*is conflicted*
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*posts anyway*
21:14:33 ‹Luxon› I'm pretty sure "Indiana" really does mean "Land of the Indians," though.
21:16:01 ‹Luxon› Just... calling it the "Land of the Flowland People" really points out how off-base that naming process actually was.
21:16:36 ‹The_Vizir› heh... if they wanted to reduce that further... it goes back through Hindu to Indus to Sindh - River Province
21:16:42 ‹The_Vizir› Land of the river province
21:16:42 ‹The_Vizir›
21:16:43 ‹Gaius› Sounds about right."See? This isn't so bad! You guys get your own land! Like you did before we got here. Only you had more of it then. But at least your land holdings have scaled down to match your new population size! Again, our bad about the smallpox. The blankets were kind of a dick move."
21:16:49 ‹The_Vizir› actually
21:17:05 ‹The_Vizir› oh hey
21:17:10 ‹The_Vizir› that is how they reduced it
21:17:19 ‹The_Vizir›
21:17:34 ‹The_Vizir› right-o
21:17:38 ‹Gaius›
21:18:25 ‹The_Vizir› that's where your state's name ultimate derives from, Lux - the Sindh
21:20:38 ‹Luxon› "Also, we're not actually giving you this land to live in. We're going to be the ones living here, we're just naming it after you. Also, we're not actually naming it after you either, we're naming it after the people we thought you were when we first encountered you. And it wasn't even you we encountered, it was some people on an island in the Caribbean."