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Jan 10, 2017 6:34:41 GMT @upupaway95 said:

Jan 10, 2017 0:37:32 GMT shechinah said:

3. Military pilots traditionally give each other call signs, so that's the spirit I took James' nicknaming of people in.  In fact, I chose to give my Shepards call signs (some after actual call signs of pilots I've heard of or even known) rather than first names right from the first one I created in ME1.  2. The first Shepard I've given an actual first name was "Vance" (the playthrough I just did a couple of months ago and reported on the "What did you do today" thread.

I do agree though, James' use of an actual substitute first name seems out of place with that practice.  1. Although derogatory call signs aren't uncommon, I don't think I would like "loca" either...  doesn't it mean "whore?"

1. No, loca is just the feminine form of loco which means crazy. You're thinking of puta or puto which is what means prostitute or whore. Puta is sometimes used in a different context to mean something different although also as basically a swear equivalent to fuck and puto is usually exchanged with prostituto because, I think, it has a lot of other meanings. The feminine form of prostituto would be prostituta, if my memory serves me right.

A key element about the spanish language is that it has a masculine and feminine form for words where in other languages such as english there'd only be one version. Every noun, sans exceptions and more in-depth explainations, in the spanish language are either masculine or feminine.

Example: Niño is the masculine form for child while Niña is the feminine form. Niños is the plural form for a group of the children that are male or are a blend of male and female children. Niñas is the plural form for a group of children that are female.

I should note that this does not mean what the word is referring to is considered female or male.

Example: Casa, basically meaning house, is feminine but the house itself is not considered to be of a gender.  

2. I tend to name my Shepards after people because I started a trend with myself with my first Shepard. She was named Isaac after Isaac Asimov. The second one was named Mozart after, well, Mozart, and another was named Jhon after J'onn Jones, the Martian Manhunter. The last's name is a bit different from its inspiration since I could not remember how it was spelled so I spelled it phoentically according to my memory of its pronounciation.

I had some fun thinking about in-universe explainations for their names. Isaac was named after Isaac Asimov because her parents were big fans and thought it was a good name. Mozart Shepard was Earthborn and did not know that Mozart was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's surname, not his first name. Jhon might have been same case as Isaac in that one or both of his parents liked the Martian Manhunter. That or it is a good Mindoiran name.

3. Oh, I love call signs and nicknames for characters. I like a lot of those you get in SWTOR such as the class one granted by the respective faction for space missions.