Naming our cities

[Gingerbread Man]

Please post all your suggested city names here.

Feel free to post them in english, but I would like them translated to chinese.

My suggestions -
Wisdom Harbour
Bay of Victory

Those were out of the top of my head, I'm sure you can find better ones.

And who had a link to a chinese dictionary?

 

[FortyJ]

I've heard that the Firaxians have renamed their capitol in honor of Sid Meier. Perhaps we should consider the same (or similar) and name our city Thunder Falls.

We could even adopt a slew of names for the various CivFanatic Moderators and members.

Thunder Falls
Chieftess Creek
Athenae
etc...
and, in honor of our founding President, Doughnutopia

 

[Octavian X]

We'll use GBM's suggestion for the moment - We can rename later.

Wisdom Harbour it is..

 

[Goonie]

I dont think we should name cities after mods who do not participate in this game. ThunderFalls sounds nice!

 

[Plexus]

Id like to see a chinese version of wisdom harbor if possible.

Edit: @GBM- I had the dictionary: http://zhongwen.com/

"Wisdom Harbor" would be "Zhi Gang" or "Zhi Gangkou"

 

[Vander]

We could have a city in the hills called mountain of god or god's mountain (I don't know Chinese grammar!)

 

[Gingerbread Man]

I like Zhi Gang. It has fewer syllables, and sounds funny.

 

[Ehecatl Atzin]

How about Mountain of many winds? or Golden River? In chinese of course.

EA

 

[Gingerbread Man]

Gold Streams = jin chuän

lets get something off Tolkien:

Misty mountains = Méngméng Shän
White mountains = Bái Shan

I'm only up to the start of The Two Towers, so I dont know many other good names.

The phoenetics are all stuffed up, but I doubt you are worried.

 

[Plexus]

I like Bái Shan!

Grey Havens: Dánhan Pingdi (Literally "light black safe place")

 

[Gingerbread Man]

Thats good.

Victory Bay = Shénglì Waan (waan is actually 'w', 'a' with a "-" on top, then 'n', but I cant find 'a' with - in the character map.

Plains of Enlightenment = Qishì Píngyuáng (Inspiration Plain)
Civilization Insomniac = Wènmíng Shimiánbìng (civilization insomnia)

 

[Cheetah]

Forgive me, but what does insomnia / insomniac mean?

 

[WildFire]

Insomnia

Part of Speech noun
Pronunciation ihn sam ni E
Definition 1. difficulty in getting to sleep, esp. as a persistent problem.

Derived Forms insomnious, adj.

 

[Killer A's]

I think one city should be named for or by each president.

 

[Gingerbread Man]

A civilization insomniac is a person who skips sleeping to play civ3.

 

[Cheetah]

hehe k