Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

Why do all the conspiracy nuts talk about "the world being secretly run by lizard people" as a potential bad thing?

All the lizard people I've met 'round these parts have been lovely

now imagine: baseball, but everything is made out of water

i can't get eaten by a grue today, i'm too busy emitting enormous amounts of light

seize the means of subduction

@lizardsquid "Lizardsquid - *hugs* & *cuddles* (nightcore remix) HD Audio"

@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.