A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win back control of its ccTLD

Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by bagpuss on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:42PM (#25445614)

This has to be a contender for strangest country name origin story :

Subsequent settlers were surprised to find vegetation on the chunk of coral rising from the sea, calling the place Niue, which in the local language means, "Look, there's a coconut."

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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by stakkur on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:20PM (#25446127)

Douglas Adams must have written this. There's no other plausible explanation.

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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by gostsamo on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:42PM (#25446535)

More like Pratchett.

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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by gostsamo on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:21AM (#25454917)

Honestly people, I don't know what is so problematic about Pratchett. For the last day this comment is receiving almost equal amounts of up and down votes every now and then for reasons unobtainable to me. For those interested, check Fantastic Light and the geographic naming conventions described there. Adams is also fantastic humorist but he does not play with the names of places the same way and prefers to just make them long and convoluted.

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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by Mediterraneo10 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:18AM (#25454910)

It is probably spurious, just like so many folk etymologies of the names of towns based on something the founder supposedly said as he caught sight of the area.

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