Re: Which faction are you most interested in historically?
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Originally Posted by Simetrical
A-mé-ri-ca=
1. A very large continent, not named after the one who re-discovered it, but after the one who really realized what it was. The citizens of a single country seized unilaterally the whole name for themselves and put it into their dictionaries. Surely because they wanted the whole continent, too. Just as if the Germans say "Europe" to refer to only Germany, and the rest of us have to believe it just because it is in the German official dictionary. ~:rolleyes:
2. A new world, full of the people we didn't want in the old one. But also of silver, tomato, potatoes, chocolate, tobacco, turkeys, parrots, cocaine and corn. I love roasted parrot with tomato and chips.
3. Familiarly, the wife of Americo Vespucci, as their milkman used to call her.
4. A thing that the Russian baddies of the movies of the 70s say with a vicious grin: "Ammerrrika!"
http://aconvenient.dictionaryIhaveju...larguments.com
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Re: Which faction are you most interested in historically?
How does Macedonia only have one vote?! (I voted Gaul, cos there was no option for all the Celts...)
Re: Which faction are you most interested in historically?
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Originally Posted by anonymous_joe
How does Macedonia only have one vote?! (I voted Gaul, cos there was no option for all the Celts...)
hmm... i wonder who..
i really, really hate rome for being on #1...
people seem to find rome three steps above all other factions because they conquered the world, but i don't find them so great actually..bunch of arogant, intolerant, hyper-religious,earth conquering freaks..(~;) )
i stillthink greece could have conquered the world..if greeks were ever to stop fighting each other...
soemhow i feel many peopel will be disapointed to see that rome isn't as superior as they tought it was..
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Greeks weren't great either. Much like the Romans in fact. Just not as organised. Go Celts! :charge:
Re: Which faction are you most interested in historically?
Re: Which faction are you most interested in historically?
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Originally Posted by Dux Corvanus
A-mé-ri-ca=
1. A very large continent, not named after the one who re-discovered it, but after the one who really realized what it was. The citizens of a single country seized unilaterally the whole name for themselves and put it into their dictionaries. Surely because they wanted the whole continent, too. Just as if the Germans say "Europe" to refer to only Germany, and the rest of us have to believe it just because it is in the German official dictionary. ~:rolleyes:
We should also stop this silliness of referring to the entire continent south of Eurasia as "Africa". Everyone knows that Africa actually only refers to Carthage, Libya, and certain parts of what we now erroneously characterize as northern Africa. And what's with those selfish English stealing the name "Angle-land" from the descendants of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who remained behind in Germanic territory? Then there are those Spaniards, taking the name of an entire peninsula, imagine the audacity! I vote we all return to the first known name for any geographical region and put an end to this nomenclatural theft.
-Simetrical, proud resident of Scheyischbi Island
Re: Which faction are you most interested in historically?
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Originally Posted by Simetrical
We should also stop this silliness of referring to the entire continent south of Eurasia as "Africa". Everyone knows that Africa actually only refers to Carthage, Libya, and certain parts of what we now erroneously characterize as northern Africa. And what's with those selfish English stealing the name "Angle-land" from the descendants of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who remained behind in Germanic territory? Then there are those Spaniards, taking the name of an entire peninsula, imagine the audacity! I vote we all return to the first known name for any geographical region and put an end to this nomenclatural theft.
-Simetrical, proud resident of Scheyischbi Island
What about Portugal? And Angle-land is a political name.
