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Quorum posted:This is way, way down on the list of things that make Xanth objectionable, but it seriously bugs me that the magic parody counterpart to Cape Canaveral/KSC is the Isle of Illusion. The real issue to me is that Disney World doesn't have a fantasy counterpart.
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 A Buttery Pastry posted:I don't know anything about Xanth, but it seems appropriate that a place named the Isle of Illusion would be the fantasy counterpart to where the lunar mission started.
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Antigravitas posted:lmao, that reminds me of Who tf are the dudes in the east calling it a chocolatine
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Guavanaut posted:So what happened to Gotland? Island people.
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Guavanaut posted:So what happened to Gotland? The correlation is not to radiation itself but to mutants. While Gotlanders may not have gotten much fallout, they do have a lot of inbreeding.
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(non-American) Portland isn't a port? Huh I always thought it was on the sea.
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DarkCrawler posted:(non-American) Portland isn't a port? Huh I always thought it was on the sea. It's a river port, like London.
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It got the name because one of the initial white dudes to own the land was from Maine, whose capital is a Portland that is, in fact, a port
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DarkCrawler posted:(non-American) Portland isn't a port? Huh I always thought it was on the sea. It's got a fairly substantial river but it was named after Portland Maine, which is a port. It was going to be either Portland or Boston and was decided by a coin toss.
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the real damage potential here is the violence done to my eyes by the color code.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It got the name because one of the initial white dudes to own the land was from Maine, whose capital is a Portland that is, in fact, a port And in turn, that Portland is named after a Portland in England! Our shameless-copy names have generations and family trees. The same thing happened with Richmond (California, Virginia, England).
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Isn't California named after a fictional island from some novel that was popular at the time? Kinda like if it was 'discovered' in 2018 it would've been called Westeros or Wakanda.
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Man if I could name a place I'd go with something original. Like 90% of them are just named after some guy or some place that already loving exists. At least go with a fictional place.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Isn't California named after a fictional island from some novel that was popular at the time? Yep. Etymology: Probably Spanish after California, a Utopian island of the Amazons described in Las sergas de Esplandián, a 16th-century Spanish novel. The name comes from the fictional island's Muslim-allied queen, Calafia, whose name is a play on Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”).
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FreudianSlippers posted:Isn't California named after a fictional island from some novel that was popular at the time? Yes, and also the name shares a root with “caliphate”.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Isn't California named after a fictional island from some novel that was popular at the time? It would be Wakanda. 110%. I don't know how popular was the book at the time, but is mentioned in The Quixote, as one of the books the nerdy friends of Quixote check when deciding to burn or to rescue.
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Platystemon posted:Yes, and also the name shares a root with “caliphate”. There’s got to be a length of red thread on Glenn Beck’s crazy wall about that.
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DarkCrawler posted:Man if I could name a place I'd go with something original. Like 90% of them are just named after some guy or some place that already loving exists. At least go with a fictional place. I love my city, Rochester NY. Founded by a dude named Nathaniel Rochester, he called it Rochesterville like he was starting a Geocities-based BBS chat for his friends. Later gets shortened to Rochester. ...which, is where Nathaniel Rochester's name came from in the first place. Rochester, Kent, England. So there's this dumb little etymological backstory that basically boils down to "yeah Rochester NY is named after Rochester in England" but with steps added.
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Quorum posted:And in turn, that Portland is named after a Portland in England! Our shameless-copy names have generations and family trees. The same thing happened with Richmond (California, Virginia, England). Let us not forget that Maine itself is a region of France, southwest of Normandy Brawnfire posted:I love my city, Rochester NY. Founded by a dude named Nathaniel Rochester, he called it Rochesterville like he was starting a Geocities-based BBS chat for his friends. Later gets shortened to Rochester. Best of the upstate cities. Syracuse is alright, let's not talk about Buffalo. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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Rebel Blob posted:Where are the toilets? 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Let us not forget that Maine itself is a region of France, southwest of Normandy Good night, you Counts of Maine! quote:Best of the upstate cities. Syracuse is alright, let's not talk about Buffalo. I'll talk about Big Ditch Brewing, but yeah we'll stop there
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already a few pages back but aren't both warewolves and vampires things from PIE mythology? So basically all of Indo-European speaking europe should have some version of them.
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I think the map is based on vibes rather than like, ethnographic/historical research
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 Vasukhani posted:already a few pages back but aren't both warewolves and vampires things from PIE mythology? So basically all of Indo-European speaking europe should have some version of them. Sorta depends on what you think is the defining characteristics of vampires. Is drinking blood more important than being undead? Do they need to be the actual corpse or can they be spirits? Do demonic beings count? Is a witch that breaks into your house and steals your blood for a potion a vampire? Is a vengeful immobile blood golem a vampire? Is an elf that sits on your chest and drinks your blood causing nightmares a vampire? Or a fairy maiden that serves as a muse to great artists while draining their lifeforce ensuring that they die young? If yes then the folklore of Europe is absolutely infested with vampires. Vampires as we know them (blood drinking undead) are primarily a southern Slavic phenomenon emerging sometime in the early modern period and becoming known in the west following several well publicised outbreaks of vampire mania in several Baltic villages in the late 18th century but there's similar creatures both much earlier and all over the world. There are some precursors all over Europe such as the Greek Vrykolakas in the 17th century, the Spectrum in 16th century Silesia, the Norse Draugr from the viking age and onward, and the English Revenant of the 13th century. All are malign corporeal undead often with some less-corporeal abilities such as shapeshifting and the ability to turn invisible and all of them are at least partially contagious with their curse passing on to their victims. There's also archeological evidence of corpse mutilation going back to antiquity that might've been done to prevent the corpse from rising and some early medieval references to such practises and laws prohibiting such things. However blood drinking isn't really a factor outside of Yugoslavia. Sort of. The English revenants are compared to leeches engorged with blood but no direct mention is made to them actually drinking blood and I'm fairly certain I once came across a reference to a blood drinking draugr in the Icelandic annals but I failed to make proper notes and have been unable to find it again. You can also find weird stuff like the German Nachzehrer which is a corpse that gnaws on its own shroud which by some magical means allows them to drain the lifeforce of their surviving relatives without ever actually leaving their graves. Blood drinking, or at least blood stealing, witches appear in folklore much earlier and some cultures, such as Russia, never really differentiated witches and vampires as their function was essentially a same. All witches are cursed to rise from their grave and after that they largely continue to do the same stuff they did in life so why treat them any differently? There's also a whole bunch of blood drinking fairies in Ireland and Scotland. As well as the old Irish legend of Abhartach, which may have been just as much of an inspiration for Dracula as Vlad Tepes. In which a tyrannical chieftain with dwarfism oppresses his subjects until he is killed by a hero only to return from the dead and begins to demand a tax of human blood. He is killed over and over again returning each time until, on the advice of a druid, the hero kills the cruel dwarf with a wooden sword and buries him upside down. And that's not getting into all the various of types of Asian vampires which are a nightmare to find any good sources on in English. Tl:dr: Yes
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Mr. Van Helsing over here
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I feel like people talk a lot about how the Mercator projection makes Europe look disproportionately large, but I never hear people talk about how Italy's variant of the Conic* projection makes Italy look disproportionately large: *I can't figure out exactly what projection that is. Saladman fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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Vasukhani posted:already a few pages back but aren't both warewolves and vampires things from PIE mythology? So basically all of Indo-European speaking europe should have some version of them. That depends if you think a hamburger and moussaka are basically the same thing.
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Quorum posted:And in turn, that Portland is named after a Portland in England! Our shameless-copy names have generations and family trees. The same thing happened with Richmond (California, Virginia, England). I wonder why humans are always so shittily unorigincal in naming cities. The Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans were just as generic at it.
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I think it would have to do with the idea that the names that are most 'resonant' with a community are ones where meanings are broad, concrete, and accessible?
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DarkCrawler posted:Mr. Van Helsing over here That's Dr. Van Helsing to you.
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Pope Hilarius II posted:I wonder why humans are always so shittily unorigincal in naming cities. The Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans were just as generic at it. There are two types of placenames: boring as poo poo unimaginative names, and names that have been used for so long that we forgot what they mean. Case in point: Transylvania. Literally just "beyond the forest", but a lot of people don't know and think it sounds cool. Common ideas for names: geographical features, people/religious names, commercial function. Anyway, I saw this in a store and figured y'all would hate it: 
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Yes, thanks, I hate it.
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I kinda like it. Roll and see where the party has to travel on their latest quest.
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AD2300 used that "projection" in all their worldmaps.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2300_AD
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