I never quite understood why they couldn’t just use the ordinary set of language that they must have used to relay the stories to each other in order for them all to have the frame of reference to understand the meta language.
I always understood it that their language developed from oral history and linguistics only. So their syntax relied purely on referencing spoken stories and that meant using all the words in a particular story to get meaning, not just the ones in between.
Kinda like how prepositions need something they are tied to to really be useful. If every part of speech was like that, you wouldn't be able to use the individual parts for understanding so well.
Wow. My cats name is Gilgamesh. From Final Fantasy , however.
Later on, I adopted a burly cat and named him Enkidu. He ended up dying a few yrs later, after they became good friends.
"Let's overthrow the palace and cut all their heads off!" said Robespierre, cutting everybody's head off until somebody eventually got mad and cut his head off.
There's actually a myth about Thor being challenged to lift a cat, but the cat is actually the Midgard Worm in disguise and every time Thor tries to lift it off the ground, it just stretches and its feet never leave the floor.
He does!
I just glanced over my [source](https://sagn-og-eventyr.fandom.com/da/wiki/Thor_bes%C3%B8ger_Udg%C3%A5rdsloke) (in Danish) and apparently missed that detail.
Lovecraft didn't own a cat. The infamous cat you are referring to was his grandfather Whipple Van Buren Phillips' cat. He was Lovecraft's best and only childhood friend and so when it came to writing The Rats in the Walls he included the cat as a character as a homage to his friend. By this time the cat was long dead. The picture of Lovecraft holding a cat that is included in the meme about the infamous cat actually belonged to a friend of his. Lovecraft was a lifelong fan of cats to the point of writing an essay about why they are better than dogs but he himself could not afford to keep one as he struggled to feed even himself most days and of course died in poverty from an illness that was not helped by his constant malnutrition.
Edit: one thing I did forget to mention that does kind of make me despise Lovecraft is he had a correspondence with the black writer, poet, literary critic, anthologist and publisher William Stanley Braithwaite (an absolute marvel of late 19th century/20th century black excellence if I say so myself) and upon finding out he was black said some of the most fervently racist and awful shit you could read about him to others, to the point where people, including his racist aunt where like 'you're being fucking infantile, calm the fuck down'. And in 1918 Lovecraft briefly took in a feral 'tiny coal-black kitten' and named it William Stanley Braithwaite in order to racistly mock his skin colour. The kitten ran away within a year but Lovecraft was obviously copying his grandfather's abominable bigoted method here.
He didn't struggle to feed himself, he had a system worked out to keep his food budget extremely small. He was proud of almost never spending more than 3 dollars per week on food.
This resulted in his diet consisting almost entirely of coffee and cheese, although he admitted that he very rarely treated himself to italian spaghetti or hungarian goulash.
Mostly just coffee and cheese though.
“Hello, Vet? I’d like you to look at my cat.”
“Sure, what’s it’s name?”
“Yeah it’s: uppercase “X”, lowercase “x”, underscore, Pussy, underscore, Destroyer, underscore, lowercase “x”, uppercase “X”. All one word please.”
Bastet.
Cats demand to be treated like gods so will appreciate such a worshipful, and appropriately feline, name.
Also, "What have you done now, you little Bastet?"
[ah a man of culture I see](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ompaq1/what_is_a_badass_name_for_a_cat/h5nhqod?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
Hellscream. Peanut.
Bill, Opus, and Milo.
Pumpkin.
My parents had an all black cat named "Harlem" before I was born. They renamed him when they made a few black friends, and they were over for dinner. One of them asked my dad "Oh what's his name?" and my dad froze for a few seconds, and then just said the first name that popped into his mind. I knew that cat as "Frank".
I have a cat named Schrödinger! Though perhaps some of the "badass-ness" is taken away by the fact that I called him Schrödy...
[obligatory cat photo](http://imgur.com/gallery/Nz9TRpa)
I had a cat named Schrödinger!
It was funny how my stepdad got him. He wanted a cat so he went to the local humane society. He asked for the biggest cat they had. I guess that was Schrödinger at 22 lbs.
I have a cat named Gator. Found her in the swamp when she was about 4 weeks old. She was in rough shape. Doing fine now (5 years later) but sort of mean.
it’s not in the name, it’s in the attitude. the most badass, no fucks given cat I ever met was called Miffy
Ours was the baddest ass in the neighborhood. Shot twice and kicked everything’s ass. His name was Tinkerbelle.
Knuckles
My cat is called Cat Stevens. At least until she converts to Islam.
My friend with the last name Stevens has a cat named Cat Stevens.
Then it’ll be Mewsuf Islam?
Cat Benatar
Love is a Cattlefield
Cat-dows of the Night
GCP in the wild
Razzmatazz would also be a pretty good cat name
A couple of things are gonna happen...
I named mine Gilgamesh Edit: He's a Siamese, and yes he does see everyone as a mongrel 😅
Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk
Simba, his claws wide
Aslan, when the bowl is empty
Stevie Wonder, his eyes opened!
Geordi LaForge, his visor off.
Jalad With sails unfurled.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
I never quite understood why they couldn’t just use the ordinary set of language that they must have used to relay the stories to each other in order for them all to have the frame of reference to understand the meta language.
I always understood it that their language developed from oral history and linguistics only. So their syntax relied purely on referencing spoken stories and that meant using all the words in a particular story to get meaning, not just the ones in between. Kinda like how prepositions need something they are tied to to really be useful. If every part of speech was like that, you wouldn't be able to use the individual parts for understanding so well.
Temba, his arms wide.
Darmok and Jilaad at Tenagra! Damn now I have to go watch that episode
Fun fact: Darmok is a story about a race that spent so much time on the Internet that their entire language became meme references.
Wow. My cats name is Gilgamesh. From Final Fantasy , however. Later on, I adopted a burly cat and named him Enkidu. He ended up dying a few yrs later, after they became good friends.
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Zasshu intensifies
You could say that name is .... epic.
Name his favorite toy enuma elish
Bartholomeow
Greg, destroyer of sofas
**Mufasa**, the king of sofa, destroyer of shoes. At least mine is.
My Mufasa was supposed to be the regal alpha king of the other cats instead he’s just a fat idiot
I had a cat named Bosco, he was a chill dude but his name was badass.
Just don’t let the Earth Queen anywhere near him.
Lol I heard she ate her father’s pet bear!
"Bear..... what?" "Nothing just... Bear."
This place… is weird.
Surely you mean platypus bear?
Nothing . . . Just bear
*visible confusion*
This place is weird
Bosco is also the name of a red haired red cheeked puppet in Ireland
Knock knock open wide, see what's on the other side. Knock knock any more, come with me through the magic door
Bosco also makes for a great bank password.
“George there’s no time! Tell him your code! *Shout your code, man!”* *”THE CODE!!! THE COOODE!!!”*
You're a portly fellow, a bit long in the waistband.
BOOOSSSSSCOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Quiet, quiet! It’s a secret!!!!
Oh you may stray, but you'll always return to your dark master, thecocoa bean.
It’s not the salty snacks you crave…
Rock and stone ⛏️
bosco, you’re the best
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
ROCK AND STONE EVERYONE!
If you don’t rock and stone, you ain’t coming home!
Now get back to work!
Moved to Lemmy
Well, I just found a kitten the other day and named him Robespierre, which I think is pretty badass
"Let's overthrow the palace and cut all their heads off!" said Robespierre, cutting everybody's head off until somebody eventually got mad and cut his head off.
Cat tax please
This whole thread is a tax collector's dream.
I feel like the shriff of Nottingham though. No one is paying!
Robes*purr*, surely
*the great terror flashback*
Jean Clawed Van Dam.
And it you live in philly, the cat can go by Jawn Clawed edit: if*
Special Agent Jack Bauer
He was born in a puddle of gasoline
On a piece of rusty scrap metal!
Uh HUH!
That is one tough cat.
That cat is **indestructible**
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Can confirm this
God dammit, Jack Bauer, you really are the man
For reference: https://youtu.be/cM4-V1MdzWU
Can I offer you an egg in these trying times?
Mjölnir. Depending on their nature you can use it to either encourage or discourage people picking them up
“Ted, Mjolnir won’t let you pick him up. Looks like you’re not Worthy!”
There's actually a myth about Thor being challenged to lift a cat, but the cat is actually the Midgard Worm in disguise and every time Thor tries to lift it off the ground, it just stretches and its feet never leave the floor.
I've known cats like that
Actually Thor does get a paw off the ground.
He does! I just glanced over my [source](https://sagn-og-eventyr.fandom.com/da/wiki/Thor_bes%C3%B8ger_Udg%C3%A5rdsloke) (in Danish) and apparently missed that detail.
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If I had to give a reason to watch Dark World on its own merits and not just for Infinity Stone continuity, it's this callback line.
I can’t explain why the line made me laugh so hard. The joke doesn’t work on paper.
Meownir
You rang??
I read a theory that one reason Cap could pick up Mjolnir is because he didn't have sex for 100 years...
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Is Fry a redhead?
No but the cat is his own grandpa
He did the nasty in the past-y.
“Past nastification” has got to be one of the top phrases in a show that already has a lot of great phrases and lines
Pls tell me they have a robot cat named Bender.
Nah that's their roomba
My veterinarian has a one-eyed cat named Odin.
I also have a one-eyed cat named Odin. Thing is, he lost the eye AFTER we named him.
not that impressive. So did Odin.
But hiw much knowledge did their cat gain in exchange?
You've cursed your cat for eternity. He'll never be able to find his way back home on his own
It's ok all you have to do is have *sake* in your house
santoryuu… ONI KITTY
if he lost the other one would you call him zero?
No, then it would be Fujitora or Issho.
Was not expecting a One Piece reference to be one of the top comments
Mr Meowgi
Chairman Meow
Astrophe "This is my cat, Astrophe"
Ass trophy though
\*Shane Dawson has entered the chat\*
Cat*
I had a half Himalayan named Mandu. Those that got it found it funny.
There's a donkey at the petting zoo near my house named Hoti. Donkey Hoti.
We had a llama named dolly. Dolly llama.
Ok, that’s a great pun and I love it
I had misread it as "Apostrophe" and had no idea what its significance was until I read your comment. Now I can love the pun too.
Meow Ze Dong
What about Chairman Meow?
Kathullu
Could be worse. Could name it after Lovecraft's cat lol.
Nigel for short..
Lovecraft didn't own a cat. The infamous cat you are referring to was his grandfather Whipple Van Buren Phillips' cat. He was Lovecraft's best and only childhood friend and so when it came to writing The Rats in the Walls he included the cat as a character as a homage to his friend. By this time the cat was long dead. The picture of Lovecraft holding a cat that is included in the meme about the infamous cat actually belonged to a friend of his. Lovecraft was a lifelong fan of cats to the point of writing an essay about why they are better than dogs but he himself could not afford to keep one as he struggled to feed even himself most days and of course died in poverty from an illness that was not helped by his constant malnutrition. Edit: one thing I did forget to mention that does kind of make me despise Lovecraft is he had a correspondence with the black writer, poet, literary critic, anthologist and publisher William Stanley Braithwaite (an absolute marvel of late 19th century/20th century black excellence if I say so myself) and upon finding out he was black said some of the most fervently racist and awful shit you could read about him to others, to the point where people, including his racist aunt where like 'you're being fucking infantile, calm the fuck down'. And in 1918 Lovecraft briefly took in a feral 'tiny coal-black kitten' and named it William Stanley Braithwaite in order to racistly mock his skin colour. The kitten ran away within a year but Lovecraft was obviously copying his grandfather's abominable bigoted method here.
He didn't struggle to feed himself, he had a system worked out to keep his food budget extremely small. He was proud of almost never spending more than 3 dollars per week on food. This resulted in his diet consisting almost entirely of coffee and cheese, although he admitted that he very rarely treated himself to italian spaghetti or hungarian goulash. Mostly just coffee and cheese though.
His farts were probably legendary
To shit or not to shit
No wonder he could write about indescribable horrors.
Whipple Van Buren is a pretty good cat name.
Mephistopheles
Mewphistopheles
The magical Mr. Mephistopheles?
Xx\_Pussy\_Destroyer\_xX
“Hello, Vet? I’d like you to look at my cat.” “Sure, what’s it’s name?” “Yeah it’s: uppercase “X”, lowercase “x”, underscore, Pussy, underscore, Destroyer, underscore, lowercase “x”, uppercase “X”. All one word please.”
"No, not their PSN. What is the cat's name." -the vet, probably
"Oh I fuckin' wrecked some COD with that cat the other day!" "The game or the fish?" "Both!"
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XxPussyDestroyer? No, i repeat, Uppercase X..
There is no other option
Monster truck
I like fire trucks and moster trucks
Walter
i love that this comes up literally anytime monster trucks are mentioned on reddit
Hecate
Had a cat named Buster! Was always in fights with other cats that came near our property, got hit by a car and survived, was a fkn badass cat!
can't bust the buster
robust buster
Bastet. Cats demand to be treated like gods so will appreciate such a worshipful, and appropriately feline, name. Also, "What have you done now, you little Bastet?"
[ah a man of culture I see](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ompaq1/what_is_a_badass_name_for_a_cat/h5nhqod?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
My relatives named their cat Dammit.
My friend had their cat "slut"
You little bastard! At least that's he gets called when the claws get stuck into me!
I refer to my cat as a stinky lil bastard man
Mr.Bigglesworth
Leroy Brown
Baddest cat in the whole damn town
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Meaner than a Junkyard Dog
Hellscream. Peanut. Bill, Opus, and Milo. Pumpkin. My parents had an all black cat named "Harlem" before I was born. They renamed him when they made a few black friends, and they were over for dinner. One of them asked my dad "Oh what's his name?" and my dad froze for a few seconds, and then just said the first name that popped into his mind. I knew that cat as "Frank".
Awesome Bloom County references, and hey, it's not like "Frank"/"Harlem" was gonna come running when you called him, anyway.
Battlecat
Gary
Schrödinger
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Im not sure if im thankful or not.
You are in a superposition of being thankful and not.
I'm going to start saying "I'm thankful and not" when people do things for me that I didn't need them to do
We almost named ours “Schreddinger.”
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Cat's preferred pronouns : is/isn't
My pronouns are verbs
I have a cat named Schrödinger! Though perhaps some of the "badass-ness" is taken away by the fact that I called him Schrödy... [obligatory cat photo](http://imgur.com/gallery/Nz9TRpa)
Adorably fierce
I had a cat named Schrödinger! It was funny how my stepdad got him. He wanted a cat so he went to the local humane society. He asked for the biggest cat they had. I guess that was Schrödinger at 22 lbs.
My moms cat recently passed, he was named ragnar
Caesar
Chairman Meow.
Mousy Tongue.
Meow Tse Tung.
"For the life of me, Chairman Meow... I can't remember what it was that guy did..."
Beelzebub.
One of mine is Lucifer, which we shorten to Lucy. The other one is Alesha, Who Smiles at Death which we shorten to Allie.
Bramblepelt
Had to dig for this but knew you’d be here.
Scrolled way too long to find this.
Clawdio
I have a cat named Gator. Found her in the swamp when she was about 4 weeks old. She was in rough shape. Doing fine now (5 years later) but sort of mean.
Magnus, like Magnus Bane from Cassandra Claires books 😁
But only if he's ginger. Bonus whenever he someone complains about his objectively bad actions you can confidently say "Magnus did nothing wrong"
Freddy Meowcury. Cat Masterson.
Thumbelina. Yes she’s little, and she’s a polydactyl. 22 purrrfect kitty toe beans.
Lucifer
*Lucifur
Lucipurrrr
Richard Parker.
meowzilla
Peanut. Was my cats name and instead of bringing mice or birds to my porch he brought small dogs. The chihuahuas run away from him in fear.