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Rich Madam Aug 19, 2018

Always had an interest in sci-fi, I mean speculative fiction... actually do I mean sci-fi, pulp space fantasy.

Would like to write more shorts dealing with aliens etc... except it's hard to come up with alien names. They always sound naff, but I can't call a guy with tentacles for a face "Gary" can I?

I guess I could if his real name would be unpronounceable with human vocal chords and they anglicise their names to make themselves more appealing to human society, but that seems like a cop-out.

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Ale

@richmadam I personally think naming conventions now in human society tend to follow integration. I assume the same would hold true of multiple self-aware species. Is the alien on earth or in some other capacity trying to integrate with humans? Then they will adopt our naming conventions, unless prevented by physiology. Are humans on the alien planet or trying to integrate with the alien species? Then our naming conventions will change.