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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago

Taiga's a Japanese name, though uncommon

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 82 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What are you doing steppe nomad?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 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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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 60 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days 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 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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[–] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I wanted to name a daughter Tundra.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cliff

For(r)est

Meadow

River

Brook

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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago
[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 40 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And she can kill you with her brain.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 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.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 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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[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.

[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 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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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

Taiga is a nice name too

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Marsha Marsha Marsha

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What about For(r)est Gump?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 19 points 6 days ago

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 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!

[–] StThicket@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 14 points 6 days ago

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

[–] mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 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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[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 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.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname

Is it though?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

only if they're a single-prop airplane enthusiast

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago

Accepted by half of the two individuals involved

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like a life destined for venirial disease

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[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days 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 6 days ago
[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 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.

[–] Votes@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

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

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