Name This Pet!
A new poll is up! After collecting together our (27 pages of) user suggested names and picking the 10 we liked the most, we now ask our users again to please vote on which of these names is your favorite.
We've included the pronunciations to help you make up your minds, it was hard enough narrowing our choices down to 10 so good luck! We'll be closing the poll on Sunday June 12th at 11:59PM so make sure to get your votes in on time!
Posted by SubetaTeam
I went with Qengshin Ye, because it is the most fun to pronounce. Where is the board with all the user suggestions? Not seeing it in S&I, Pet Suggestions, Brainstorming, or Site Feedback, which seem the obvious places to solicit ideas. But also not seeing it in General Discussion or Subeta Pets either.
But it also seems that I'm legit the only person here who didn't even know there was a request out for new pet ideas until this news post was made. :'D
But it also seems that I'm legit the only person here who didn't even know there was a request out for new pet ideas until this news post was made. :'D
Honestly, the difficulty in spelling some of these names is more of a "turn off" than any difficulty in /saying/ them. Honestly, I KNOW I mispronounce some subeta pet names... and I kinda don't care since I never say them out loud anyway? But I have to spell them a lot, between writing stories or even just searching for things. I get that these are to be asian inspired, but some of these seem unnecessarily complicated.
And, like others, they do all kind of blur together... wider variety might have been nice. But their similarities show what the staff kind of would prefer the name to be anyway, which I can understand.
That said, I am not a fan of the front-runner right now. Personally chose Yunmei, since it had a good ring to it while still being simple and easy to spell. Plus the meanings were nice too.
And, like others, they do all kind of blur together... wider variety might have been nice. But their similarities show what the staff kind of would prefer the name to be anyway, which I can understand.
That said, I am not a fan of the front-runner right now. Personally chose Yunmei, since it had a good ring to it while still being simple and easy to spell. Plus the meanings were nice too.
I do not like sounding rude or anything, but I personally didn't like any of the choices available :c
I highly enjoy the flow of Ulonaari. My second choice was Zentu, but it really is too short for my liking and does not feel like a Subetan species name in my heart.
I picked the one I could say without looking at its pronunciation first and that wasn't the first name of the kid from Brave Police J-Decker.
Aww, would have loved to see the suggested name Qapira in the list. It sounds more like a species name compared to the selected ten to choose from.
Well, I will say, though, that if this is mainly based on East Asian languages that Korean is sorely missing - both from the suggestions and this narrowed poll. Oh well. I just wish Korean had gotten the footing it deserves. It is such a beautiful language that would have represented the melding of East Asian nations beautifully in part to its written ties to China and its linguistic similarities with Japan. It would have made a perfect middle ground in my opinion. :)
Why are people assuming Zentu is winning because it's the "easiest to pronounce"? I looked through all the names and I liked it the best, I thought it was a unique name that made me think of what the pet would be like. I don't speak any kind of Chinese but I do speak Japanese, and the Japanese word for elephant is "zou", so that might've subconsciously influence me :)
tldr I like the sound of it not just that it's "easy to pronounce" chill out
tldr I like the sound of it not just that it's "easy to pronounce" chill out
I like Qiseng and Yunmei the most. I think some of them (like Qengshin Ye and Qixiang) are a bit too complicated to spell out, though.
picked ulonaari because not only is it enjoyable to pronounce, but unlike the others it has no direct translation - User not found: someone_here basically wrote my exact thoughts tbh.
nonetheless, i do look forward to seeing the new pet!
nonetheless, i do look forward to seeing the new pet!
I am excited to see how this turns out. Despite a lack of linguistic variety, I will be happy either way. I find all Asian languages to be exquisitely beautiful in their own ways. :)
This was honestly such a hard decision. Finally went with Qiseng in the end, though, after looking through the meanings.
I'm a little disappointed with the one that's winning, I just find it boring compared to the others. But to each their own.
Qixiang and Yunmei were my other picks so at least they're up there cx
I'm a little disappointed with the one that's winning, I just find it boring compared to the others. But to each their own.
Qixiang and Yunmei were my other picks so at least they're up there cx
I realize that the items/pets from this region are orient inspired, no problem with that. But was just hoping for a wider variety of name choices. They all sound pretty much the same.
This is an honor, staff.
This is my original post for Ulonaari, in case anyone's curious (and doesn't want to dive into all the pages):
"Wanted the word to sort of look and sound like it was inherited from a dialect born in a far-removed, mystical place. I somehow ended up with this. I began by restructuring the word oolong for a starting point. Beyond that the word is based on nothing, and therefore relies on no lore separate from whatever Subeta has in store for it."
This is my original post for Ulonaari, in case anyone's curious (and doesn't want to dive into all the pages):
"Wanted the word to sort of look and sound like it was inherited from a dialect born in a far-removed, mystical place. I somehow ended up with this. I began by restructuring the word oolong for a starting point. Beyond that the word is based on nothing, and therefore relies on no lore separate from whatever Subeta has in store for it."
Little sad that these are more 'directly Asian' than a lot of the names in the thread. Several people took phones, phonemes or even morphemes and combined and tweaked them to avoid that, especially since staff seemed to support/encourage that...
Also a little sad that there isn't really a non-Asian choice. Again, many people were careful to include both.
I mostly just feel if staff was this decided on what they wanted it should have been more upfront, but I suppose they might've just come to that conclusion while judging/been overwhelmed by the volume of suggestions that were that way.
Still though, especially posts like "Really, we are going to try to avoid using whole words that already mean something in another language when naming this pet."
Especially since as many pointed out, romanizations of a character-based or phonologically variable languages are slightly nebulous territory. /shrug.
Also a little sad that there isn't really a non-Asian choice. Again, many people were careful to include both.
I mostly just feel if staff was this decided on what they wanted it should have been more upfront, but I suppose they might've just come to that conclusion while judging/been overwhelmed by the volume of suggestions that were that way.
Still though, especially posts like "Really, we are going to try to avoid using whole words that already mean something in another language when naming this pet."
Especially since as many pointed out, romanizations of a character-based or phonologically variable languages are slightly nebulous territory. /shrug.
you have to be careful when combining chinese characters though, meng and hua separately mean dream and flower/painting but the word menghua means sleep talking lol. qixiang is weather forecast and yunmei can also be cloud + beautiful ^^ also, the pronunciation is a bit off, and going by the pinyin transcription system 'qeng' and 'shin' aren't valid letter combinations. plus words like 'qi' and 'chi' or 'xi' and 'shi' are all pronounced differently with different tongue placements ^^ although i guess it all doesn't really matter for a pet name hahaha, sorry i had my chinese exam last week and i got a little bit too into it lol
It almost bothers me that so many of these names -do- have a direct meaning. To me, Shengui Guo should be Asian-INSPIRED but does its own thing, so to me, it doesn't make that much sense that they would speak Chinese or Japanese instead of just having their own language. Although I recognize that it could potentially be more awkward to just throw together random sounds.
Anyway, I just picked Ulonaari, which sounded cool. And then I found that it's a twist on oolong and liked the creativity behind that even more than relying on a direct translation (my personal opinion).
Anyway, I just picked Ulonaari, which sounded cool. And then I found that it's a twist on oolong and liked the creativity behind that even more than relying on a direct translation (my personal opinion).
so basically zentu is winning because everyone is picking the easiest to pronounce name? lmao that really sucks.... qiseng is my favourite. it looks pretty and like a good subeta pet name.
Wooow, it's more evenly split than I would have thought. I wish some of the non-Chinese names had made it through...trying to name something in a language you don't speak sometimes ends up embarrassing :x These are pretty though! I'm excited to see the final product, name and all~
@osterizer: well, I forgot to check name meanings... that would have greatly helped the decision I made. I did also see a lot of spelling variations and split spellings as well, I remember that Chinese CAN tend to change in form and spelling depending on the region you go to (it's NOT a small world).
searches names for any relative significance Well, I am greatly disappointed. None of these names have any real significance to the characteristics of this pet other than their language(s). Only two of them were anything corporations or reguregular'random people, and only one actually seemed to match something about the creature itself. Those two that I think would actually be possible were Yuuta and Yurumi. Yurumi seems to be a... giant ant-eater, and Yuuta is a character from an anime. I chose Yuuta, based off the character's description.
@Dice: Thanks for your efforts -- one complication with some of these attempts at names is that Chinese is tonal, and sometimes two syllables paired together don't mean the same thing as the words. For example, "meng" and "hua" do, separately mean "dream" and "flower", but together "menghua" means "talking in one's sleep" (source: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=menghua ). One of the other names also has an unfortunate meaning that I'm sure the proposer never intended.
I remember the users who picked these names showed their meaning.
I'm going to pick the name that I find most fun to pronounce, hehe
I'm going to pick the name that I find most fun to pronounce, hehe
I voted for Yunmei,I think it looks and sounds pretty plus we don't have a pet that starts with a Y.
Could we get a list of the meanings for the names?
Could we get a list of the meanings for the names?
All these names are lovely yet I had to go with Menghua since the pet I believe is based on a Baku. Also it was hinted that this pet would have an association to tea.
really liked Qixiang, Ulonaari, and Menghua, voted Qixiang in the end - it just sounds super pretty!
Considering it's currently dead last, I'm glad that people are feeling that Qengshin Ye is out of place compared to the other nine suggestions, and compared to every other pet name.
That shouldn't have made the cut.
That shouldn't have made the cut.
@Dice ... ahh MUCH better interpretation I must say. Thanks for that! In the case of the meanings behind the names I definitely prefer Qixiang. Very nice.
So excited to see the actual reveal of this pet! <3
So excited to see the actual reveal of this pet! <3
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