SPELLING RULES , OK?
Every tried looking up a science fiction name? Couldn’t find it? Well here are some of the reasons we can’t spell sci fi words!
1. They spell existing words funetically :
Abe’s Oddysee (game) (Odyssey); Abe’s Exoddus (game) (Exodus); Cyberia (game) (Siberia); Sibonetics (Fiend without a Face),(cybernetics); Kamelion (Doctor Who: the King’s Demons) (chameleon); Kameo (Gunsword) (cameo), Karbunkle (BMM) (Carbuncle) , Karibdis (BG Murder on the Rising Star)(Charybdis) , Kheel (Kyle XY: What’s the Frequency Kyle?) (Keel; ,Knute (Appleseed (Canute), Koofoo (Butt Ugly Martians) (Khufu), Koopa (Super Mario Brothers)(Cooper); Kosmonaut (game) (cosmonaut); Kowalsky (Stargate) (Kowalski) ; Kreed (game) (creed); Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (title) (Apocalypse); Toombs (Chronicles of Riddick) (tombs); Xerconian Ceramic Armour (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)(Zirconian) ; Z Krypt (Starblazers) (Crypt)
2. They add an apostrophe, anywhere in the word :
Ba’ku (Star Trek: Insurrection); G’Kar (Babylon 5), Goa’uld (Stargate); Jem’Hadar (Deep Space 9); Loque’eque (Enterprise: Extinction); Raa’Keel ( Farscape: Lava’s a Many Splendored Thing); Rya’c (Stargate SG1: Bloodlines);Teal’c (Stargate SG1); T’raltixx (Farscape: Crackers Don’t Matter),
3. They use lots of consonants with few or no vowels:
Kcrackic (Farscape: The Flax), Kltpzyxm (Smallville: Jinx); Zdyb (Earth Final Conflict: If You Could Read My Mind); ZZyzx Labs (KXY The List is Life); [Refer to the blog : Sesquipaedialisms Or: the longer is not the Better).
4. They spell words starting in ‘C’ with ‘K’ :
Kandy Man (Doctor Who: the Happiness Patrol) (candy); Krystal (Star Foxx Adventures)(Crystal); Krypt (Starblazers (Crypt); Klone (Blackstar) (clone); Kosmonaut (game) (cosmonaut);
5. They swap ‘ph’ and ‘f’ :
Phage (Star Trek Voyager); Zixx Phunkee Zee (Zixx Level One ) Funky
6. They spell words ending in ‘ck’ with ‘k’: Chik (Black Mask); Jak (Jak and Daxter) ; Nik (The Girl from Tomorrow); Zak (Deep Water Black)
7. They double X :
LeLexx (series title/ ship); Rixx (Star Trek Next Generation : Conspiracy); Vexx (Game/character); Zaxxon (Game); Zixx: Level One (Game).
8. They change ‘I’ to ‘y’ :
G Gryffen (K-9 Regeneration); Kryss (Earth Final Conflict: The Fields); Klytus (Flash Gordon);Sybok (Star Trek: The Final Frontier); Trychus (Operation Neptune); Trykers (The Saga of Ryzom); Trymon (The Colour of Magic), Zyra (When Worlds Collide);
9. They change ‘u’ to ‘oo’ : Koofoo (Butt Ugly Martians) (Khufu),
10. They double ‘a’ for no good reason, without an apostrophe to change emphasis :
Kaarvok (Farscape), Raahm (Tracker: Roswell ), Raaja (Earth Girl Arjuna); Raakin (E Borderland), Raatib Singh (The Phantom 2009 ), Raalgon Empire (Irresponsible Captain Taylor); Saahm (Tracker: Roswell); Skaara (Stargate SG1); Staanz (Farscape); Traag (Fantastic Planet); Zaat (Film, 1972); Zhaan (Farscape)
11 They double ‘I’ for no valid purpose: Hiigaran (Homeworld 2); Vidiian (Star Trek Voyager); Viinerine (TNG Face of the Enemy);
12 They double ‘u’ when not necessary:
Gomtuu (Star Trek: Tin Man);
13 They add a gratuitous ‘h’ :
Kharak (Blakes’ 7: the City at the Edge of the World); Kheel (Kyle XY: What’s the Frequency Kyle?); Khefka IV (Deep Space 9: Invasive Procedures); Rhaam (Jeff Hawke, First citizen of the Space Age, 1956), Rhed Thorrn (Farscape: A Bug’s Life), Rhee (Tracker: Pilot), Rho-ha (Earth Final Conflict: The Secret of Strand Hill), Ruby Rhod (Fifth Element), Rhondium Particles (Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead), Rovhu (Farscape: Eat Me);
14 They put capital letters anywhere:
eXtinction (game); Hypersonic eXtreme (Game); MegaMan xTreme (game); Space HoRSE (game); seaQuest DSV (series title); tranCendenZ (eXistenZ), Wormhole X-Treme! (Stargate SG1: Wormhole X-Treme!);
15 They're inconsistent
Jack and Jak;
Kryten (Red Dwarf), Kriton (Star Trek: Elaan of Troyius), Crichton;
Komar (Star Trek Voyager Cathexis), Komarr (Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Series), Comarre (Clarke: The Lion of Comarre),
Rhys (Torchwood), Reece, Reese
16 They use X for Z :
Xander Bly (Power Rangers Mystic Force) ; Xanxia (Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet ); Xarai
(Farscape: Eat Me ); Xax (Andromeda: Rose in the Ashes ); Xybo, Mr (Slider’s The Return of Maggie Beckett ); Xylok (Sarah Jane Adventures: The Lost Boy)
17 They use ‘z’ for ‘s’ : Gruntz (game) ; Toolzz (The Bots Master);
