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Old October 29th, 2010, 01:38 PM
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Other Alternate...Things pages

We have a Wiki page for names of common items and concepts in ATLs, and another for geographic regions. What other areas deserve pages?

I was thinking "Alternate Racial/National Slurs" (Decades of Darkness has a few examples - Jackals for Americans, Hollies for Germans). Any other ideas?
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Old October 29th, 2010, 02:07 PM
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Any other ideas?
I was going to suggest the creation of one about you and other prominent board members, but notice someone has already beaten me to it.

To be honest, I didn't know this website had a wiki, you learn something everyday.
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Old October 29th, 2010, 05:06 PM
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Alternate Names for Cities would be a cool database.
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Old October 30th, 2010, 06:05 PM
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Alternate Names for Cities would be a cool database.
Good one. Should that go under the alternate place names one or should we make a separate one?
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Old October 30th, 2010, 11:44 PM
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Or how about alternate terminologies for OTL inventions that pop up in an ATL universe?
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Old October 31st, 2010, 01:06 AM
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Or how about alternate terminologies for OTL inventions that pop up in an ATL universe?
Well, the bulk of the Alternate Terminology page is already that, though I guess renaming the page might be something to do if we create other variations. Hm. On the other hand, perhaps spinning off 'science and technology', and making the Terminology page an 'other' page of sorts might work better.
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Old October 31st, 2010, 02:27 AM
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Good one. Should that go under the alternate place names one or should we make a separate one?
My suggestion is ...
A page for cities, states/provinces, nations/colonies, separate from the recently established lakes, rivers, seas, oceans, deserts,. continents and etc. page would be good to see.
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Old October 31st, 2010, 04:22 AM
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Good one. Should that go under the alternate place names one or should we make a separate one?
I think we'd need alternate listings for each order of magnitude in geographic size, neighbourhoods, cities, provinces and states to continents and planets even, but I think the Cities level is the best one to start with.
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Old October 31st, 2010, 06:01 AM
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Or alternate names for animal and plant species?
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Old October 31st, 2010, 09:25 AM
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Or alternate names for animal and plant species?
We already have an alternate name for everything on the planet: Lunch.
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Old October 31st, 2010, 03:06 PM
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We already have an alternate name for everything on the planet: Lunch.
That's not exactly what I meant.
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That's not exactly what I meant.
Leftovers?
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Old October 31st, 2010, 08:19 PM
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That's not exactly what I meant.
I suppose for you it's "porn".
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Old November 1st, 2010, 09:46 PM
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I suppose for you it's "porn".
I'm British. We don't partake in these things.
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Old November 1st, 2010, 09:57 PM
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I'm British. We don't partake in these things.
So New York is British now?
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Indeed my dear boy!
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Leftovers?
Don't forget remedies and yucky stuff.

Also we need alternate geographical names, like Salmon River in place of Snake River in my TL. (Shameless plug yes )

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Old November 2nd, 2010, 02:23 AM
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Don't forget remedies and yucky stuff.

Also we need alternate geographical names, like Salmon River in place of Snake River in my TL. (Shameless plug yes )
To quote a TV commercial ... "It's in there." http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/dok...ographic_names
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Don't forget remedies and yucky stuff.

Also we need alternate geographical names, like Salmon River in place of Snake River in my TL. (Shameless plug yes )
The Salish Sea is the new replacement term for the bodies of water around Vancouver. Name it after an indian tribe.
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Old November 2nd, 2010, 03:23 AM
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To quote a TV commercial ... "It's in there." http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/dok...ographic_names
That's for continents and regions, doesn't seem right to stick a mere river in there.
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