Ebonheart (FR)
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As the saying goes in my language, the exception confirms the rule (the norm), which means that if an exception is formulated as such, then there must be a rule, from which this exception can derogate. Which again means that a rule usually does apply, despite singular exceptions.
I have a site to recommend which lists the usage, origin and countries in which existing surnames are used. Here is the address:
You can also see from a map that, while the name exists almost everywhere in the world, it's mostly represented in North America, Western Europe and, not surprisingly, in African countries where English and French are still in use long after colonization. Everywhere else, the use of this first name is very marginal or almost non-existent.
A quick look at this same site showed me that Muskaan is a first and last name that exists in India and in the Hindi language.
On the other hand, a cross-search showed me that the first name Bituka doesn't exist apriori in Russian, Google translate gives a term meaning "intestine" in Filipino, the classic Google doesn't give any convincing result for such a first name in Russian and the Forebears site doesn't give any etymology or translation but points to a few countries in the world on the map where the term would exist (DRC, Kenya, India, Philippines, Papua New Guinea).
To answer your question about my personal inclinations, I'm not a racist, misogynist, homophobe or conservative. I think of myself as someone who is sufficiently open and tolerant of the whole LGBT spectrum, ethnicities, cultures and religions in general, without really pigeonholing myself into any one category. I'm not really interested in the frenzied debates there can be on questions of identity, for me it's often a dead end and a means of imposing views that are often very reactionary. Everyone is free to be whoever he, she, them wants to be. It's not up to me to define which social category someone belongs to.
Moreother, I don't mind games that are "woke", gay or trans-friendly in their narrative themes. Although the term "woke" bothers me because it's a stupid term that repulses everything and is used to denigrate almost everyone.
What motivates my intervention is rather the search for precision and authenticity, which seem to me to be important in defining the coherence and verisimilitude of a story and its protagonists (whether the setting is completely fictional, semi-fictional or, on the contrary, completely fantastic). A story has to be coherent at all times and well constructed, otherwise it breaks a kind of pact of trust between author and reader, even in a fantasy story where elements that might normally seem implausible must appear coherent in the structure of the work and the constituent elements of the narrative. And above all, here you use real-world elements (our world), names and cultural references that exist in principle in our world but are misapprehended, misunderstood or wrongly used in a register that doesn't correspond to them. Having said that, I had already pointed out a number of inconsistencies and errors (cultural references, names, syntax, narrative incoherence or implausibility) of the same type in your other visual novel, not so much a reproach as a simple observation.
I recommend proofreading, always fact-checking, cross-checking sources of information, working on drafts, having your work read by someone or a panel of readers, having someone help you with grammatical and spelling corrections, and having someone take care of the translation part of the text. I try to be constructive rather than abrasive in general, sorry if that seems to be the case. So, I'm not saying it's your case and I know I come across as a pain in the ass (^^), it's just that I just can't stand people who are incapable of questioning themselves out of bad faith or intellectual laziness, and therefore those who stubbornly refuse to take constructive remarks or criticism to heart in order to improve when presented with them.
So I never claimed that first names were unisex on a global scale, otherwise you've misread me or misunderstood me because I wasn't clear enough, in which case I'm sorry. I told you with certainty that this was not the case for French (it's my mother tongue), with a degree of certainty necessarily a little less in English, and for much more distant languages I can have no certainty at all, because that's impossible for me. I only then noticed that your other example mentioned earlier (your Google Images search capture) only shows photos of Asian women, a priori the same person in most if not all the photos displayed, whether it's a stage name or a pseudonym resulting from the romanization of a Korean term; this same romanization of Korean follows rules that are sometimes confusing if not vague, and which Koreans often choose for reasons of their own (meaning or etymology, aesthetic criteria). In all likelihood, this choice is based on phonetic criteria, as the word contains vowels, and sounds that are generally associated with feminine characteristics in their language.
As the saying goes in my language, the exception confirms the rule (the norm), which means that if an exception is formulated as such, then there must be a rule, from which this exception can derogate. Which again means that a rule usually does apply, despite singular exceptions.
I have a site to recommend which lists the usage, origin and countries in which existing surnames are used. Here is the address:
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.You can also see from a map that, while the name exists almost everywhere in the world, it's mostly represented in North America, Western Europe and, not surprisingly, in African countries where English and French are still in use long after colonization. Everywhere else, the use of this first name is very marginal or almost non-existent.
A quick look at this same site showed me that Muskaan is a first and last name that exists in India and in the Hindi language.
On the other hand, a cross-search showed me that the first name Bituka doesn't exist apriori in Russian, Google translate gives a term meaning "intestine" in Filipino, the classic Google doesn't give any convincing result for such a first name in Russian and the Forebears site doesn't give any etymology or translation but points to a few countries in the world on the map where the term would exist (DRC, Kenya, India, Philippines, Papua New Guinea).
To answer your question about my personal inclinations, I'm not a racist, misogynist, homophobe or conservative. I think of myself as someone who is sufficiently open and tolerant of the whole LGBT spectrum, ethnicities, cultures and religions in general, without really pigeonholing myself into any one category. I'm not really interested in the frenzied debates there can be on questions of identity, for me it's often a dead end and a means of imposing views that are often very reactionary. Everyone is free to be whoever he, she, them wants to be. It's not up to me to define which social category someone belongs to.
Moreother, I don't mind games that are "woke", gay or trans-friendly in their narrative themes. Although the term "woke" bothers me because it's a stupid term that repulses everything and is used to denigrate almost everyone.
What motivates my intervention is rather the search for precision and authenticity, which seem to me to be important in defining the coherence and verisimilitude of a story and its protagonists (whether the setting is completely fictional, semi-fictional or, on the contrary, completely fantastic). A story has to be coherent at all times and well constructed, otherwise it breaks a kind of pact of trust between author and reader, even in a fantasy story where elements that might normally seem implausible must appear coherent in the structure of the work and the constituent elements of the narrative. And above all, here you use real-world elements (our world), names and cultural references that exist in principle in our world but are misapprehended, misunderstood or wrongly used in a register that doesn't correspond to them. Having said that, I had already pointed out a number of inconsistencies and errors (cultural references, names, syntax, narrative incoherence or implausibility) of the same type in your other visual novel, not so much a reproach as a simple observation.
I recommend proofreading, always fact-checking, cross-checking sources of information, working on drafts, having your work read by someone or a panel of readers, having someone help you with grammatical and spelling corrections, and having someone take care of the translation part of the text. I try to be constructive rather than abrasive in general, sorry if that seems to be the case. So, I'm not saying it's your case and I know I come across as a pain in the ass (^^), it's just that I just can't stand people who are incapable of questioning themselves out of bad faith or intellectual laziness, and therefore those who stubbornly refuse to take constructive remarks or criticism to heart in order to improve when presented with them.
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