zooland (was Re: places)
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 5:04 |
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In a message dated 04.11.2001 06:53:46 PM, hmiller@IO.COM writes:
>One time I tried to come up with names for countries based on their local
>wildlife, or animals that were in some way associated with the country,
>so for instance the former Zaïre (the country with the awkward current name
>"Democratic Republic of the Congo") was "Bonobo-land", and the US was
>"Eagle-land". But it wasn't easy to find appropriate names for many
>countries that way, and I eventually gave up the attempt.
>
::wry grin:: Brazil/Amazonia was "Sloth-land," right??? *gigglabyte*
Nice idea. Perhaps besides/instead of nation-states, ya could name certain
bio-regions after particular animals, eh?
czHANg always highly amused by Mr. Herman Miller's conlangs/concultures