Coming up with names is fun, sure, but placing everything so that it's legible and clear yet "cool" looking is a pain and takes forever. Looks good to me SG. I guess what I was thinking of as a desert is more like a badlands kind of place so I get it now.
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Yeah I couldn't quite get the desert look that I wanted, so I changed direction a bit, and I think it worked out better in the end.Originally Posted by Ascension
Thanks, it's not so much that I dislike coming up with the names as I dislike how much time it takes to place them on the map.
As I noted in a earlier post, I used Tagalog (Filipino) as a base for the names. I'm sure my wife would look at it and laugh.
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There's a lot of doubled vowels. Out of curiosity, what does that mean for pronounciation?
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I never really gave it that much thought. It's really more a way to separate it from the spelling conventions we are used to.
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So, it's really more for visual appeal?
I usually try to consider how a word is supposed to be pronounced in my head, though I probably often fail to make it clear. I've been trying harder, recently, to use consistent spelling conventions - or at least consistent within individual linguistic contexts.
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For the most part.
I do somewhat sound it out in my head when I'm 'mashing' things together. But I don't make notes as to what the pronunciation would be.
I took a minute or two and grabbed a couple of names of the map, here's how I see the pronunciation:
- Tuurgaar = Toor-gahr
- Umaag = Oo-mog
- Ghuuro = G-oo-row
Like many languages, pronunciations would vary slightly by region.
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You sure have gone right way with the shape of the continent and with overall look. I sometimes share your opinion about the labeling. It can sometimes be troublesome, but then again sometimes real fun...
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