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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferrix" data-source="post: 1465735" data-attributes="member: 6115">I end up doing that with characters every once in a while if no names come to me for the character, usually I try words that relate to the character in some way.  Although I'll sometimes clip or modify words.I do like languages; being a philosophy major you run into a bunch of them, german, ancient greek and french are often interspersed within a work that is in english or translated as the terms don't always translate well into single words.  That and I love to seek out the etymology of words, so I end up with bits and pieces, like juggernaut being descended from jagannath, a title of Krisha, also sanskrit jagannatha for lord of the world, and so on.Most of the people I play in person have very little language training so they rarely ever notice its anything but another name.  Still trying to get my french into speakable terms, and my german to a point where I don't have to consult my notes or a friend for more information everytime i hear a term.  Don't think my ancient greek will ever get too far.  If I had had the chance when I was younger, I'd have gone for as many languages as I could but in the states they only offered french, spanish or latin once you got to high school.  By then I loathed busy work, took the two years of requisite french (which I regret not taking more now) and cut out from languages.All in all, I'll use tidbits of other languages (german, greek, french, spanish, latin, tibetan, japanese), although I feel sort of bad when people who actually speak any one of those languages watches me bastardize it horribly.</blockquote>

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