by Dretan Empire » Wed Aug 24, 2016 2:34 am
by The Gipper » Wed Aug 24, 2016 8:57 am
by Mousebumples » Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:25 am
by Trotterdam » Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:57 am
It would be nice to be able to make the "the" lowercase, though.The Gipper wrote:Just make a puppet whose name starts with "The".
by Hydraic Empire » Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:34 pm
Mousebumples wrote:Additionally, it may result in some confusion/impersonation issues.
Example: Nation "Gipper" and nation "The Gipper" If they use the same pretitle and similar flags, they could appear to be the same nation in some ways.
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by Dretan Empire » Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:23 am
The Gipper wrote:Some of us would have two the-s then. And many many nations which do not need a "the" would have one. We wouldn't want it to sound like The United States of the America.
Just make a puppet whose name starts with "The".
by Hydraic Empire » Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:40 pm
Hydraic Empire wrote:Mousebumples wrote:Additionally, it may result in some confusion/impersonation issues.
Example: Nation "Gipper" and nation "The Gipper" If they use the same pretitle and similar flags, they could appear to be the same nation in some ways.
I see your point, however I wish this "of the" was implemented. Perhaps we just get rid of the words "the" and "of" in the pretitle? Then we'd could just manually add those words, if we wished. But Gipper and The Gipper would really seem the same no matter what we do....
National News: Polls reopen, with the following results thus far: Hydraic Party 5 845 926 342 016 376 822 (97%) Communal Socialist Party 90 400 922 814 686 240 (1.5%) Populist Party 54 240 553 688 811 736 (.9%) Nationalist Party 30 133 640 938 228 748 (.5%) Other 6 026 728 187 645 692 (<.1%). | Official testing of a young psionic mage scheduled for this month. | Populist leader Fer'dik Sal'u caught with other women by his wife.
by Hydraic Empire » Thu Sep 29, 2016 9:09 pm
Hydraic Empire wrote:Hydraic Empire wrote:I see your point, however I wish this "of the" was implemented. Perhaps we just get rid of the words "the" and "of" in the pretitle? Then we'd could just manually add those words, if we wished. But Gipper and The Gipper would really seem the same no matter what we do....
Branching off of this, if this happened it would make pretitles so much more creative; for example, instead of my pretitle reading (for example) "The Imperial of Hydraic Empire" it would be "Imperial Hydraic Empire." This would clean up some of the grammar mistakes, especially when a nation (such as myself) creates a nation without understanding what the pretitle is and how it works.
National News: Polls reopen, with the following results thus far: Hydraic Party 5 845 926 342 016 376 822 (97%) Communal Socialist Party 90 400 922 814 686 240 (1.5%) Populist Party 54 240 553 688 811 736 (.9%) Nationalist Party 30 133 640 938 228 748 (.5%) Other 6 026 728 187 645 692 (<.1%). | Official testing of a young psionic mage scheduled for this month. | Populist leader Fer'dik Sal'u caught with other women by his wife.
by Bruination » Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:27 am
by Almonaster Nuevo » Fri Sep 30, 2016 8:28 am
Bruination wrote:Sorry if this is considered a separate topic, but whenever a nation name begins with "The[space]" or "A[space]", shouldn't the T or A be rendered lowercase except when it begins a sentence, like with real life nations that typically use an article? Can this be done, or would it be an awful headache?
Lonely Planet wrote:This small reserve is a kaleidoscope of The Gambia’s varied landscape and birdlife.
by Jumhuriyah Hindustan » Fri Sep 30, 2016 8:30 am
by Carartia » Fri Sep 30, 2016 8:37 am
Carartia wrote:In a perfect world, you would write Republic of for something like Poland in settings, and Republic of the for something like the smaller Congo. Mods, please consider it. Max Barry, that's you, also.
by The Brown Bear » Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:55 am
Almonaster Nuevo wrote:Bruination wrote:Sorry if this is considered a separate topic, but whenever a nation name begins with "The[space]" or "A[space]", shouldn't the T or A be rendered lowercase except when it begins a sentence, like with real life nations that typically use an article? Can this be done, or would it be an awful headache?
The only RL nation I know of where the article is part of the official name is The Gambia. A capital 'T' is generally used when the name is written. For example...Lonely Planet wrote:This small reserve is a kaleidoscope of The Gambia’s varied landscape and birdlife.
by The Brown Bear » Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:59 am
by Trotterdam » Fri Sep 30, 2016 1:24 pm
by Gregoryisgodistan » Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:22 pm
The Brown Bear wrote:Almonaster Nuevo wrote:
The only RL nation I know of where the article is part of the official name is The Gambia. A capital 'T' is generally used when the name is written. For example...
I said "real life nations that typically use an article"--common names, to elaborate. The Netherlands, the Philippines, the UK, the US, the DRC, etc. I didn't say official.
by The Test Nation Junior » Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:31 pm
by Flanderlion » Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:36 pm
The Test Nation Junior wrote:This is GGS's new test puppet. (the Test Nation was used by a nation that CTEd 4 years ago so I can't have it.) It didn't let me call it "the Test Nation Junior" but oddly enough it's showing me as in "the Pacific" which is really weird since the The in The Pacific has a capital T normally, I think. Is it technically possible for an admin to change our name to the Test Nation Junior (don't waste your time doing it unless you don't know and need to find out, I'm just curious) and if not (or even if so) why are we showing in "the Pacific"?
by The Brown Bear » Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:46 pm
Gregoryisgodistan wrote:But seriously, just create a nation name that starts with The. It isn't hard.
by Dretan Empire » Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:25 am
Gregoryisgodistan wrote:But seriously, just create a nation name that starts with The. It isn't hard.
by Gregoryisgodistan » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:49 am
by Dretan Empire » Sun Oct 09, 2016 11:39 pm
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