Is “Littlefall” a bad name?

[kestal]

See Littlefall.

[lord-koko]

It really is. The small history behind it is cool, but littlefall sounds too much like a native american place.

[fahriel]

I don't really like it. This would be a perfect occasion to start making up a language. I think it's most common to name waterfalls after people. Maybe someone died there when it was first discovered? Glorin's Falls? Littlefall sounds too much like an insignificant failure.

[kestal]

Littlefall sounds too much like an insignificant failure.

Thank you, @fahriel.

[kestal]

I think @lord-koko and I are not sure about conlanging. It often sounds a bit stupid and I at least think it would be good to do it well, if done. So, our strategies so far were to

• Change a letter in a standard name to get something for this world (e.g. Jacob->Jahob, Jesus->Jebus, Salomon->Solomon, Arianne->Alianne). It's stupid but gets the job done.
• Do "constructed" names like for Little-Fall but I seem to be the only one to like this kind of things.

I'm not against creating a language, but it would be a big task and I'm not sure it would be worth it so far.

[lord-koko]

I agree with the High king. We could make a language, but it often sounds silly. So we should do it really good. Maybe we could, as a beginning and a half-way, start with creating root-words ? that could help us build names, and things ? And then, in the good time, develop it into a real language ?

Another problem is that, if we choose to make a language, why just one ? it seems a bit weak to not include dwarves languages, other man realms languages. Which leads to lots of work. But if someone feels good starting with it, why not.

To re-focus on the first question, we could use these so-called root-words to rename littlefall. Or just find another name ? How ? invent it or construct it (from other inventions) ? The question is interesting because it will be a guideline for naming everything.

I think that kestal once said that it could be good to make names like "the hope of marcos the great", which is both some kind of "construct" relating to the story of the citiy, and some narrativ way way of calling a city. I think it could create something interesting for different points. First, we could then rename them with a language if we later have one, second, it creates fiction in itself, and third it could create some interesting ways that the locals call them. If a city is called what I said earlier, locals could just say "hope" or anything, which leads to interesting things to explore in slang language, other ways of tlaking, leading to other ways of thinking.