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Row 7: The Walker

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Walker-names

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You are following the Slow Read, which begins with the Prologue on Saturday 10 October and reads a chapter a week. Read ahead? Choose the last chapter you have finished. The site hides anything from a chapter you have not reached; this is proof of reading, never of buying, and a library copy counts.

A crew gives a member a name for what they do, never for how they look.

Walker-names are built like any Somka word: a root for what the person does, often with -nu. Someone who always counts might be tatak; someone who mends things, remnu; someone who keeps the map, rara.

A walker-name is given, not taken. Your crew decides it; this lesson only teaches you how one is built, so you can give a good one.

Try it

  1. Read this walker-name.
  2. Think of someone you study with. Build them a walker-name for something they do. Nobody marks this.

    Nobody marks this.