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[–] [email protected] 102 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Taiga's a Japanese name, though uncommon

[–] [email protected] 84 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What are you doing steppe nomad?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (3 children)

🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I guess cause when the name was made, a good place for a battle was a big ole field. (Speculation)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I wanted to name a daughter Tundra.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cliff

For(r)est

Meadow

River

Brook

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sierra is not an uncommon name, River as well. Probably more.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I do as well. She's a real badass too

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And she can kill you with her brain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We're possibly talking about different people, unless the River I know has latent superpowers that I'm unaware of.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago

Taiga is a nice name too

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

Marsha Marsha Marsha

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What about For(r)est Gump?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Taiga became popular in 2022. Definitely looking forward to seeing that one around. So many Ice Queen jokes.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

My son's class have girls with names like Savannah, Mali and Marina. I find it way too funny.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Theorycrafting this - Tundra would be a nice name. So would Mesa, Fen, and Delta.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sitting behind these hairdos in class and at the theater definitely sucked back in the 80's.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

In Spanish, Selva (rainforest) is a somewhat common girl's name

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Well, Tundra is already in use. Forest is more common than you know. Arid would work if it didn't mean what it does.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not biomes but ...

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname tho.

South wetlands is reserved only for the exceptionally hot individuals.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname

Is it though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

only if they're a single-prop airplane enthusiast

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Accepted by half of the two individuals involved

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If I have a daughter, I'll name her Swamp Thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like a life destined for venirial disease

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Not Man-Thing?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Xeric Shrubland is going to Google his name in 16 years and dedicate his life to hunting you down.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I bet you could find someone named chaparral.

Also I'm sure there's a scrub joke to be had here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Ephemeral Pond IIII. I am named after my great grandfather.

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