A WONDERFUL member! She gave me a punk tanty! Never ask for it or I will block you. You offer means NOTHING if you offer on my punk tanty! LE or not, Punkette55 is a great pet and you may never touch her. Once again, Thank you, Nevadagirl555!!!! ^0^
To make sure your pet really is well named, make sure it follows these simple rules. I have made this upon seeing people say their quell named Hawt_x_Buttr is a great name, or their Spiero named digm0nz is well named. So, to see if your pet is well named, read ahead.
Also, if anyone likes this and wants to copy and paste it into their blog, you definately have my permission as long as you leave this part in to say it was written by Sobolan, the giant Turnip Queen.
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Capitalization First, if you say your pet is well named, it had better be Capitalized. I don't care how nice the name is, if it isn't capitalized, it's not a proper noun. That's third grade english guys. Proper nouns are names of people or places. <b>New York</b> is a proper noun, <b>city</b> is not. Even regular nouns can become names if you capitalize them. Like <b>stone</b> is a thing you find on the ground, but <b>Stone</b> is a common first name. And last name. That capital letter makes all the difference. Your name begins with a capital letter, why shouldn't your pet's name? One last thing- the first letter, absolutely should be capitalized. But not the whole name. Stone- Good. stone-Not good. STONE-also, not good. and st0n3- is even worse.
Symbols and Numbers They are a no-no. I don't care if you think it's cool, or it's l33t. I don't care if your favorite online anime character is named B0n3zorz. If there is a number in the name, it is not a nicely named pet. Period. Same with symbols. Including the under_score I know you can't have spaces in the name. But that's okay, pet names should really be one word anyway. Oh, and random letters or symbols on the outside of a name? b_Johnnie_b or XCutieX? Bad. Not good.
One Word This is not necessarily iron clad, and some would even disagree. But I'd say that 95% of names with 2 words in it Bobby_Joe or PeggySue or SpringBreak are not to be considered well named. In those examples, Bobby_Joe already loses out because it has a symbol in it, an underscore. The other two are capitalized, and have no symbols or numbers. They're not terrible, but generally are frowned on. Most players prefer their pets' names to be all one word. So, if you say your pet named AprilShowers is a great named pet, and people disagree, don't be surprised. Personally, I think that a 2 part name can be okay if it sounds really nice and is spelled correctly and otherwise follows the pet name rules. But I've never traded for one either. And I probably wouldn't, and neither would a lot of people, keep it in mind.
Spelling It doesn't have to be perfect. I once had a pet named Davei instead of Davie. But if you mess around with the spelling, you'd better make sure you keep it short and sweet- no 2 part names. Also, don't go overboard with the vowels. Naavra is from the japanese Naara (meaning Deer) which has two letter a's next to each other, Anyone who watches Naruto knows Gaara, and should be familiar with the concept. If you have two letters together like that in a name not usually found together in english, you'd better have a good reason why. Just throwing extra vowels in is usually not a good plan. Davei was an acceptable, even good name- but Daaveii really is not a good name at all. Why? Think of it like this- picture a hand with an extra finger on it. Six fingers on your left hand. Sure, it might be kind of useful, but let's face it- that just wouldn't look right. (With all apologies to Count Rugen, of course.)
Real Word Bonus! If your pet name is based on a real name or a real word, this is considered to be a bonus, and isn't just well named but very well named. Get out your thesaurus if you decide to use a real word and make sure you can spell it right! Or go to a baby naming website and search through. That's usually how I do it. Caolan, Diantha, Avarielle, and Laertes were all named off of Babynames .com Another good place is to research on Wikipedia. I named a ercuw, Yinglong off wikipedia after learning Yinglong means winged dragon. Aurochs is also named off wikipedia, after a large, now extinct type of ox.
All in all it can take more time to find a good name that's not already taken for your pet- but it's worth it in the long run! Another good source of help?
The Marapet Pet Boards! People are always glad to help name pets.
One last bit of advice: Try to avoid naming pets after the costume they wear. Sure, right now you think that Burnt cosutme is the best, and you name your pet Bonfuego, after a mix of Bonfire and the spanish word for fire. But what if you suddenly get an ice costume for that pet? Now you have an ice pet named after a bonfire, which makes no sense.... It doesn't make it a bad name, it just makes it a wierd name, and sort of ties your pet to that costume forever.
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