Re: Country names

Isaac Penzev cazdy:

>> I don't think I missed anyone's ideas, but if I did let me know.
>
>Jeffrey, I still insist that pig must stand for Ukraine!
>~~~~~~Disappointed Yitzik from Ukraine~~~~~~
I thought you were kidding.  It's now on the page.  Sorry to be such a
swine. :-)



Markus Miekk-oja wrote:

>If authonomical areas (Greenland, Faeroes) are included
While this started out as an exercise in country names, it's broadened
to geographical regions, and I've included all regions suggested.



taliesin the storyteller wrote:

>Does it have to be animals? The very best word for Lebanon would be
something
>like "Land of the cedars"
Yes, I'm confining this exercise to animals.



Stone Gordonssen wrote:

>1. others besides me had listed Florida, Maine & Kentucky.
>2. the dodo (extinct) was suggested by someone for Mauritius.
By me in my original list.

>3. the dragon (mythical) was suggested by someone for China.
>So, Jeffrey: mythical? extinct? nations? land masses? geologically
homogenous
>regions?
Mythical is fine.  We have Pegasus and a wing of dragons.

Extinct is fine.  Who can forget the cautionary lesson of the dodo?  (My
kids love the dodoes in the movie _Ice Age_: "Doom on you!", the dodo
motto, is now a catchphrase in our house.  "Clean up your room, or doom
on you!")  OK, that inspired me to add mammoth to Siberia.

Nations, land masses, regions -- anything is fair game.  I'll take any
division of the Earth recognized by someone for some reason.  We even
have the majority of the continents in the list:

Antarctica - emperor penguin
Arctic - polar bear
Australia (a country and a continent) - kangaroo, koala
South America - llama

Leaving:
Asia
Europe
North America



Carlos Thompson wrote:

>Well, on the discussion on how specific an animal should be, I guess
this
>should also depend on the perspective of the Novvocu people, which
animals
>are common where they live and how important for them is making a
>distinction.
Actually, I've broadened this into being a resource for anyone seeking
to name geographical regions using animals.  So the list is a source of
ideas.  Once all the countries have ideas, then I'll go through and pick
my personal preferences for each.


>How about for a Novvocu speaker?
Novvocu is my personal loglang, so it doesn't have a conculture.  If its
my idiolect, does that mean it has an idioculture?


Anyway, all of the edits so far are now up at:
http://www.langmaker.com/countrynames.htm

I cleaned up the formatting and the animal index, though I still have
some work to do.


Best regards,

Jeffrey

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