Whats in a name?

[Paranoid schizo]

Finally.....There's some weird and wonderful names out there. Meteorola put the idea in my head a while back. So how did you choose your name?

 

I used to work in a mental health unit and Paranoid Schizophrenics were absolutley fascinating. Not in a sick way, just that they were all very ill and really didn't know it. There was no real treatment, just lots of reassurance and engaging in conversation and building up trust. That was where I first heard the name.

 

When it came to choosing a name in NS, I liked the thought of having a country that didn't like others, didn't trust anyone and thought that it wasn't alone.

 

I pictured a line of troops at a border utterly convinced that they had a load of other troops behind them, and those imaginary troops being convinced in the first lot of minds that they had someone behind them...etc...etc. And ALL of them being just as convinced that everyone was out to get them!! Just made me smile.

 

So come on you lot....spill the beans!!!!

[Tagmatium Rules]

I wanted one with a Byzantine theme, but all the ones I tried had been already used, so I was looking at the Byzantine on Encarta, and came across for the name for their army, the 'Tagmata'. I changed this to 'Tagmatium', and there we go.

[Meteorola]

I'm a Meteorolgist. I subtracted the -gist and put an 'a' on the end.

 

Wham. Meteorola (pronouced as Pot so well said, a butchers cell phone).

 

All my city names are weather related, even if some of them are technical. As far as RP goes, the parliment is the Council of the Weathered Isles and it meets in the World Weather Building. Hurricane = Prime Minister, making me Hurricane Eric. The theme continues through all of the names I have and I will give out.

[Argenland]

Well, I want make a country with Argentina's relation. And I choose Argenland (land of argentinians).

[Haken]

(Haken Rider is my nation name in Europe, I use Haken for forums)

 

My name is Hannes.

 

In Dutch we call a small 'h' a haken (H and h are pronounced as ha or hash, but if you want to make something small you can add 'ken).

 

My last name is De Ridder (=knight).

 

A "ridder" got his name from the German term, which just means rider.

 

Now if that didn't confuse you...

Edited November 22, 2005 by Haken (see edit history)

[Orioni]

Ahem... This will probably sound stupid: Orion was already taken by a former nation, so there was no chance in using that name. Orion is a nickname I use on several other forums and in my primary e-mailaddress.

 

So, with Orion taken, I just tried some names that resembled it the most.

Oriono? No.

Orionu? No.

Orione? No.

Oriona? No.

Orioni? Hmm, sounds rather good. And not taken yet.

 

Playing with Orioni was fun, but I wanted a second nation to explore the evil options in NS. This became Orioni 2. You all know what happened to Orioni, and why Orioni 2 is the delegate now.

[Byzantium Nova]

Another Byzantine theme here. With latin sidenote. Like the early Byzantine empire (Time of Justinian). Basically (and obviously) my nations name translates as "New Byzantium"

[Niederoestereich]

Well if im right, Niederoesterreich is some province in Austria

I wanted a Germanic theme type thing going, so i subjected an "r" to

get Niederoestereich, Pretty boring really

 

And the name Kant, if you had not noticed, came from Immanuel Kant

[Wild Frontier]

My name comes from one of my favourite songs -- My Wild Frontier by Faith Hill.

[Tamurin]

My name comes from a country I once invented for a roleplaying game...well, it just sounded good...was one of my two-per-months good names...

[ellezelles]

my name just comes from the town i lived in the last, still for the moment

[Nick Callan]

My middle name is Callan

[Chairman Joaquin]

once while visiting San Sebastian, in the basque lands, I saw this flier for a Basque-nationalist punk rock concert. I took it home with me and a few months later when I stumbled upon NS, I chose Ekainak, the name of the street where the local is situated. That county is dead, the mods deleted it. so there...

[Senator Gaius]

As my nation began as a Republic, and i have an interest in the old Roman Republic, i called myself Senator Gaius. Gaius evantually became my leader.

 

As for the country, i find the medieval Duchy of Burgundy fascinating, and as the Burgundian dukes for a while ruled Brabant in Flanders, i just combined the two. TARRRRRRRRROOOOOOCAAAAAA!

[Koku]

Well,.. nothing complicate about the name Koku...

I just derived it from Goku, a hero in a Japanese cartoon..Dragon Ball.

The cartoon was very famous in Japan and South Easet Asia.. It has been made ; commic book, TV cartoon, and even Game Boy Advance, play station, etc.

Another thing is that the word "Koku" is, I believe, an ancient Japanese currency... Just that!

 

[Karpathos]

Karpathos is the island where I come from in Greece, fairly unknown to the RL world, extremely notorious in the NS world (Anyone on the NS world scene knows why )

[Mongol-Swedes]

Part Mongolian, Part Swedish, so, I chose Mongol-Swedes, and everyone else on the RL 'tribunal' I organized just kinda agreed.

[Phil VII]

well, my name is Phil, and as i was making a kingdom when i made my nation, i thought i should add a couple of roman numerals on the end, so i became Phil IV, who has sonce died and been replaced by his son Phil V (my monerchy seems to be a little unimaginiative when it comes to male sons...)

[Amnalos]

I just made it up. Thought it sounded cool.

[Stoned Smurfs]

well my first nation was Green Acrez because im a pothead plus i never planned to play this game again after i got my UN status taken from me when i had two UN nations and one was the delegate, even though my two nations were the ONLY FREAKIN nations there. but that was before invading and when the three game mods we had were bored and didnt have sh*t to do i guess. i then made this one up because i was high and was wanting to talk to a friend after i let my other nations die so i had to make a new one in order to do that and my wall paper at the time was the 'Stoner Smurf' pic i had for my ava a while back, so wala, Stoned Smurfs was born. i never planned to keep this nation, so thats why its a kinda goofy name. thankfully when Max made it possible for us to make our own naiton (insert whatever the word is for the first part of your nations name here), i choose Stoner Sanctuary of Stoned Smurfs and then went by the S.S.S.S.

 

 

man, when im stoned i talk alot huh?

 

[Odary]

I wanted something that sounded like the name of my home town, Odessa. It was already taken, so I thought of the endings to some balkan nations and decided to use ary from 'Hungary'.

[Empire Francais]

I pity the fool who needs an explanation of my country's name

[Nevareion]

I pity the fool

Mr.T?! Is that you?

[Meteorola]

Mr. T, the King of Bling!

[Vanarambaion]

Vanarambaion is my name in - wow this is going to sound dorky - High Elvish. You know, like Tolkein...yeah. High Elvish. I used it because it at the same time sounds tame and fierce depending on how you play it. It doesn't give anyone a real first impression, based on the name.