tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post8290140748357525449..comments2024-01-08T19:49:13.932+00:00Comments on Froogville: List of the Month - Randomly generated names for characters in a novelFrooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-44869236173424249662010-01-11T23:58:59.716+00:002010-01-11T23:58:59.716+00:00There's very little input from me here. I thin...There's very little input from me here. I think anyone would recognise these as names (and not, for the most part, specifically English, much less British, names).<br /><br />There's very little manipulation or 'cheating' in this list. I think, with all but a couple of exceptions, these pairs occurred in this order, and <b>with initial capitals</b>.<br /><br />It wasn't as though I was seeing medley benjamin and thinking, "Oh, 'medley' could be a surname, but maybe it would sound better as a plural." They all really came out of ReCAPTCHA like that.Frooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-79835356788956556612010-01-11T15:39:16.064+00:002010-01-11T15:39:16.064+00:00Oh, well done! I've never thought to actually ...Oh, well done! I've never thought to actually keep a log of the things; closest I came was when I got a (never-written) <em>title</em> from one -- <em>[The] Touraine Passenger</em>. <br /><br />Quite a few of the names in this list are spectacularly Wodehousian, which makes me wonder if a counterpart list from an American would be much different.<br /><br />Academicians go off on such oddball treks of research and speculation that I'd be surprised if none has yet investigated reCaptcha-type associations from the perspective of Gestalt psychology. In geometry, people need at least three points to see simple shapes, but reCaptcha's word pairs often conjure up whole steamy rain forests of meaning and narrative.JEShttp://johnesimpson.com/noreply@blogger.com