/lit/ - Literature

>>18794517
>tfw middle name is unironically Au

>>18794517
>>your surname
>>add -ism to it
Meh, it's okay I guess

>>18794517
That level of cope. Yea, your name is to blame that you never made something of worth, exactly...your name...not your unspeakable amount of incompetence.

Lmaoism sounds good to me

>surname ends in the letter i
It never even began

>>18794517
Idk man, if I add an -e at the end, like in French, it sounds pretty good

problems that i never knew that i hadn`t.
nice.

>>18794517
>Kennedyism
Sounds like shit

>>18794517
>Spurdoism

>>18794517
You might can get by with an -an i.e. Nietzschean

>name ends in -e
Great so many Humeists and Lockeists out there
and Sade just strait dropped that
and i'm not even french where it would be silent atleast

To be fair, they sometimes called a school of philosophy by the name of where it was taught, like the Stoics because it was taught under a specific stoa/portico.
So they could call your philosophy basementism.

>>18794517
>Racism
Uh...

>>18794517
>your surname
>add -ism to it
haha very funny

>>18794573
There is extensive research suggesting that your name has enormous impact on how people perceive you. If your name is something like Geoffrey Twinklebutt you're going to have a much harder time than if your name were something like Max Power

>name already ends with an "is"
>simply add an "m" or "t" to it

You'll all be davist's one day.

>>18795144
I don't care, there is research for everything. Of course they will laugh when they hear the name Twinklebutt for the first time (that's an extreme case btw) but it doesn't stop you from achieving what you want/can. Names signify nothing, if you made something of worth and your name is really THAT shit, people will make up something, they will abbreviate it or do something similar. Same for foreign names no one can pronounce. You can just choose a pen/artist name and stick with it, no one cares.

>>18794915
>Kennedyism
Kennedism

>>18794517
>Gellarism
>Gellarist
I don't know anon, I think it sounds pretty awesome. Maybe I should start a cult.

>>18794926
And if you're really desperate there's still the hope of adding "esque" to the end.

>>18796892
Juden raus

Do first name like Thomism

>>18795144

Edenism
Edenists

>>18794517
>tfw last name is way too long to add an -ism to the end of it

>you'll never amount to anything in philosophy because they won't even have a name for your small school of followers
You're looking for ego, status, legacy, or something of the like. You don't really want to contribute to society.

>>18798210
Sounds like a doomsday cult lmao

>tfw last name already has several isms attached to it
Hasn't been a problem since the 1600s except the treason charges

>>18796099
>it doesn't stop you from achieving what you want/can.
Well yeah nothing stops you in theory, you can suck cocks or poison people's drinks and achieve your goal anyway. What the fuck does that mean? It's an obstacle. Do you think pseudonyms are only about privacy or de-identification? There are multiple accounts of successful artists who chose a different name explicitly so it would be more impressive, but it's not like you can go by with pseudonyms in every context.

>my surname is Race

>>18798496
>my surname is Naz

>Johnsonian
>Johnsonism

Not great, not terrible.

Tfw my name is extremely hard to pronounce and spell for people outside my country
I was destined for failure even before being born

>>18794536
Sounds cool anon. Like a roman emperor

>Wachtmeisterism

Hmm... Maybe not all hope is lost after all

>>18794517
Walshism sounds like a proto-protestant sect from 1160, i hate it

>>18794517
use a pseudonym

>>18794517
>Abraham
>Abrahamism
I'm going to make it, bros

>>18798821
You're going to make it into the oven when this guy >>18798499 gathers his followers and starts gasing kikes

>>18794517
>Paulism
Sounds based

Cockistadorism

>>18794517
Zorzanism or Zorzanoism sounds kinda cool.

Either way, you're doing a fantastic job at datamining anons' surnames, glowie, keep up the good work.

>>18794517
>Gayism
fuck

>>18794517
>Autism

Girderhillism
It works, kind of.

>>18799126
aut isn't a surname. fuck you you retarded memer

>data mining threadism
Aint so bad

>>18799126
You aut to get a different name
har har

>>18794517
Smithism

>>18795144
golden bit of the simpsons

>>18794517
>tfw arab with multiple "surnames" to choose from
Hell yeah, I could my tribe's name, or my great-great-grandfather's name, or my great-grandfather's name, or my grand-father's name, or my father's name.

>>18794517
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Smithism

So use another name faggot.

>Be white, Catholic
>Have anglo last name
>Sounds Jewish
o-ok

>>18794945
>who is Sade
just remove the damn letter you goddamn smooth brained hairless monkey

>>18794517
Are there any rules for names becoming adjectives or is it just whatever catches on?
>-an (Kristev[a])
>-ean (Blak[e], Derrida, Goeth[e], Joyc[e], Nietzsch[e], Shakespear[e], Wild[e])
>-esque (Kafka, Pinter, Vonnegut, Zola, sometimes Pynchon)
>-ian (Augustin[e], Austen, Beckett, Brecht, Chaucer, Darwin, Deleuze, [Des]cartes, Dickens, Flaubert, Freud, Hegel, Heidegger, James, Jonson, Jung, Kant, Keats, Kierkegaard, Machiavell[i], Orwell, Pelag[ius], Pynchon, Rabelais, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Virgil, Wordsworth, Yeats, etc.)
>-ic (Byron, Eliot, Homer, Hermes [Hermetic], Milton, Plato[n])
>-ist (Thom[as Aquinas], Lenin, Marx, Mao, occasionally Hitler)
>-ite (Blair, Reagan, Thatcher, Trotsky)
From these examples I posit a few rough patterns:
>names ending in -a just tend to add an -n, except for Derrida which takes -ean, and Kafka
>names ending in -e tend to add -an
>-esque is used generally for memes
>if in doubt, use -ian
>-ic sometimes used for names with an “i” followed by “o” vowel or ending with n
>-ist and -ite are often used more in political circles, the former often expressing an extreme view or fanatical/religious obsession from followers, the latter a negative view of the person’s influence

Are there any rules for names becoming adjectives or is it just whatever catches on?
>-an (Kristev[a])
>-ean (Aristotl[e], Blak[e], Derrida, Goeth[e], Joyc[e], Nietzsch[e], Shakespear[e], Wild[e])
>-esque (Kafka, Pinter, Vonnegut, Zola, sometimes Pynchon)
>-ian (Augustin[e], Austen, Beckett, Brecht, Chaucer, Darwin, Deleuze, [Des]cartes, Dickens, Flaubert, Freud, Hegel, Heidegger, James, Jonson, Jung, Kant, Keats, Kierkegaard, Machiavell[i], Orwell, Pelag[ius], Pynchon, Rabelais, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Swift, Tertull[ius], Virgil, Wordsworth, Yeats, etc.)
>-ic (Byron, Eliot, Homer, Hermes [Hermetic], Milton, Plato[n])
>-ist (Thom[as Aquinas], Lenin, Marx, Mao, occasionally Hitler)
>-ite (Blair, Reagan, Thatcher, Trotsky)
From these examples I posit a few rough patterns:
>names ending in -a just tend to add an -n, except for Derrida which takes -ean, and Kafka
>names ending in -e tend to add -an
>-esque is used generally for memes
>if in doubt, use -ian
>-ic sometimes used for names with an “i” followed by “o” vowel or ending with n
>-ist and -ite are often used more in political circles, the former often expressing an extreme view or fanatical/religious obsession from followers, the latter a negative view of the person’s influence

i prefer -anity

just change your name

>>18794517
Just use a pen name, bro.

>>18794517
You don't have it truly bad until your name ends on -ski. Oh god.