I've also found it helpful (especially in a fantasy or science fiction-y setting) to check different spellings of fairly common names in foreign languages that are still easy to recognize and pronounce.
I don't mean versions like "Antwon" just because someone couldn't spell "Antoine" correctly and decided to be extra creative pretentious anyway because apparently plain "Ant(h)ony" wasn't cool enough, but ... how about "Poul/Paul", "Karel/Karl", "Anja/Anya" or "Liisa/Lisa"?
The languages are Danish, Czech, German and Finnish, respectively, and legal first names which give that slightly different/alien touch without being too weird, IMO.
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Date: 2013-11-25 10:45 pm (UTC)I don't mean versions like "Antwon" just because someone couldn't spell "Antoine" correctly and decided to be
extra creativepretentious anyway because apparently plain "Ant(h)ony" wasn't cool enough, but ... how about "Poul/Paul", "Karel/Karl", "Anja/Anya" or "Liisa/Lisa"?The languages are Danish, Czech, German and Finnish, respectively, and legal first names which give that slightly different/alien touch without being too weird, IMO.