by 心裡學 » Sun Jun 11, 2017 7:10 am
Bringing the conversation I'm seeing in the main thread to here.
I hear a lot on what prefixes and suffixes are valid to use, and honestly I don't understand. I get suffixes, but do we really need to restrict what prefixes we need to use? I haven't seen the list of "valid" ones, but I feel like that they're probably a list of prefixes that has already been used (ex. Fire, Fox, Mouse) in canon. We can make prefixes of our own if we really wanted to. Why should we bar ones like "Fruit" or "Clove" (yes, I know that this was a typo, but the "it's not a valid prefix" argument doesn't make sense to me. A clove is a flower bud of a tree-- considering that many canon prefixes are nature-themed, I see no problem in people taking this name).
If we are restricted to canon prefixes, then we're going to have rename many of them-- Potoo, Schist... Heck, my own cat Tideflower doesn't have a prefix that has ever been used in canon; is "Tide" therefore not valid?
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