The USS George H.W. Bush..

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Originally Posted by DAB

USS Indefatigueable would be a very silly name for a CVN, for one thingits not spelt properly! For the other, having US warships named following the same conventions as British warships would just make NATO manovours a disaster waiting to happen.

AND for the record...Indefatigable is a very illustrious name, thankyou very much. OK, a bit tough to pronounce; but on the other hand its one of the most battlehonoured names in British naval history. Its much better that British Warships are named for sublime concepts and illustrious history and US warships stick to whatever the heck it is that passes for a naming convention in the US. Nothing beats names like HMS Vanguard, HMS Bellerophon and HMS Periwinkle!?

Aw damnit! I put "fatigue" in the middle again! I'm the worst grammer nazi ever Well at least I can pronounce it right; in-dee-fat-ig-abel.

For the record, I meant no offense. I'm an American, so I have to make fun of other countries in an ethnocentrist and occasionally naive fashion. I'm pretty sure it's a citizenship requirement or something.

Personally, I prefer the way the Germans named some of their vessels. Not because
it's cool to name ships after cities and admirals and stuff, but because the names are German-sounding. Everyone knows if you want to gve something a threatning and militaristic-sounding name, you gotta do it in German. Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Graf Zeppelin, Thuringen...... all those sound a lot more intimidating than Periwinkle or Dorsetshire or whatever, although Revenge, Furious, and Warspite are pretty cool, to name a few.

The only problem with German is that sometimes you have to cut letters out to make the word speakable. Words with several, or even dozens of extra letters like sturzkampfflugzeug and panzerkampfwagen can be trimmed to produce cool and pronounceable words like stuka and panzer. It's a little-know fact that the reason U-boats had such a hard time intercepting convoys in WW2 was not because of British intelligence decrypts, but because by the time the radio operator finished sending the message in German, the convoy was often already at its' destination.

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I have a few German 2nd generation immigrant friends, and even they will tell you that German is needlessly complicated at times. Most of the world's longest words are in German, and compound words can often have like, 20 letters.

But English isn't the best language, no sir.


And finally, some cool names:

All the Tribal Classes
HMS Exeter (Super Star Destroyer FTW!)
HMS GLORIOUS (My favourite word)
Any Russian ship (Russian is another good naming language)
USS Oriskany (Sounds Russian)