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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4358 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 25 of 54 06 December 2013 at 7:19am | IP Logged |
I like the turkish team's name, but we could play around we some names to see how they sound.
How about team hoş?
Team aşk (for the language)?
Team ilim?
Team zeki?
Team dil?
Team gül? Like the roses on their miniatures?
Anyway, enough!
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6061 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical)
| Message 26 of 54 06 December 2013 at 12:31pm | IP Logged |
The names with unusual characters look informative, exotic and beautiful.
But, since they are not keyboard-supported (a few may be, but you get my drift), they can be hard to write.
My Arabic team this year is called Alef. If it had been called أ (the "real" alif), it would have been tiresome to write. And it's just one character.
Normally I wouldn't bring this up, but since we're being picky...
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4639 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 27 of 54 06 December 2013 at 3:07pm | IP Logged |
I will join the Greek team, if there is one (seems to be only me so far over in the sign-up thread, apart from the Godmother). I therefore take the opportunity to launch in before anyone else with suggestions for Greek Team names. The Sparta team never really got into the fight this year, for various reasons, so I would suggest something else for 2014. Possible ideas at this stage are:
Argonautes (on a quest to find the Golden Fleece - fluency in Greek)
Olympians (self-explanatory)
Team Athena (Athena being the goddess of reason, intelligent activity, arts and literature, and probably the origin of the capital Athen's name)
Edited by Ogrim on 06 December 2013 at 3:53pm
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 28 of 54 06 December 2013 at 4:38pm | IP Logged |
Luso wrote:
The names with unusual characters look informative, exotic and beautiful.
But, since they are not keyboard-supported (a few may be, but you get my drift), they can be hard to write.
My Arabic team this year is called Alef. If it had been called أ (the "real" alif), it would have been tiresome to write. And it's just one character.
Normally I wouldn't bring this up, but since we're being picky... |
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I'd assume that if you're learning the language, you have a way to type it on your computer.* On Windows you can add a keyboard layout via Control Panel->Language and regional settings, and then there's also the abcTajpu add-on.
*The main exception is probably the learners of Mandarin and Japanese who've decided to focus solely on the speaking. But if there's an alphabet, most do learn it.
Ogrim, the names are kinda long :/
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| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4636 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin
| Message 29 of 54 06 December 2013 at 4:41pm | IP Logged |
Is there an idea for a rarer languages team being tossed around?
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4844 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 30 of 54 06 December 2013 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
Why shouldn't the team names be discussed by the teams themselves? This thread here is bound to become an utter mess by January.
Choosing a name is the first task of the team and creates some team spirit from the beginning. I don't know why other people should meddle in this.
And what's it with "short names only"? I know the space for log titles is limited, but most people won't join three teams anyway, so they will have enough space left.
Edited by Josquin on 06 December 2013 at 5:16pm
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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4703 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 31 of 54 06 December 2013 at 5:19pm | IP Logged |
Just throwing out a few ideas for Team Dutch:
Team Kikker (from 'ons kleine kikkerlandje', how some people nickname the Netherlands)
Team Kaas
Team Gezellig
Team Speculaas
Team Pepernoot
Team Vlaai
Team Wim-Lex (patriotic?)
Team Oranje
As you can see, I was hungry...
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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4715 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 32 of 54 06 December 2013 at 5:22pm | IP Logged |
I like Team Oranje! Or Team Sinterklaas!
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