Well, hey, you know, maybe you'd finally managed to defeat some rather unpleasant code at your job. The code that, you know, stopped marine life from logging on. Or something. :-)
Except that a net collects fish, rather than shielding them. Now that I think of it, if "Fish" means "any subaquatic creature" then a fish's shield would be its "Shell". (taps own head)
Nope, this is a shield that protects fish (keeping in mind that the rikchik word "Fish" covers a wide variety of aquatic life).
So, briefly:
At some time in the future, the human named "long weapon" and the human named "shell" will become a family unit.
I suppose I could have used "crab-shield" but I'm not sure the rikchik-planet animal called "crab" actually has a shell, and the sound similarity between "fish-shield" and "Michelle" was too cool to resist.
Hmmm, that's interesting--I like the idea of translating the etymology rather than trying to explain to a Rikchik what a homophone is. ;-)
I wonder if "like G-d" is blasphemous for a Rikchik. Certainly the English/Hebrew name isn't so much "[I am] like G-d" as much as "who is like G-d," and is thus praise, not bragging.
The dominant religion among the rikchiks is polytheistic (heptatheistic?), so it would be more like "I'm like a God". I'm sure you could find someone who would think it was unseemly, but it would probably not be generally considered heretical. Kind of like saying "I'm like the wind".
I think I'm partly the cause of rikchik's occasional tendency to translate names as homophones, having chosen to translate my name as "Spot" and not "God of War." I don't think Rikchiks find much blasphemous in terms of names, though I'm not the authority. I doubt "like God" would do it, though I bet you're unlikely to meet one named or "I-Like-To-Eat-Chimps Cartwright."
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Actually, the first pun name was <img src="http://www.suberic.net/~dmm/cgi-bin/rikchik.cgi?size=2&style=classic&lineheight=1&Happy-N-Quality-0.Happy-N-Quality-1.Human-R-End-1" alt-"">, not yours.
Since all personal names take the "Quality" relation on their lowest word, that would translate simply as "God", or "The human named God", which might be close enough. You could also use something like "The human named Godly-Child".
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Date: 2003-11-03 11:07 am (UTC)So, briefly:
At some time in the future, the human named "long weapon" and the human named "shell" will become a family unit.
I suppose I could have used "crab-shield" but I'm not sure the rikchik-planet animal called "crab" actually has a shell, and the sound similarity between "fish-shield" and "Michelle" was too cool to resist.
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Date: 2003-11-03 11:33 am (UTC)I wonder if "like G-d" is blasphemous for a Rikchik. Certainly the English/Hebrew name isn't so much "[I am] like G-d" as much as "who is like G-d," and is thus praise, not bragging.
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Date: 2003-11-03 11:59 am (UTC)I don't think Rikchiks find much blasphemous in terms of names, though I'm not the authority. I doubt "like God" would do it, though I bet you're unlikely to meet one named
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