Re: Vocab. Exercise: Name that kingdom!

Quoting Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...>:

> Hi,
>
>         I'm on a short holiday, and so I've got time to waste. And one
> of the things that came up for that was to prepare yet another
> conworld
> for a quick RPG campaign. This conworld grew from the idea of the
> "Secret Wars", of comic fame: several different peoples and lands are
> brought together into a continent of some lost world, and forced to
> cohabitate - or fight. Yes, it's not a very plausible thing, but
> remember: it's only for fun :-)
>
>         But now, there's one thing that I'd like to do: give names to
> each of these kingdoms. I thought that it would be cool to have every
> kingdom to be named in a different conlang, so I started searching on
> the Internet. But then I thought: "Hey, why are you doing this if
> maybe
> the always kind and helpful people of CONLANG would do it for you?"
> };-)
>
>         Take it as a vocabulary exercise: I tell you a bit about every
> kingdom and its inhabitants, and you devise a name for them in your
> conlang(s). I'll post the "winners" a bit after, and also a map
> showing
> the kingdoms; by now, the "unnamed" map is here:
>
>         http://retrincos.net/img/kingdom_map.png
>
>         Don't be too picky with the drawing of kingdom limits, I know
> it's quite rough and unprecise O:-)
>
>         Here's the list:
[snip]
>         - Orcs:
>
>         What to say about them? :-) These are quite common orcs, being
> cruel, lovers or random destruction and mayhem, absolutely unable to
> be
> disciplined unless by force, and not very bright. They live in a dark
> and dangerous jungle, quite prehistoric in fauna and flora, organized
> in
> small clans (to which they are very loyal) that fight each other to
> defend or conquest new lands, and their neighbors for that or any
> other
> reason. The are hunter-gatherers, knowing anything about agriculture
> ("Ha! Those plant-growing weenies!").
[snip]
>         This is it. Any takers? :-)
I couldn't resist devicing an unpoetical Yargish name for the Orcs' dominion;
U-Ghurd U-Najandiz-ung [M'GMrd Mna'dZandizMN], which means "The Land of the
Clans". I'd love to see what distortions of this other races' languages might
end up with, not to mention how anglophones will butcher it.

                                                     Andreas