Saturday, October 11, 2008

Fictional country name

Meanwhile, if I ever write a spy novel, the evil adversary country will be called Tangeria. It sounds like a country doesn't it? Perhaps that's where tangerines come from.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please can the national anthem be Tangerine by Led Zeppelin?

PTR said...

That is an excellent suggestion. But the lyrics simply won't do. I'd have to fit new lyrics to the music. Something like:

"Steel hands, golden heart,
O land of Tangeria,
You are a mother to me,
And my many brothers.

Once more we will rise,
Once more we will live our dreams,
Once more the world will know,
Tangeria, the mountain flower."

This of course is the English translation which is why is doesn't rhyme or scan.

Anonymous said...

If it is going to be a fictional country, shouldn't the National Anthem be something more tangential? After all, it's not as if we live in GodSaveTheQueen or AdvanceAustraliaFair.

My vote would be to adopt "Wluduoem" as the Anthem. I'm not sure if that's actually a song, but I've always wanted to try and work the word verification code into the text of a message. Bingo!

PTR said...

This is such an important topic that I'm going to thrust it back onto the main page. See Monday 13 October for an update!