Just what is Fred with?

Just reading a little bit of story in a quest and I can't help but think "Lolorito" is something similar to when my mates at work would call Newcastle Football Club "Lolcastle" back when they changed managers every month and inevitably went down. Whenever I read "Lol" now on, I'm going to think of Lolorito. There are a bunch of amusing NPC names around Eorzea - which are the ones you've liked and disliked the most?

I have to say, for the one that inspired the title of this thread, the name actually really annoys me as I always feel that it's not a name - it's an incomplete sentence!

I hate almost all of them because of how SE names them.

They just smash their face against the keyboard and it turns out an NPC name, then capitalize the first letter and throw in a stupid apostrophe somewhere. Try it.

Rewd'egws.

Naming ftl.

dew'sqa, brilliant.

Are they trying to be welsh? Ahhh the welsh.

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Originally Posted by Tibian

I hate almost all of them because of how SE names them.

They just smash their face against the keyboard and it turns out an NPC name, then capitalize the first letter and throw in a stupid apostrophe somewhere. Try it.

Rewd'egws.

Naming ftl.

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First off, I am so upset that actually works lol.

As far as NPCs that made me lol, in north Gridania there is a dark-skinned man named "Littlejohn" who sells vegetables I think. A far cry from making bad music I must say. :P (Inb4 flamed)

Tried it, too:
Afguk'ji.
The nice thing about it is that you can use it for males and females :D

No, seriously, most names sound nice, but are waaaay too hard to remember.
I like Y'shtola(1), Papalymo(2) and Yda(3) though, because their names are beautiful(1), funny(2) or short and easy to remember(3):)

Catgirls have apostrophes and Elves have French-ish names (-ioux, -eaux, etc). Humans kinda go all over the places and Lalafells love repeating syllables.

It's a silly thing SE does. I swear some of these names scream, "I banged on the keyboard cause I was out of ideas" while others whisper "My... my name is Taylor..."

The sad thing is, the fact that you can roll your face on the keyboard to get a similar sounding name to the XIV names just means we won't remember them.

None of the characters now are memorable except Cid, Thancred, Yshtola, and the Papsmear NPC from Grid... Paplymno? Anyway his name is still difficult to spell.

Its not that I am lazy, but these names aren't even names. Compare these names to other MEMORABLE Final Fantasy characters and notice the difference.

Terra
Cecil
Locke
Edgar
Lightning
Snow
Relm
Kain
Garnet
Squall
Laguna

I just threw out a few, but they all have relatively easy names -- but still unique.

Its like the miserable pirate talk with a thousand apostrophes per sentence. I can't read and logically understand it in enough time to continue on my merry way.

Please ... just name the NPCs something a bit more normal.

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Originally Posted by Oscillate_Wildly

dew'sqa, brilliant.

Are they trying to be welsh? Ahhh the welsh.

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To be born Welsh is a privilege, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but a song in your heart. ;D

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Originally Posted by Tibian

The sad thing is, the fact that you can roll your face on the keyboard to get a similar sounding name to the XIV names just means we won't remember them.

None of the characters now are memorable except Cid, Thancred, Yshtola, and the Papsmear NPC from Grid... Paplymno? Anyway his name is still difficult to spell.

Its not that I am lazy, but these names aren't even names. Compare these names to other MEMORABLE Final Fantasy characters and notice the difference.

Terra
Cecil
Locke
Edgar
Lightning
Snow
Relm
Kain
Garnet
Squall
Laguna

I just threw out a few, but they all have relatively easy names -- but still unique.

Its like the miserable pirate talk with a thousand apostrophes per sentence. I can't read and logically understand it in enough time to continue on my merry way.

Please ... just name the NPCs something a bit more normal.

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I'm not entirely sure I agree. I think the only reason we remember such names is because we are involved with them more than once or twice. From XI: Joachrim and Horst aren't common normal names either but we remember them because we have to talk them every bloody time we want to do anything in Abyssea. All those "notable" names you mentioned from XIV also happen to be NPCs players have a lot of interaction with.

Its just like player names, even if they have the most ridiculous name; after you have to type /tell <ridiculous name> several times, you'll learn to spell it and remember it :P

Maybe. I agree that the more interaction you have with a character the more you are willing to remember it. Regardless though, naming an NPC Uwilsyng is just absurd. I'd prefer a little bit more traditional rather than "fun" names at this point in the game.

I wasn't that big of an XI player, I think I briefly remember seeing Joacrim, not Horst though. Regardless, I can pronounce those names just like any other name and I don't have to read it over five times before I understand it.
One run through of a name should be enough to understand how to read and comprehend it.