From: Noah Doyle <nvdoyle@m...>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:17:09 -0500
Subject: [FT] Naming Islamic Fed ships (was Re: [FT] Islamic Fed SSDs)
How about naming the classes, or individual ships, after certain Suras (sp?) from the Koran? I'm sure that there are passages that would make for appropriately martial/bombastic/subtle warship names. Who says it has to be one word, why not a phrase? Those who study their holy text would know the implications/importance of each name.
From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:45:10 +0000
Subject: Re: [FT] Naming Islamic Fed ships (was Re: [FT] Islamic Fed SSDs)
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:17:09AM -0500, Noah V. Doyle wrote: "Sir, we're being hailed by the '111.3'." (flip flip flip) "'He shall soon burn in fire that flames.' Knew I should have stayed in bed this morning." R
From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:53:14 -0600
Subject: Re: [FT] Naming Islamic Fed ships (was Re: [FT] Islamic Fed SSDs)
*snip* > one word, why not a phrase? Those who study their holy text would know However, they'd tend to get shortened fairly quick. Dreadnought, of course, comes from the phrase 'Fear God and Dread Nought'. I'm not sure if that's actually out of the bible, though. Heck, USS Wisconsin, I believe, became 'Old Wisc'. > "Sir, we're being hailed by the '111.3'." > (flip flip flip) > "'He shall soon burn in fire that flames.' Knew I should have stayed in 'He burns'? 'He in fire that flames'? Without knowing the original language, it's hard to say what is a good abbreviating; the whole phrase may be short enough, though. The_Beast
From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:25:24 -0500
Subject: Re: [FT] Naming Islamic Fed ships (was Re: [FT] Islamic Fed SSDs)
> How about naming the classes, or individual ships, after certain Mostly not. The titles of the surahs are things like "The Cow" and "The Mountain" and "The Women". By the way, current Saudi navy classes include things like: Madina (major city) Badr (means "moon" but I assume it's referring to the battle of Badr, a Moslem victory) al Siddiq (companion of the Prophet) Damman (port city) al Jawf (region) Safwa (city, as I recall) There's also an Afif class. Afif is a masculine name meaning "chaste", so I suppose for the CL we could use personal characteristics: Amin (Faithful), Alim (Learned), Ashraf (Honorable) and so forth.
From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:14:57 +1100
Subject: RE: [FT] Naming Islamic Fed ships (was Re: [FT] Islamic Fed SSDs)
G'day, > There's also an Afif class. Afif is a masculine name meaning I like that idea. Cheers
From: Noah Doyle <nvdoyle@m...>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:33:54 -0500
Subject: Re: [FT] Naming Islamic Fed ships (was Re: [FT] Islamic Fed SSDs)
> At 02:00 AM 11/29/2004, The GZG Digest wrote: > Mostly not. The titles of the surahs are things like "The Cow" and Nah, I was thinking phrases from them, not titles, but I didn't have any examples at the time. > There's also an Afif class. Afif is a masculine name meaning That's a much better idea than mine.:)