#naming convention

[schizosupport]

I've seen some understandable confusion about the term "positive symptoms" and "negative symptoms", with people thinking that this is a value judgment of whether the symptoms are pleasant/good for you or if they are bad for you.

This is not at all related.

Positive/negative is a poorly named psychiatric convention for grouping types of symptoms of schizophrenia. According to psychiatric convention ALL of these symptoms are bad for you.

"Positive" doesn't indicate that it's a positive in your life, it's just a psychiatric convention to refer to symptoms that are "additions to your experience that "normal" people don't have, like hallucinations and delusions. The symptoms themselves are often inconvenient, painful and debilitating.

And likewise, negative doesn't refer to how painful negative symptoms are, but it's named that way to indicate that it's something that us schizos tend to "lack" that other people have more of, such as motivation and energy and drive.

I hope this helps clear it up!

[felixravinstills]

Re: Capitol Naming Suggestions

(for @sparklebear11)

This past post of mine might be handy.

I generally kind of tailor each name I use to the character/OC, so I would recommend looking at meanings to sort that out for yourself (I'm also happy to help if people want to share OC details with me in helping pick!), but the website Behind the Name has lists for Ancient Roman names and Late Roman names. I also find just clicking around through historical Roman figures on Wikipedia to be helpful in picking a name. There's also Greco-Roman mythology that you can sift through!

I also think that Italian Renaissance names are a great place to look (these are also just often Italianized Roman names?). For example, Clemensia is italianized Clementia, and I have an OC named Artemisia which obviously comes from Artemis.

Of course, it seems that the Capitol is fine with using names that are more distantly (?) derived from Greco-Roman names. For example, Dennis comes from Dionysus. So just looking up names with Greco-Roman origins would work too!

For surnames, this is included in the linked post above but since I will be breaking all the links to my blog I make currently at the end of October, I'll paste it here too:

The Capitol also seems to have a tendency to have either simple surnames (typically words) or fancier/surnames. Simple: Snow, Price, Creed, Moss, Click, Trinket, Crane, Fling Fancier: Heavensbee, Ravinstill There's also the average American sounding surnames: Anderson, Breen, Canville, Phipps (?)

I think coming up with a simple word could be easy. For fancier sound surnames, I suggest smushing words together and see if anything comes out sufficiently snooty sounding. Scrolling through popular American surnames could be good for the third category, but maybe avoid ones that sound more occupational like Miller or Baker? Those feel more akin to how the District naming conventions would work.

[booksdirect]

“Writer naming convention” mug.

[mudwerks]

Atlas Obscura: TUCSON, ARIZONA

Cherrybell Stravenue - A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”  

Tucson, Arizona is a city built on an orderly grid. Most of the North-South streets are named Avenues and the East-West ones are Streets. However, a quirky handful of outliers run diagonally and are called “Stravenues,” shortened on signage simply as Strav. or Stra.  

Cherrybell Stravenue was the first of the lot. It’s a short half-mile stretch of asphalt that cuts across a square lot to connect with the Tucson central post office. Cherrybell dates to 1949, according to a reporter at the Tucson Daily Citizen who felt the momentousness of the newly named road warranted an entry into the historical record.

[nightmaze]

Personal headcanon : Clan names

Here is my personal headcanon regarding names and how they are commonly used within Ilwe’ran’s Clan.

Traditional name / Tribal name : Traditionally, males are given the name of their mother with a suffix added to designate the order in which they were born. This name is never used within the Clan but at time can be used by males as a way to present themselves in front of another Clan living in the same area.. Some sort of ID card so people know instantly from which Clan the male is coming and his place in the lineage. The purpose of this name is to avoid breeding between members of the same lineage. As you might already know, Clans are sedentary while males are nomad, to me males are kind of bards from medieval time : They are the one carrying the news from one Clan to another and help communication between families as well as having a role regarding trades. In exchange of those services, a male is given the right to stay a certain amount of time within a Clan and being taken care of. Of course, breeding is bound to happen during that period and while a Clan might be welcoming a male for the first time, the name given by this one already carry a lot of important information helping to keep the Clan strong by avoiding unhealthy breeding.

Given name / Birth name : Babies are given a birth name by their mother which is the one used commonly within the Clan and in front of strangers. This name is traditionally given by the mother, but it can happen that the father helps too depending on his bond with the mother and the Clan in general. A male not aiming to stay within a Clan or speaking to non Keepers will tend to share this name rather than their traditional one, as they often relate more to this one since it’s been chosen for them. Within Ilwe’ran’s Clan, the given name is most of time chosen for its meaning and is considered as a lucky charm for the child’s future.

Sacred name / True name : Once reaching adulthood, males and females are given another name during a ceremony which often happens at the same time as the Hunting Ceremony. This name is sacred and supposed to represent them as a person, thus it is only used by very closed family and friends as well as during important celebrations. Using this name when not allowed to is considered as extremely rude and repeated offense is a proof of disrespect.

As for Ilwe’ran : His traditional name is Antë’ra. Antë - his mother’s name - means giver, generous and good hearted, ‘ra is the 5th son suffix. His birth name is Ilwe’ran, which means rainbow. He uses only this name, regardless who he is speaking to, even among other Keepers. His sacred name is Ara, which means light of dawn and noble. Only Carina is calling him that way, before her only his mother did.

[firstbreathmf]

can i think something expressed as a difficult concept and try to express my reasoning for making a mistake from my perspective? yea i mean u do do exactly the things ur complaining abt the cops doing, albeit on a smaller scale. NO, this isnt just "an internet thing." for the last time honey, i will NOT let u out of the well even if ur lil guy needs attn and u need to moisturize because i am going to skin u. fuck i heard there is money in the for-profit accountability machine too

[359midnightburgers]

Do you call any of your friends by their last name consistently?

Yes

No

Only because there is multiple people with the same first name in our friend gro

Voting ended onJun 16, 2024

Okay I am just wondering how common this is, as I see this a lot in friend groups in American/British media but I have never come across this is my own groups.

[talkingnumbers]

Do Me a Solid

Evidently I never posted this?