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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago

Taiga's a Japanese name, though uncommon

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 80 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What are you doing steppe nomad?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 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 55 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 13 points 7 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 7 months 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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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cliff

For(r)est

Meadow

River

Brook

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[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And she can kill you with her brain.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 7 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 7 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...

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[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.

[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 19 points 7 months 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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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago
[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

Taiga is a nice name too

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What about For(r)est Gump?

[–] mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sitting behind these hairdos in class and at the theater definitely sucked back in the 80's.

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[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 21 points 7 months ago

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 19 points 7 months ago

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

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Marsha Marsha Marsha

[–] wunderbred@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 17 points 7 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 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Cesspool is an acceptable nickname

Is it though?

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago

Accepted by half of the two individuals involved

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[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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!

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[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 14 points 7 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.

[–] wax@feddit.nu 13 points 7 months ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

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

Sounds like a life destined for venirial disease

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[–] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago
[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

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

[–] qaopjlll@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Forest Whitaker DESTROYED

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 11 points 7 months ago
[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago
[–] jack@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

there's probably somebody named lake

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[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 8 points 7 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 7 months ago

I wanted to name a daughter Tundra.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 7 points 7 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 6 points 7 months ago

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

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