Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170424154014/@comment-27144409-20170426123658

SpiritedDreaming wrote: CNR Explanation: Midori means Green in Japanese. Maanlig is South African for Moonlight. Pick a general area for the name and stick with it. If the first name is Asian, don’t go mixing it with a South African last name, that just makes it sound awkward. Even if you don’t go with Japanese for the last name, at least make it Asiatic in origin.

The canon characters don’t mix nationalities like this; even in the case of Ruby and Yang, where mixing would make sense since Summer has an English name and Taiyang has a Chinese name they instead have the girls use last names that suit their first names. It’s not Ruby Xiao Long or Yang Rose.

Her mother’s last name is Japanese, why didn’t you use it? It’d still have alliteration, but Midori Murasaki flows off the tongue a lot better than Midori Maanlig.

Whistles. I try to, but sometimes mixing languages sounds more phonetically pleasing. Not that anyone has ever complained about this with my characters.

Also, WTF is a water-cooled shirt Salamander? That makes no sense. Water cooling is used for equipment, such as (old) machine guns, heavy machinery, and high-end computers, that generate substantial heat at a rapid pace.