lot of people are using the qunari langauge for names.
How would a kossith raised outside the qun even know that langauge.

That seems like an odd question.  Is it really that hard to understand that the language of qunlat isn't restricted to only those who practice the Qun?  You don't have to be Jewish to know Hebrew; you don't have to be Catholic to know Latin, and you don't have to be Muslim to know Arabic.

hell my name is technically hebrew in origin and my family is almost entirely german. you can use a name without literally speaking the language it originates from and you can know a language without practicing the most popular religion that speaks it. 

[Rebel Wolf]

But considering how qunari culture is not many outsiders but scholars or tal vashoth would know the language.
It's not like they teach it to outsiders.

[Cainhurst Crow]

Yes because everyone would just love to see the adventures of Jacob Smithson, the horned giant grey humanoid.

It's more the fun to have a cool sounding name then one thats bland and fits. That's why I named my warden Terminator Cousland, because its just so much more fun then trying to pick something like robert or john.

[MDCT506]

Battlebloodmage wrote...

MDCT506 wrote...

Battlebloodmage wrote...
Haters gonna hate. Qunari gonna Qunari

Many people who fled their countries due to political struggle still keep their traditions and cultures, so it's expected for those Qunari to pass on their cultures and languages to their children. They may not like how their government has become, but their culture is still theirs. 

My grantparents on my mother's side are off the boat immigrants from a fishing village in China.  You know what they named their four children who were born in america?  Sally, James, Thomas, and Larry.  Adherence to the original culture or acceptance of the new local culture is a bigger factor than point of origin of the previous generation. 

That's why I didn't say everyone. Many people did and many people didn't, but it's too narrow-minded to assume that everyone would be willingly and gleefully assimilate into the new culture they're in, especially if the locals are prejudice against them.

With respect, I didn't say that they should assimilate into the new culture, or to what degree, but saying that it is "expected" to carry on naming conventions is also narrow-minded.  My family still happily practices many traditional chinese cultural elements, but that doesn't mean we have to name our children accordingly. 

[Rebel Wolf]

Darth.They already have a last name.
You could use names like Hakon Or Wulfgar.

Modifié par Rebel Wolf, 24 décembre 2013 - 11:19 .

[werewoof]

Darth Brotarian wrote...

Yes because everyone would just love to see the adventures of Jacob Smithson, the horned giant grey humanoid. 

It's more the fun to have a cool sounding name then one thats bland and fits. That's why I named my warden Terminator Cousland, because its just so much more fun then trying to pick something like robert or john.

Chance Cousland was what i named one of mine. i just like giving my characters fun names. what's the matter with some creative freedom?

i named one of my male hawkes "Jewel" because it was a fun name and it makes it sort of make more sense as to why he goes by his last name.

Modifié par tiktac, 24 décembre 2013 - 11:21 .

[wowness8787]

I swear people argue about the race name in every thread about qunari (kossith)

[Battlebloodmage]

MDCT506 wrote...

Battlebloodmage wrote...

MDCT506 wrote...

Battlebloodmage wrote...
Haters gonna hate. Qunari gonna Qunari

Many people who fled their countries due to political struggle still keep their traditions and cultures, so it's expected for those Qunari to pass on their cultures and languages to their children. They may not like how their government has become, but their culture is still theirs. 

My grantparents on my mother's side are off the boat immigrants from a fishing village in China.  You know what they named their four children who were born in america?  Sally, James, Thomas, and Larry.  Adherence to the original culture or acceptance of the new local culture is a bigger factor than point of origin of the previous generation. 

That's why I didn't say everyone. Many people did and many people didn't, but it's too narrow-minded to assume that everyone would be willingly and gleefully assimilate into the new culture they're in, especially if the locals are prejudice against them.

With respect, I didn't say that they should assimilate into the new culture, or to what degree, but saying that it is "expected" to carry on naming conventions is also narrow-minded.  My family still happily practices many traditional chinese cultural elements, but that doesn't mean we have to name our children accordingly. 

I never say that they should name their children based on their mothertongue language or their adopted language for that matter since it's more about personal decision. My post was simply to point out that many families still keep their cultures and even passing those cultures to their children, so it's not unexpected for the offspring (In this case, the Qunari inquisitor) to still know the language or even the culture in which they come from. Whether they have the Qunari name or a different name is simply based on how you roleplay your game.

[Thomas Andresen]

Silfren wrote...

Rebel Wolf wrote...

So I started a naming thread and a lot of people are using the qunari langauge for names.
How would a kossith raised outside the qun even know that langauge.

That seems like an odd question.  Is it really that hard to understand that the language of qunlat isn't restricted to only those who practice the Qun?  You don't have to be Jewish to know Hebrew; you don't have to be Catholic to know Latin, and you don't have to be Muslim to know Arabic.

To add to your argument, there are more than plenty examples of names having an origin in a certain language, and means something in that language, and is used by people who have barely heard of the language.

Just because a player wants to name their Qunari character something because of what the word means, it doesn't have to mean that the character will know the meaning of it.

[MDCT506]

Rebel Wolf wrote...

Darth.They already have a last name.
You could use names like Hakon Or Wulfgar.

I wonder how that would work as far as qunlat is concerned.  I was under the impression that Qunari didn't have family units or identifiers beyond the name of their role in society, so I figured surnames were simply unnecessary and as far as I know unused.