Spearthrower said:
I think Bhumibol is the best spelling, but as I said before, consistency is far more appealing. In all honesty, I think a lot of Thais would find it highly disrespectful using Bhumibol or Chulalongkorn in a computer game as they are practically deified.
I agree that Bhumibol would not be well received. But Chulalongkorn should be OK. After all, there is Chulalongkorn University. But for Thais, Rama V and Rama IX would be best, although for everybody else those titles are a bit cold.
How about a woman, Suriyothai? That would be great. There are plenty of pictures from the movie available.
Spearthrower said:
This first is the perfect example: the Persians *always* called their country Iran... in fact it was first called Persia by the Greeks after the hero Persis. Iran actually accepted the dual use of Persia/Iran only a hundred or so years ago. Thus it is an anglicised name.
Right, but Persia is an ancient name as well, even if the Iranians did not use it themselves.
I'm not arguing that we should use Siam just because the Siamese used it. I'm arguing that we should because everybody used it until very recently.
(And Siam is also an anglicization - from "Sayaam Prathet".)
Spearthrower said:
We dont call the Greeks the Hellenes, the French the Gauls (or Franks), the Egyptians the Khemeians.... we use their modernised name.
Greece and Egypt are also ancient names that foreigners gave to those places, so they go very well with the ancient eras of the game. It is the age of the name that is important to me, not whether it is locally authentic or not.
But Thailand only dates to 1932 and so sounds really out of place to me when playing in ancient times (which is most of the game).
Spearthrower said:
Historically they all work, as I said, they are ALL the modernized, anglicised versions of their names.... they are not in their own, original language. Thus, Thailand would fit better into the game imo.
I would agree 100 percent if "Siam" was as unknown to most people as Hellas or Bharat (India) or Kart Hadasht (Carthage).
But everybody knows Siam.
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Here are 30 towns in rough order of settlement. I've left out some ancient towns that were settled by the Khmer and later conquered by the Siamese.
(Note: Although Bangkok is more properly called Krung Thep, the original settlement was named Bangkok and only changed when the capital moved there. So I've left it as Bangkok. If you move your capital there, you can change it yourself !)
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_SUKHOTHAI</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_SI_SATCHANALAI</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_CHIANG_RAI</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_CHIANG MAI</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_SUPHAN_BURI</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_SRI_AYUTTHAYA</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_PHITSANULOK</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_NAKHON_PATHOM</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_LAMPANG</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_NAKHON_RATCHASIMA</City>
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<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_BANGKOK</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_UTTARADIT</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_KHON_KAEN</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_BURI_RAM</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_PHETCHABURI</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_KANCHANABURI</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_SARABURI</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_CHON_BUIR</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_CHANTABURI</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_NAKHON_SRI_TAMMARAT</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_PHATTALUNG</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_SONGKHLA</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_CHUMPON</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_NARATIWAT</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_SURAT_THANI</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_PHUKET</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_RANONG</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_SATUN</City>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_YALA</City>