Exactly what I thought. But in which thread should I put her Great Spy Thread or Great Female Person Thread?
The Great Great People Name Contest
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Exactly what I thought. But in which thread should I put her Great Spy Thread or Great Female Person Thread?
ozqar
King
I officially support using the term "USAn". I would also like to encourage moderate drunkenness when deciding to add new civs.
baseballpie
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As a "USAn", I can say that I am not familiar with this demonym.
need my speed
Rex Omnium Imperarium
I made it up, to my knowledge, and I practically always use it. I'd pronounce it as 'Yousan', which sounds kind of catchy in my opinion. 'United Stater' (the English translation of the French / Spanish / et cetera demonym, to my knowledge) doesn't sound very nice in English, in my opinion, and there's also the 'United Mexican States', so it doesn't work well anyway.
need my speed
Rex Omnium Imperarium
Yeah, I do that instinctively, but I think 'Yousan' would sound better.
DC123456789
Deity
A small thing: is the custom to use the most familiar English name or the native name for GPs, given a choice?
ozqar
King
It's mostly used outside of the USA, especially in Latin America, but I've also encountered people in Europe using it.
I'd translate "Estadounidense" as "Unitedstatesian", and agree it sounds weird anyway. However, as a citizen of the United Mexican States, let me speak for my people and say that we don't mind letting the USA keep the demonym. Last president introduced a bill to even drop that part out of our official name (and leave it as "Mexico"), but his term ran out before the proposal was voted at Congress. Perhaps next term?
My pronunciation exactly!
Tomorrow's Dawn
Heroes Never Die
Not participating in this contest, but Leoreth, I wanted to bring your attention to Sanchuniathon
as a Phoenician Great Prophet considering how many of these civs are difficult to find GPs for. I can't remember if he was already a GP or not.
Source: http://phoenicia.org/theomythology.html
The other figures featured are either mythological or Roman citizens, of which we have numerous better examples for.
as a Phoenician Great Prophet considering how many of these civs are difficult to find GPs for. I can't remember if he was already a GP or not.
Source: http://phoenicia.org/theomythology.html
The other figures featured are either mythological or Roman citizens, of which we have numerous better examples for.
Tomorrow's Dawn
Heroes Never Die
Haha, I've run out of steam for DoC suggestions a long time ago, but I suppose I can give it a go thanks to Lizard Squad sinking PSN. I'll see what I can provide for more Female GPs.
strijder20
Wallowing in irony
Do I get double points for great stateswomen? 
My apologies if some of these people are already in the game.
Also, are you planning to give great generals dynamic names at some point? Or are they already? I can't recall.
USA
Great Stateswomen:
Victoria Woodhull (first female presidential candidate in USA)
Hattie Caraway (First woman elected to Senate in USA)
Rosa Parks (Abolitionism)
Greece:
Great stateswoman:
Mother Teresa (Development aid in India)
Netherlands:
Great stateswomen:
Irène van de Weetering (Fought for emancipation)
Betsy Perk (Fought for emancipation)
Great Artist:
Anne Frank (Who'd obviously also could be a German GP)
Hildegard von Bingen (Medieval abbess and composer)
Argentina
Great Stateswoman:
Evita Peron (influential first lady)
England
Great Stateswomen
Emmeline Pankhurst (Emancipation)
Margaret Thatcher (Controversial, but certainly influential)
Great Scientist
Florence Nightingale (Hospital conditions)
Austria
Great Stateswoman
Bertha von Suttner (Pacifism, Emancipation, convinced Nobel to dedicate his fortune to Nobel prizes and ironically also was the first female noble prize winner)
China
Great stateswoman:
Cixi (She got replaced by that other LH because she was too ugly, right?)
Great generals
Zenobia of Palmyra (Conquered large parts of the ERE during a Roman civil war)
My apologies if some of these people are already in the game.
Also, are you planning to give great generals dynamic names at some point? Or are they already? I can't recall.
USA
Great Stateswomen:
Victoria Woodhull (first female presidential candidate in USA)
Hattie Caraway (First woman elected to Senate in USA)
Rosa Parks (Abolitionism)
Greece:
Great stateswoman:
Mother Teresa (Development aid in India)
Netherlands:
Great stateswomen:
Irène van de Weetering (Fought for emancipation)
Betsy Perk (Fought for emancipation)
Great Artist:
Anne Frank (Who'd obviously also could be a German GP)
Hildegard von Bingen (Medieval abbess and composer)
Argentina
Great Stateswoman:
Evita Peron (influential first lady)
England
Great Stateswomen
Emmeline Pankhurst (Emancipation)
Margaret Thatcher (Controversial, but certainly influential)
Great Scientist
Florence Nightingale (Hospital conditions)
Austria
Great Stateswoman
Bertha von Suttner (Pacifism, Emancipation, convinced Nobel to dedicate his fortune to Nobel prizes and ironically also was the first female noble prize winner)
China
Great stateswoman:
Cixi (She got replaced by that other LH because she was too ugly, right?)
Great generals
Zenobia of Palmyra (Conquered large parts of the ERE during a Roman civil war)
I hope it's a joke. Mother Teresa was neither greek nor great stateswoman.
ozqar
King
She did huge humanitarian and social work, which, if I remember correctly, was supposed to be included in the field of work of states(wo)men. She's also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and you could argue her charity work is a diplomacy of sorts.
But you're right, she's not greek, she's Macedonian/Albanian, and was born in Ottoman times. So perhaps she could be Ottoman. Later she became an Indian citizen, so perhaps that.
strijder20
Wallowing in irony
She was Macedonian. I figured Greek came the closest to that.
