Re: CHAT: Place names (was: Pascua)

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Yes, it sometimes sounds unimaginative, but it's how places are named
>(unless the founders are poets or conlangers, I guess). I recently
>named some towns in Thaqulm and I had to stop and think... I came up
>with the following:
I plan to have some imaginative, as well as boring and mundane names for
the different towns and villages. They can't all be wonderfully
fantasticallynamed (well, they can, i just think it makes it more "real")
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>I love those long Spanish names! The typical Argentine town was
>named things like "San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca" or "Santa
>Fe de la Vera Cruz de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo" (though more, er,
>profane names exist, like towns called "Small Beer Pack" and "Large
>Beer Pack" (I swear I'm not making this up!).
My favorite is the original name for the City of Los Angeles, here in
California:

"El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora, Reyna de Los Angeles de Porciuncula"(if I
have it right)

There are some interesting English names for towns in California. One
really interesting one was called "Hells Gate". Appropriately, it's near
the border of Nevada.  California also has:

Rough and Ready
Boot Jack
Fair Play
Holy City
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Most towns were named after their founders (Castroville), or for another
place (Cambria, which is anice coastal town), or the name was just pretty
or poetic, or evokes a certain image "Pleasanton".

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