Why do all creatures have the same names everywhere?

It makes sense for areas that are close by/related. I.e the Core Region and the Mojave or the Commonwealth and the Capital Wasteland, but yeah cross-continent names don't make a huge amount of sense. I suppose you could argue the names are coincidence, but I don't really buy that since the term "Brahmin" is pretty specific to the NCR/Aradesh and his Hinduism.

As for the differing designs of Mirelurks, I'm 90% certain the new designs of Mirelurks have overwritten/retconned the old ones and if we were to return to the Capital Wasteland in Fallout 4, we would not see the old designs.
 
I have an explanation. A lot of people think the idea of the BoS or, really, anything else hopping from one coast to the other is really damn stupid. The thing is, it's not unheard of. Anyone remember the Silk Road.

The explanation I have is that during trade, the West Coast/East Coast people learned about the other's flora and fauna and what they were called. If and when they showed up on the opposite coast, they already had a name.
 
Ben Soto said:
I have an explanation. A lot of people think the idea of the BoS or, really, anything else hopping from one coast to the other is really damn stupid. The thing is, it's not unheard of. Anyone remember the Silk Road.
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We've never heard of a valuable commodity like silk on the East Coast, nor have we seen any West or East Coast pilgrim traders. The East Coast BoS were created due to circumstance, not because they went out for trade.
 
Ben Soto said:
I have an explanation. A lot of people think the idea of the BoS or, really, anything else hopping from one coast to the other is really damn stupid. The thing is, it's not unheard of. Anyone remember the Silk Road?
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Did the silk road have radiation everywhere, mutated monsters everywhere, and giant radioactive twisters?
 
R.Graves said:
The big question is why everything that lives in shallow water is called a mirelurk.
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Yeah. I'm like in the opposite camp on this. I mean, proposing there's camps on subjects relating to this embarrassing video game--oh god, what am I doing with my life?

I actually think the name is terrible, it gratingly sounds like the name of a creature from a fantasy rpg, not sci-fi; but I liked the answer behind it better: that colloquially people just call every hostile monstrosity that comes out of the water the same general thing, a generic term slightly more specific "monster". Makes sense, I guess--civilisation hasn't really bounced back, the most important thing is to run from things that will kill you, not apply to the Institute to study 23rd century marine biology. That's Fallout 5.
 
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