Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@lizardsquid The best one I ever came up with was for a particularly group>individual-minded dwarven society.

They referred to people by the largest group they represented, only getting more specific if there was a need to differentiate between individuals. So a typical name structure would be Species Nation City District Clan Given. If someone was the only human in the room, they'd just be called "Human."

And then you introduce membership in organisations, and things get really complicated.

@lizardsquid I know for a fact that many Indigenous Australian communities use [given name] [skin group], Inuit traditionally go by any number of (usually mononymous) names depending on context, Arabic and Ancient Roman names are a whole subject of their own.

In my own universe, in Standard Isarthakan the default order is [given name] [family name] unless the given name has a case ending appended to it (in which case it goes last), often including clan names/alt. last names where applicable.

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@lizardsquid if you count it as different from English-style, the Spanish convention of inheriting a family name from both father and mother

Dotsies is a font that compresses the Latin alphabet down to dots that can be read quickly (and learned quickly too, apparently). There are a few lessons on the homepage to get started

http://dotsies.org/

There's a touch of #cyberpunk here in that I wonder if this is the beginning of transforming text to human readable barcodes

@lizardsquid so in my fantasy world humans are the only species that can function as like "boom fireball wizard"

this is only because of careful breeding over centuries, so you have your name as follows {Fathers House} {Mothers House} {Given Name} {Title or Nickname, Usually what your friends call you over your given name} {Power}

The power being referred to is your bloodlines channeling ability, which is rated """""Scientifically"""""" by a special part of their society

@lizardsquid OH! and the Hawaiian naming convention is AWESOME. :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_name