New names for German cities

[Head]

Hi,

the current German city names often sound odd, for example 'Düsseldorfover', 'Flensgen' or 'Hanmund'. I created a new list which hopefully doesn't produce such strange names.

Each name consists of a prefix and a suffix. I chose suffixes which are typical for many different regions of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. For example, "büttel" is usual in Northern Germany, "werda" is usual in Saxonia, "hofen" and "stätt" in Southern Germany, "thurn" in Switzerland and "zell" in Austria.

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#define NUM_GERMAN_1 31
static const char german_1[] =
  MK("Alten")
  MK("Blanken")
  MK("Blau")
  MK("Braun")
  MK("Cloppen")
  MK("Eich")
  MK("Eisen")
  MK("Düssel")
  MK("Fichten")
  MK("Flens")
  MK("Friedrichs")
  MK("Frank")
  MK("Frei")
  MK("Freuden")
  MK("Grün")
  MK("Heidel")
  MK("Karls")
  MK("Königs")
  MK("Inns")
  MK("Langen")
  MK("Ludwigs")
  MK("Marien")
  MK("Mühl")
  MK("Neu")
  MK("Nieder")
  MK("Nord")
  MK("Ober")
  MK("Olden")
  MK("Offen")
  MK("Pfung")
  MK("Michel")
  MK("Ravens")
  MK("Reichen")
  MK("Rosen")
  MK("Rothen")
  MK("Schwarzen")
  MK("Schwein")
  MK("Wester")
  MK("Wert")
  MK("Wildes")
  MK("Wolfen")
  MK("Wupper")
;

#define NUM_GERMAN_2 32

static const char german_2[] =
  MK("bach")
  MK("berg")
  MK("born")
  MK("brück")
  MK("burg")
  MK("brunn")
  MK("büttel")
  MK("dorf")
  MK("feld")
  MK("ford")
  MK("furt")
  MK("garten")
  MK("hain")
  MK("hausen")
  MK("haven")
  MK("heim")
  MK("hofen")
  MK("kirchen")
  MK("mark")
  MK("mund")
  MK("münster")
  MK("hausen")
  MK("see")
  MK("stadt")
  MK("stätt")
  MK("stein")
  MK("tal")
  MK("thurn")
  MK("wald")
  MK("weiler")
  MK("werda")
  MK("zell")
;

I started with the original list, but also removed some of its entries. For example, there was a prefix "Rott". I added the suffix "weiler" which is part of many towns in Northrhine-Westphalia, but "Rottweiler" is a dog race, so I replaced "Rott" with "Rothen". I also removed the prefix "Bruns" because "Brunsbrunn" sounds odd. But maybe I didn't see some strange combinations, and someone else can point them out.

I hereby release the list unter the GPL, so the developers can insert it into OpenTTD.

[blumi]

QL!!

Suffix "hausen" is found twice anyway ...

Blumi

[Bjarni]

Nordbach
Sounds like a horse race


Making a set, there all combinations sounds good are really hard. The current english set can make the name "Cunttown"
However, there are so many combinations in the english town names, that it's very rare

[Head]

Oh, maybe we should leave out "Nord" because "Nordsee" is German for "North Sea", which is a really odd name for a city

There are so many bad combinations you don't think about...

[Roman]

I like it!

[Bernhard]

me too, good work, great idea

[mikeya]

I never use German names . But this is great work from the TS.
/me claps .