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[Book Nerd Humour] Let’s Use Slate’s Travoltify Your Name Generator on Some Dead Writers

Posted on March 4, 2014 by maedez

TRAVOLTIFY YOUR NAME

CHARLES DICKENS=CARYS DORNIELS
VIRGINIA WOOLF=VICTOR WHAYTE
JANE AUSTEN=JOE ALLORN
LEO TOLSTOY=LUKE TAYZLOR
KATHERINE MANSFIELD=KRISTOPHER MCEEZALD
JACK KEROUAC=JIA KEENEEDIA
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD=F. STUART FERZGUSON
ZELDA FITZGERALD=ZARA FERZGUSON
GEORGE ELIOT=GRACE EDJANS
ERNEST HEMINGWAY=ELLIOT HARGISION
ANNE BRONTË=AVA BORFES
CHARLOTTE BRONTË=COLE BORFES
EMILY BRONTË=ELIJAH BORFES

What does this alternate world look like?

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Thanks to Vickie Lester for letting me know about the Travoltify Your Name generator!

8 thoughts on “[Book Nerd Humour] Let’s Use Slate’s Travoltify Your Name Generator on Some Dead Writers”

Vickie Lester on March 4, 2014 at 11:58 am said:

LOVE! JIA KEENEEDIA 😉

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- maedez on March 4, 2014 at 12:01 pm said:
  
  Ha, I know! These are hilarious. I had to stop myself from doing more. 🙂
  
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Erich Rupprecht on March 4, 2014 at 12:33 pm said:

Funny idea. I love that new word, “Travoltify.” It’s crazy how quickly these things spread these days.

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- maedez on March 4, 2014 at 12:40 pm said:
  
  Yeah, it doesn’t take long for things to spread in the Internet age. It was fun using it on dead writers, though.
  
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- Ensis on March 4, 2014 at 1:31 pm said:
  
  Funfact: These are called “neologisms.”
  
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  - maedez on March 5, 2014 at 2:22 pm said:
    
    Travoltify is, indeed, a neologism (albeit one I don’t see hanging around for too long).
    
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silverscreenings on March 4, 2014 at 9:23 pm said:

I almost spewed my tea all over my laptop! I LOVE that the Brontes are Borfes! Brilliant!

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- maedez on March 5, 2014 at 2:19 pm said:
  
  That cracked me up, too. The Borfes Sisters just sounds hilarious.
  
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