Adjectives for the new planets/muns?

[Elven_sword]

We need proper adjectives for the new planets and Minmus. Personally, I use Minmoid, but I've seen Minar and Minmusar, which are clearly incorrect and wrong and bad. We'll also need adjectives for Eve, Gilly, and Egar(?). I suggest Gillian for Gilly, any others?

[Thobewill10]

A few proposals. My favs are underlined

Charr: Charren, Charrian, Chartian

Eve: Evian, Evoid

Kerbin: Kerbal

Mun: Munar

Minmus: Minmar, Minmusian, Minutian, Minmoid

Bop: Boppian, Boppity, Boppar, Boplar

Gilly: Gillian, Gilliloid

[NovaSilisko]

I like the latter three that you've underlined, not too crazy about Charren, though.

[Thobewill10]

Nor am i, really, but i couldn't think of anything better at the time.

Heh, maybe Charrtreuse

[Endeavour]

I like boppity

[Znath]

Well firstly, a moon is a moon; Mun is Kerbin's moon only. It's the proper name for Kerbin's moon.

This is similar to the name for Earth's moon actually being Luna. Thus, Lunar surface.

I imagine there's some method for naming the descriptive version of a proper name, eg Venusian, Martian, Murcurian, Lunar, etc.. I'm no English major though. So I couldn't really say what the proper method for deriving it for like "Eve" or "Bop" would be though.

[semininja]

Boppish, after the form of the (somewhat dated) "foppish"?

[maltesh]

With regards to the adjective for Minmus, I Invariably wind up using "Minmal."

[Elven_sword]

We can't use Evian, that's bottled water.

[Nibb31]

The "-oid" suffix means "in the shape of", so a "Minmoid landing" would be a landing that looks like Minmus, which doesn't make any sense.

[flaillomanz]

We can't use Evian, that's bottled water.

What about naivE?

[EndlessWaves]

Well firstly, a moon is a moon; Mun is Kerbin's moon only. It's the proper name for Kerbin's moon.

This is similar to the name for Earth's moon actually being Luna. Thus, Lunar surface.

No, Luna is merely an alternate name used when it needs to be distinguished from other moons. The Moon is it's actual, full and proper name in English.

I imagine there's some method for naming the descriptive version of a proper name, eg Venusian, Martian, Murcurian, Lunar, etc.. I'm no English major though. So I couldn't really say what the proper method for deriving it for like "Eve" or "Bop" would be though.

Those words picked from other languages will often used the descriptive term associated with it there thus mars and martian or mercury and mercurial but it's often modified to suit English ears or uses. For example Venus would originally have been something like Venereal but that has another association with the goddess of love so venusian is more common now.

A few more for the list:

Charr will vary depending on whether you want to pronounce it with a long or short a (like Charred or like Charon). I would suggest Charrel and Charrl be added to the list though.

Eve could be Even, Evel (or Evil), Evemral, Eef.

Minmus could be Minute, Minus

Bop could be Boppin, Boppan, Bopapart, Boppy, Bope

Gilly of course has to be Katzenellen.

[Paprika]

I thought this was going to be making up Kerbal words about the planets, like Kerbalicious or other smurf-like K-words haha.

Can the one for Bop be Bodacious?

[theflyingfish]

Charr will vary depending on whether you want to pronounce it with a long or short a (like Charred or like Charon). I would suggest Charrel and Charrl be added to the list though.

Is Charr pronounced with a soft CH, as in Charon (pronounced Sharon) or with a hard CH, as in charred or charged?

I can see four variations:

Share

Sharr (Similar to Shard)

Chair

Charr (as in charred)

At first, I thought the last one was the obvious choice, but then thought that the second one (Sharr) sounded pretty cool.

What about naivE?

Haha!

Edited August 20, 2012 by theflyingfish
I LOVE EDITING.

[TerranCmdr]

My favorite so far has to be "Minutian" for Minmus. Nice work there.

What's wrong with Chartian? I kinda like it.

Edited August 20, 2012 by TerranCmdr

[EndlessWaves]

What's wrong with Chartian? I kinda like it.

It does make it sounds like it's populated by Kerbal Chartists.

Edited August 20, 2012 by EndlessWaves

[NAMROG]

Personally I wouldn't mind if we kept the red planet named "red planet". They'd be Reds as an adjective.

[HarvesteR]

Interesting topic this one... Completely unofficially, here's my take on it:

Kerbin: Kerbal

Mun: Munar

Minmus: Minmusi

Eve: Even

Char: Charian

Gilly: Gillian

Bop: Bopee

These are just suggestions tho... There's no 'canon' for this yet.

Cheers

[wildkittyv1]

Is Charr pronounced with a soft CH, as in Charon (pronounced Sharon) or with a hard CH, as in charred or charged?

Just FYI, Charon is pronounced pretty much exactly like the name Karen. Although the second syllable has a bit of discrepancy with its pronunciation, it's pretty much accepted that the Ch represents a hard C as in cat or commando.

Anyway, some solid ideas thrown around in this thread but I'm not sure how I even feel about it. This is one of those things I'd have to brainstorm over a bit especially with the new planets, but I'm definitely a fan of Minmus(s)ian for Minmus stuff. I roll my eyes enough when people call it Minimus, never mind leaving the latter half of the moon's name out of its descriptor.

[EndlessWaves]

There's no 'canon' for this yet.

No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that Kerbal affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.

Another possibility would be Charizard for Charr, to borrow from another addictive game

Bop definitely seems like the tricky one. What about putting an H after it and having something like Bophran?

Edited August 20, 2012 by EndlessWaves

[PKMonaut]

I have no strong feelings apart from disliking anything with "-oid" in it. I'd lean towards Minmar or Minmusian, and perhaps Boppar. I hope there's a body in the system at some point with a name ending in -an, because of the fun you can have with adjectives like Titanic for Titan