I wanted to name a daughter Tundra.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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My son's class have girls with names like Savannah, Mali and Marina. I find it way too funny.
Tony the Taiga
Taiga's a Japanese name, though uncommon
Steppe son
What are you doing steppe nomad?
Using flat terrain to facilitate fast movement and colonization. I sure hope no one invents a way to kill me while I descend on your village
oooh if i put this gray powder mixture into a tube and add fire it goes boom! how fun!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair
Meaning "plain", "field", "meadow", "battlefield"
🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶
I guess cause when the name was made, a good place for a battle was a big ole field. (Speculation)
Yeah, what the fuck?
A plain is mostly grasses. Meadows, fields, and battlefields have flowers.
And love can bloom on them.
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Sierra is not an uncommon name, River as well. Probably more.
Marsha
Taiga became popular in 2022. Definitely looking forward to seeing that one around. So many Ice Queen jokes.
Marsha Marsha Marsha
I know a kid named River 🤷🏻♂️
I do as well. She's a real badass too
And she can kill you with her brain.
We're possibly talking about different people, unless the River I know has latent superpowers that I'm unaware of.
I'm thinking of River Tam, from Firefly.
Whether she can or can't do that is still debatable, but she did tell Jayne she could. And she can read minds, so it's not entirely out of the question...
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Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.
Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass
looks like a modernized version of an old english name, something like "Serric"
lo Serric, i knew him well
If I ever see it as a name I'm just going to assume it's someone who was named Eric by his parents and had it changed to be edgier when he was fourteen
Taiga is a nice name too
In Spanish, Selva (rainforest) is a somewhat common girl's name
Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.
What about For(r)est Gump?
Tangent but.. Wow it didn’t even occur to me that paludariums were so named because that’s the type of ecosystem they are mimicking, rather than some guy named Paul invented a cool-style terrarium/aquarium merger.. (example below)
TIL!
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Well, Tundra is already in use. Forest is more common than you know. Arid would work if it didn't mean what it does.
Not biomes but ...
Cesspool is an acceptable nickname tho.
South wetlands is reserved only for the exceptionally hot individuals.
Cesspool is an acceptable nickname
Is it though?
only if they're a single-prop airplane enthusiast
Accepted by half of the two individuals involved
Theorycrafting this - Tundra would be a nice name. So would Mesa, Fen, and Delta.
Delta you say?
Sitting behind these hairdos in class and at the theater definitely sucked back in the 80's.
I still don't know how open flames for cigarettes and big hair co-existed.
I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog
Chaparral?
Xeric Shrubland is going to Google his name in 16 years and dedicate his life to hunting you down.
Xeric sounds kind of like a cool name to give a kid if you want that kid to suffer for their entire life.
But then again they could rise above it and become a cool person, maybe not quite on the level of Streetlamp leMoose but close.
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