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[summer_sparrow]

Hi Flist!

Dear flist, you (combined) have a lot more science than this poor insomniac. Who is solving her insomnia by writing. Who kind of needs scientific names for elves, werewolves, trolls, and possible other mythological sorts, that don't sound totally retarded.

It is a universe where most of the mythological humanoids exist, as branches of the human line and have recently come out of hiding a la True Blood. Still trying to figure out what Neanderthals are (I am determined they have to be something, because they're awesome and I love them.)


This is what happens when "His Girl Friday," "Least Of My Kind," and "Moonlight" collide inside my brain.

Comments

[calicokat.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have any science I'm aware of, but werewolves are clinically lycanthropes? (And vampires have Renfield syndrome.) And elves have Stahl's Deformity. :D ... I don't think this is quite what you're looking for, though. >>'

[sparrowinsky.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, not quite. Thanks though.

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

How nicely Latinate do these need to be? Werewolves could be homo lupus or homo lupatus, and vampires could be homo cruoris; they're slightly mangled Latin, but they might serve.

[sparrowinsky.livejournal.com]

Basically I just need them good enough not to immediately set off the bullshit meter of someone reading it. I'm not trying for super-sciency... it's getting kind of a vaguely YA urban not-quite-fantasy vibe going so far, and I'm not posting it anywhere but my journal anyway. :)

Thanks.

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

If you're writing people who frequently use species names, then you might even abbreviate to (for example) h. cruoris. It might look less silly and derivative.