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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 97 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago

Taiga's a Japanese name, though uncommon

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 80 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What are you doing steppe nomad?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months 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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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

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

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah, what the fuck?

A plain is mostly grasses. Meadows, fields, and battlefields have flowers.

And love can bloom on them.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 10 months ago

Love is a battlefield

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cliff

For(r)est

Meadow

River

Brook

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

For 2023, the number of births with name River is 3084, which represents 0.168 percent of total male births in 2023.

Tundra is not in the top 1000 names for any year of birth beginning with 2020. Please enter another name.

Was looking them up at https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi but now "This website is temporarily unavailable," did everyone have the same idea and it's only resourced for 1qps?

[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And she can kill you with her brain.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 10 months 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...

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago
[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Taiga is a nice name too

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What about For(r)est Gump?

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Marsha Marsha Marsha

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 19 points 10 months ago

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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!

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 14 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like a life destined for venirial disease

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Takes “draining the swamp” to a whole new (medical) level.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Only if they marry Bobby Itch or Jim Wrought.

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[–] wax@feddit.nu 13 points 10 months ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months 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.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not biomes but ...

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname tho.

South wetlands is reserved only for the exceptionally hot individuals.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname

Is it though?

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

Accepted by half of the two individuals involved

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 12 points 10 months ago
[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago
[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 8 points 10 months 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.

[–] Votes@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

They'd be pretty popular with the Runescape crowd, for whatever that's worth.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I bet you could find someone named chaparral.

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

[–] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I wanted to name a daughter Tundra.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Ma10gan@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

My beautiful sons Lupine Meadow and Coastal Sage Scrub.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago
[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Naming my kid Tundra or Elfin now, thanks!

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