30-01-2005 01:39									#1
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Okay, I think the consensus is to have everyone pick the name rather than the team captains. So... here it is! I only took the top 4 choices.

	30-01-2005 01:45									#2
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Eve of Destruction is my vote.

Clash of Titans has already been used for a PBEM game that several of us are involved in.

	30-01-2005 02:48									#3
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I still like Pangea Eruptus.

	30-01-2005 13:54									#4
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Pangea Eruptus is my choice too

	30-01-2005 20:28									#5
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Tough choice. Either of the first two is fine by me. I voted for Pangaea Eruptus.

	31-01-2005 21:35									#6
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Bring on the Eve of Your Destruction

blood oath we will

	01-02-2005 01:31									#7
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Hey!! What happened to my "Why can't we all just get along" suggestion

	01-02-2005 02:18									#8
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quote: Originally posted by bongo Hey!! What happened to my "Why can't we all just get along" suggestion

Unfortunately, we all CAN'T get along. Isn't that obvious?

	01-02-2005 02:36									#9
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Eve of destruction, what else ...

	01-02-2005 14:17									#10
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C3CDG: Pangea Eruptus

and we will use your civ to stop the flow...muwaaaa

	02-02-2005 19:28									#11
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it's nitpicking, but still...
"pangea eruptus" is wrong in three ways.

1) pangea is a greek word, eruptus would be latin.
2) if pangea is used, it should at least be pangea erupta (female form)
3) (not sure if i'm right about the one) wouldn't it be pangaea? ("pan" from "overall" and "gaea" for "earth"/"world"

i know... i'm a smartarse...

	02-02-2005 19:29									#12
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but as "eve of destruction" has won, my comment was utterly irrelevant

	02-02-2005 22:51									#13
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Looks like PE is winning. That's my vote. EoD is fine but I HATE that song.

PE is my vote.

	02-02-2005 22:53									#14
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OK.
PE but correct it as requested by sabrewolf. Unless there was some very subtle humor that I missed, then the errors are actually pure genius!

	03-02-2005 01:07									#15
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"Bob" !

	03-02-2005 01:11									#16
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Give it a rest BFM!

	03-02-2005 02:00									#17
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Then again, Bob is a great name. Too bad it didn't make it into the poll.

	03-02-2005 04:45									#18
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quote: Originally posted by sabrewolf it's nitpicking, but still... "pangea eruptus" is wrong in three ways. 1) pangea is a greek word, eruptus would be latin. 2) if pangea is used, it should at least be pangea erupta (female form) 3) (not sure if i'm right about the one) wouldn't it be pangaea? ("pan" from "overall" and "gaea" for "earth"/"world" i know... i'm a smartarse...

I have no ability to spell. Well, I can usually, but I claim no ability as to not be responsible for spelling errors. Thus it probably should be Pangaea Eruptus.

I think the -us ending sounds better. If we're mixing languages we might as well ignore the genders of the words as well...

	03-02-2005 06:30									#19
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actually the missing 'a' disturbed me more than the "-us"

i guess it is because english doesn't have any different adjective forms for each gender, while all i know or do... (except maybe norwegian, but that's too long ago to remember the details)

but definatly in german, french, italian, spanish, russian, serbo-croatian and latin. probably also in pretty much any other latin-based or slavic language

so you see importance differs depending on your mother tongue

ps: my texts are full of mistakes. many because i don't proofread the posts enough, many also because i do not know it better

	03-02-2005 06:32									#20
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hm, interesting... i just found this java based english-latin translator: http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/LatinDictionary/

the translation of "to erupt" is "erumpere" not as i thought "eruptare".

any people around who really know latin?

	03-02-2005 06:34									#21
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Oh, i'm well aware of the gender issue with noun/adjectives etc... at one time i was well versed in German and French ... I mean simply that since the two words are different languages anywho, we should go with whatever sounds best to the ear. Although perhaps that's what you mean about the mother tongue ...

Any other opinions on this?

	03-02-2005 06:36									#22
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Does it not imply that there are 3 words meaning the same thing, one of which is Eruptum (-ere) ?

	03-02-2005 09:48									#23
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Though I don´t speak latin, I´d much rather go with the correct form. It´s a pain in the a$$ for those who know the difference, and it won´t hurt us to change.

I know what I´m talking about, for Tass keeps on torturing the German language when chatting with me... It can be really, really annoying...

	03-02-2005 10:02									#24
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Sind du sicher das es machen du verrueckt?

(Just kidding, I know that was very very tortured. Really.)

I'm fine with it being correct... whatever you all want ...

	03-02-2005 10:04									#25
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Oh - and if you voted for something other than PE or EoD, feel free to comment in the thread that you'd prefer one or the other; think of this as a pseudo runoff, since no one item got a majority, only a plurality ...

	03-02-2005 10:27									#26
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So...it does look like we will have another poll with only the two names as a choice....is this understanding correct?

	03-02-2005 10:29									#27
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Snoopy, instead of combining a second vote in this same thread, might I suggest that you start a new "naming runoff" thread (so that people don't get confused)?

	03-02-2005 10:59									#28
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Yeh, and I think the poll should include several choices for the different spelling of Pangaeatius Eruptacilium.

	03-02-2005 13:19									#29
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Who cares if the grammar is flawed? Bad grammar is perfectly acceptable when making a name

Besides, we can always claim the bad spelling was intentional.


"Die Pangea Ausbruch"?

	03-02-2005 14:43									#30
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quote: Originally posted by sabrewolf "pangea eruptus" is wrong in three ways. 1) pangea is a greek word, eruptus would be latin. 2) if pangea is used, it should at least be pangea erupta (female form) 3) (not sure if i'm right about the one) wouldn't it be pangaea? ("pan" from "overall" and "gaea" for "earth"/"world"

My bad, I have had no education in either Latin or Greek. Pangea eruptus just came to me and I wrote it down in the Euphorica thread. I assumed someone would correct me if I was making a mistakem, and here it goes .

The thought behind Pangea eruptus was that it seems we're all evolving into a new, aggressive species "Pangea eruptus". Therefore I had added "Dawn to dusk of the unkindest species" (or something like that). It takes a step back in evolution (Homo sapiens -> Homo erectus), to make a few steps forward?

We're playing Pangea, and erectus might not exactly state the proper excitement; eruptus had the right sound and setting to it.