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Post by snell_mouse on May 19, 2015 10:30:27 GMT 9
Hey guys, I was asked to come up with some generic place/people names to replace the names of real ones in a script we're using for a interpreting workshop.
Any ideas? The original involved a delegation from America so American-sounding things would be best, but I'm also interested in hearing what generic-sounding names in other countries might be too.
Ideas I have so far -
Names: John Smith, Jane Doe
Places: Springfield (apparently it's the most common city name?), Bakersfield, something something ville? I particularly need help with a generic place name that isn't too obviously a real place.
Thank you~
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Post by ザ・penguin54 on May 19, 2015 10:39:39 GMT 9
Bakersfield is a fairly large city in California no? Springfield could be OK since it is used by the Simpsons after all.
My generic (tony-sounding suburban) place name ideas:
Pleasantville
Fairview (totally stole that from Desperate Housewives >.>)
Brookville
Sunny Springs
Oak Heights
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Post by snell_mouse on May 19, 2015 10:42:56 GMT 9
Hm I thought about Pleasantville but since it's like a movie (or TV show?) or something I wondered if that might be better to avoid...I kind of like Sunny Springs.  |
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Post by telly on May 19, 2015 10:59:17 GMT 9
Metropolis! Gotham City! Smallville! Entenhausen (or Duckberg, apparently in English)
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Post by snell_mouse on May 19, 2015 11:00:57 GMT 9
Haha somehow I doubt they'd let me put Gotham City in the 資料...though it's also entirely possible they wouldn't recognize it and it would go through.  |
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Post by Shimanchu 2024 on May 19, 2015 12:22:31 GMT 9
Whenever I look at a US map, I seem to see lots of Des Moines's
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Post by Aya Raincoat on May 20, 2015 11:24:58 GMT 9
How about Townsville?
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Post by snell_mouse on May 20, 2015 11:26:36 GMT 9
I was thinking about Townsville, actually! I found a site that lists all the cities in the US (what) and was looking through them and thought that would be nicely bland.
Any other generic names (for people)?
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keio chris
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Post by keio chris on May 20, 2015 11:32:07 GMT 9
Any other generic names (for people)? Bob Loblaw. Seriously though, the go to one in the UK would be John Smith or Joe Bloggs. |
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Post by snell_mouse on May 20, 2015 11:37:50 GMT 9
Joe Bloggs, interesting. I've never met anybody named Bloggs - is it common in the UK?
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keio chris
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Post by keio chris on May 20, 2015 11:58:28 GMT 9
Not at all, but for some reason it's the go to "generic guy" name haha.
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Post by Shimanchu 2024 on May 20, 2015 12:51:53 GMT 9
John Johnson
James Jameson
Steve Stevenson
Dave Davidson
Wait there's more
Carl Carlson
Pete Peterson
Will Wilson
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Post by marudate on May 25, 2015 11:40:50 GMT 9
I used Peter Parker. A couple of them got the reference.
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Post by Ividia on May 29, 2015 16:18:14 GMT 9
The last time I was writing example conversation for my English class, I went to the wikipedia list of "most common names by country" and used a bunch from the UK, USA and Japan.
They had charts for first name and surname!
(Unsurprisingly the UK's most common surname is Smith.)
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