RE: IF ship names

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Petska [mailto:petska@gpcom.net]
> At 08:40 PM 10/13/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >At 10:37 PM 10/13/99 -0400, Laserlight wrote:
> >
> >>Well, IIRC the Muslims recognize Noah, Abraham, David,
> >>Solomon, John the Baptist, and Jesus as prophets too, but I
> >>don't think I'd do that either.
> >
> >OK, we seem to want to avoid all the religious ones (I 
> personally think
> >that's overly cautious, as politics, religion, warfare, and 
> culture are darn
> >near inseparable in the Middle East), how about some ancient 
> Arabian ones?

I don't think that we have to avoid all the religious names, just make
sure
that we aren't using it the wrong way (for example, check out the flak
over
naming of SSN 705 USS City of Corpus Christi).	If there is an
historical
precedent of the name being used in the real world, I wouldn't see a
problem
with using it in the game.

There is a list of possible Farsi name for ships at
http://www.persian.com
under the 'Boy's Names' and 'Girl's Names' links, with pronunciation
guide
and english meanings.

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