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Did people actually named their dogs like that or is that wild imagination of some writer? A lot of them seem... impractical
by ilyt 4y ago
Did people actually named their dogs like that or is that wild imagination of some writer? A lot of them seem... impractical
- nerdponx 4y agoI wonder if people didn't train their dogs "by name" at that time. I imagine that many of these dogs were working dogs in some sense, and maybe they were more like horses in that their names were useful labels but not actually used to address the animal.
- lostlogin 4y agoIt would be interesting to know the answer to this. I find it hard to believe that a favourite dog or horse, working not, wouldn’t get talked to and named by it’s owner. At a minimum, it’s useful, as you can get a particular dog to do something when it’s addressed individually.
- Enginerrrd 4y ago>At a minimum, it’s useful, as you can get a particular dog to do something when it’s addressed individually. That can work, particularly with smarter breeds that can understand context, but it actually isn't anywhere close to best practice. MUCH better is to train separate commands for the same action for each dog.
- preommr 4y agoI swear I call my name by everything other than her official name.
- MarcelOlsz 4y agoEveryone in my family has a different name for the dog. Referring to the dog as "The Dog" is forbidden.
- mchaver 4y agoIf we assume the names were pronounced with Middle English, they would sound quite a bit different compared to Modern English. You can hear a few words here. https://forvo.com/languages-pronunciations/enm/ https://forvo.com/languages-pronunciations/enm/ I was looking for a Middle English text to speech tool to try out some of the names, but no luck finding one.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoWas thinking the same thing. In general, though, I think the sounds should be pretty accurate if you give the vowels their sounds before the Great Vowel Shift, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift.
- permo-w 4y agomaking a middle englosh text-to-speech tool seems like a fools errand for a number of reasons
- ilyt 4y agoI know that but still I'd imagine calling the dog Bultyngebrake or Cowntirfette ("caught-in-fire") would be pretty unwieldy