Around the World Create a Family
How This WorksConsider this one big world wide CAF! This is the sign up post, where you can sign up to play the game. The actual game will be posted in a future thread. When you sign up, you will be assigned a zone. It is in this zone that you will find the languages you will be using to create your family. Once you are assigned a zone, you can begin looking for names. The actual family you are filling in, with DH, DW, DD/DS etc, will be provided in the actual game thread. Until then, just brainstorm ideas for names.
Once the actual game thread is set up, I'll explain how you will post your families in the right place for their zone.
This is a judged game. There will be one winner per zone (depeneding on how many people per zone), and three top winners. Criteria for judging will be better outlined in the main thread, but they include name flow, creativity, nicknames, mixing of languagues from the zone etc.
Sign Up!
Name:
Preferred Zone (if any):
The Zones
Zone 1Romance Languages-Spanish
-Portuguese
-Italian
Also: Basque, Catalan, Galician
Zone 2Central Europe-French
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German-Dutch
Also: Provencal, Frisian, Breton, Romanian
Zone 3Scandinavia-Swedish
-Norwegian
-Danish
Also: Icelandic
Zone 4British Isles-English
-Welsh
Also: Cornish
Zone 5The Celts-Scottish
-Irish
Also: Manx
Zone 6The Aegean and Adriatic-Greek
-Macedonian
Also: Albanian
Zone 7The Baltic-Finnish
-Estonian
-Lithuanian
Also: Latvian
Zone 8The Slavs-Hungarian
-Czech and Slovak
-Polish
-Slovene
Also: Serbia and Croatia
Zone 9Eastern Europe-Russian
-Ukranian
-Bulgarian
Zone 10The Middle East-Arabic
-Turkish
-Iranian
Also: Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Kurdish
Zone 11Indian Subcontinent-
IndiaAlso: Hindu Mythology, Sanskrit
Zone 12Far East-Chinese
-Japanese
-Vietnamese
Also: Khmer, Thai (I'm sorry this category doesn't do justice to the extremely varied cultures of its members by putting them together, so I apologize)
Zone 13Africa-Yoruba
-Igbo
-Swahili
Also: Any and all African names (see Category 12 note)
PS: If you Can't tell, we'll need a LOT of people to play, so spread the word!
This message was edited 7/13/2006, 8:10 PM