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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > Another Age: I came, I saw, I started another Paradox Mega-LP
 
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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 C! Take on a real challenge!

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 We really need to know how to say "Rome must be destroyed" in Punic.

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 oh man we're hosed

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 BCC

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 CCC

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 A, E, Voluntia.

Celtic Britain! CELTIC BRITAIN!

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010

hashashash posted:

sweet, well your vote came up in the rolls so I guess we'll be getting medieval Galatia




also in general, if anyone has any decent ideas for Punic or Hebrew-based names for places, then let me know! Names for the places we have colonies -- Ireland, Britain, Gaul, Scandinavia etc. -- are probably all that's 100% necessary

I speak pretty decent Hebrew, I can pitch in. Hell, if anyone wants to suggest names in English, I can translate them (e.g., New City -> Qart-Hadasht). Otherwise I'll can look some things up on my own.

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010

By popular demand posted:

Feel free to replace 'Eir' with 'Qart' as you feel"

- "city on the Bridge"
Eir Al-Gesher or maybe just Eir Gesher

- "city in the North"
Tzfuna (oo type U) sounds cool to me and it also means obscured or hidden for extra cool points

- "city of stone"
Eir Even (eh type Es)

- "island-city"
Lev Ha'ee "Heart(center) of the island"

- "tin-land" / "tin-country"
Eretz Badil

- "copper-land"
Nekhosh'etit is a diminutive I just made for copper, so "copperite"?

- "land/country by the sea"
Yamit is an actual modern place name, lets ignore the politics though because it's a lovely name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamit

- "black country"
Eretz Sh'chor (ch like haram)

- "final city"
Qart Soufit/ Qart Ha'Soufit

E: Tangentially related: tin is one of the metals significant enough to be have purifying instructions when the Israelites "avenge themselves" on the Midianites, "Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead -everything that can withstand the fire— must be put through the fire, and it will be clean. " -Numbers 31:22-23

Beat me to the punch! I'd transliterate עִיר as Ir (pronounced like "ear"), but this feels like splitting hairs--we can derive the Punic word from Qart-Hadasht, "New City." Hadasht is a pretty clear cognate for "chadash," the Hebrew word for new, which leaves Qart as "city." Related to that, it seems that Punic grammar uses the noun-adjective order, like all the other Semitic languages. Also, Qart haSofit sounds fantastic.

On a completely different topic, an absolutely mad idea struck me as I was going to bed last night--use English for Roman names. Hear me out! A bunch of Romance language speakers invaded a land of of Germanic language speakers and then culturally melded with their subjects. Of course their languages would fuse into a new bastard language. And that actually happened in the OTL--it's called the Norman Conquest. Hell, by the time CK3 starts, this new Latin-Germanic mish-mash would have been evolving for almost as long as modern English. So why not use our Latin-Germanic mish-mash for this culture? Obviously you can have fun with it--maybe "thing" still means "assembly," for example--but using English as a base could make things easier.

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 Aw man, I was hoping we'd convert back to Judaism. :(

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 C. I want that Jewish run!

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 A! I want that Jewish run!

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 B

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 C, it makes the most sense.

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010

Valiantman posted:

It looks like C is the most faithful to the actual situation but I fear it will become even worse blob than the original Ottomans very fast.

So I'm sure you can make B work there. HRE the Elissid Empire just isn't.

B

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 B to shake up the blob. And because antipopes are always a fun time.

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
 C Thunderdrome for the Mandate!

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