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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5685224" data-attributes="member: 2205">Of course they're personal axe-grinding.  I did the same thing years ago on a review of the first edition, when I pointed out that Hurrian names and Elamite names were actually two very different things and you couldn't just mix them willy-nilly.  Nobody cared but me, so I had an ax to grind.Plus, all the complaints seem to especially focus on the meanings of the name, which is not really the book's purpose.  It's supposed to be a list of names by culture so you can pick names for your characters--so I don't really understand why they're making that complaint.  It's like complaining that an economics textbook doesn't talk about biology.  Hence: ax to grind.Of course, I'm not enough of an expert to tell if the names themselves are wrong as the Swedish guy asserts (although his big gripe seems to be that the diacritics are missing, which to complain about that in a book for an American audience; again, seems like personal ax to grind.  Or that the names may sound old-fashioned--which depending on what you want (especially if you're thinking of using it for D&D characters) is probably more of a feature than a bug.  The lists that I did look at, though, where I did have enough familiarity with the language to comment, like Spanish, I'd say that yeah, there were a number of old fashioned names in there.  The Anglo-Saxon and Norse I didn't see any problems, but by default they were old-fashioned.The lack of many surnames is a bit of an issue.  The other book, which I can't find at all anymore that she wrote before, was MUCH better in that regard.  But good luck finding it.THIS book, on the other hand, you can buy on Amazon easily for less than a buck, and for that price, it's a good resource.</blockquote>

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