Name of Sim4

[Jamie Palisades]

We have an approved plan for Sim4. It's an extension to Colonia Nova, to the west.
So far we are referring to it as "CN-West."
When CDS buys the sim island from LL, we must request the official name.
This is going to happen soon.
What should it be?
"Nyah Nyah Des" probably wouldn't look good in the sales brochures.

Guild members pointed out to me that the RA probably should act to approve the name. Or maybe it's Alexicon's job? In any case, let's hear some suggestions. If there are several good ideas, presumably we can hold a poll, or talk about it in a meeting. And we should have backups: sometimes sim names are rejected. In any case, we need to act -- this decision literally is an obstacle to ordering the sim.

Jamie P

[Desmond Shang]

Oooh, can I help name it?

Pick me, pick me!!

I was thinking: Fountain Head, with a sim placard emblazoned with its official animal, the Unicorn!

All silliness and quixotic, CDS-political Randian inferences implied and intended...

[Jamie Palisades]

Jamie sighs, slowly, pushes a few buttons, and trains the giant, Swiss-manufactured antiaircraft guns secreted away in the Alpes bavaroises, away from Plush Alpha, and back to the NW, towards Caledon, in case Des the Despot sends Zoe Connolly overhead to our peaceful skies with a bunch of leaflet drops or some damn thing. Peace is SO fragile.

[Justice Soothsayer]

Colonia Nova II?
Colonia even more Nova?
Colonia Nova Suburba?

[Rose Springvale]

Let's have some fun with this!
1. Let's stay with Latin words.
2. I know a lot of Latin words but never took the class, so would someone who knows how the language works play with these combinations and put them in proper tense?
3. Let's go for poetic and symbolic.

I put a few interesting words in a free translator and see some potential... anyone want to play with them?

Community:
civitas, civitatis
community/city/town/state; citizens; citizen rights/citizenship; naturalization;
communio, communionis
community, mutual participation; association; sharing; fellowship; communion;
communitas, communitatis
partnership, joint possession/use/participation; fellowship; community, kinship;

Neighborhood
locus, loci
place, territory/locality/neighborhood/region; position/point; aim point; site;
regio, regionis
area, region; neighborhood; district, country; direction;
locum, loci
place, territory/locality/neighborhood/region; position/point; aim point; site;

Friend
amicus, amici
friend, ally, disciple; loved one; patron; counselor/courtier (to a prince);
amator, amatoris
lover; friend, devotee; enthusiastic admirer/pursuer; one fond of women;
convictor, convictoris
messmate, friend, companion; one who lives with a person on intimate terms;

Cooperate
consensio cooperate

Consensus
consensus, consensus
|general consensus; custom; combined action; [concensu => by general consent];
consilium, consili(i)

Intelligence
|||intelligence, sense, capacity for judgment/invention; mental ability; choice;
intelligentia, intelligentiae
intelligence;
intellegentia, intellegentiae
intelligence; intellect; understanding;
sapiencia, sapienciae
|prudence, discretion, discernment (L+S); good sense; good taste; intelligence;
sapientia, sapientiae
|prudence, discretion, discernment (L+S); good sense; good taste; intelligence;
comperte, compertius, compertissime
on good authority, on reliable information/intelligence; informedly;

hands
pando, pandere, pandi, passus
spread out [passis manibus => with hands outstretched];
(i like this phrase!)
adsero, adserere, adserui, adsertus lay hands on, grasp; assert, allege; free, release; claim; protect, preserve;
assero, asserere, asserui, assertus
lay hands on/grasp; assert/state/allege; free/release; claim; protect/preserve;

health
salus, salutis
health; prosperity; good wish; greeting; salvation, safety;
valetudo, valetudinis N good health, soundness; condition of body/health; illness, indisposition;

[Jamie Palisades]

hm well Rose, given the plat maps, if you want a descriptive Latin name how about
Milton Keynesam
or
Levittownum
:) JP

[Rose Springvale]

Not bad Jamie... though thematically/geographically... Halle Westphalia perhaps? or Louvain-la-Neuve to introduce new elements of confusion, or Bayreuth which fits more the NFS theme/era but at least is German.... only planned city wikipedia returns for ancient rome is that little town of Constantinople... and i'm not sure that fits with any of the master plans!

[symokurka]

I suggest LOCUS AMOENUS (pleasant place)

[Moon Adamant]

i like Locus Amoenus... it describes the feel the sim will have, i think.

[Rose Springvale]

There see? Nice Latin name! and gives it a good feeling... and well, who doesn't like LA??

(but if the fog from NFS comes down the mountain, can we NOT do smog?)

[Jamie Palisades]

This was approved on Saturday. See http://forums.slcds.info//viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1902