Re: Nation names ??
Tien Chi is a Chinese word meaning literally "Heaven and Earth", or figuratively meaning the whole Universe.
I'm guessing the IW devs added the guttoral stop(') to make the words look (and sound?) more "different", but in actual romanized Chinese it's simply written "Tien Chi", with some added lines to specify the intonation.
The pronounciation for "Tien" is something like "Tea + Ann", spoken continuously (somewhat like how "Sigh + Ann" becomes "Cyan"). "Chi" is pronounced as "Chee" (as you pronounce "cheek").
[ March 11, 2004, 14:46: Message edited by: Maximillian ]
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