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Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Guinn on August 30, 2001, 07:55:00 AM: People call the n1k a niki

so lets call a me109 a Melon

or maybe a b17 could be a Bit and 8 bits make a byte.

or maybe call a P47 a Pat?

Anyway something to ponder while people keep calling them nikis lol.

*note* It gets boring at work, and these weird posts appear
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Staga on August 30, 2001, 08:54:00 AM: Sure Pilsner.
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Guinn on August 30, 2001, 09:28:00 AM: lol i rated u as 1 star too ;)
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Staga on August 30, 2001, 09:45:00 AM: Eh I didn't gave you any rating.

Yet... :D
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Staga on August 30, 2001, 09:50:00 AM: BTW Finns used a word "Mersu" for Me-109 'cause its easier to pronounce than Messerschmitt. "Mersu" is also a slang-word for Mercedes-Benz cars here.
Another one was "Pylly-Waltteri" (Butt-Walther) for Brewster Buffalo.

Edit: Forgot H from Messerschmitt...

[ 08-30-2001: Message edited by: Staga ]
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Guinn on August 30, 2001, 10:02:00 AM: hmmm who voted then? :D im gonna turn that thing off heheh

I know some languages find it difficult to pronounce certain words from other languages, i guess thats how accents come about.

I was kinda just kidding about the give planes names ;)
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: brady on August 30, 2001, 01:35:00 PM: Ya the George being called a NIKI used to drive me mad, but i take these pills now and every thing is OK FINE :)
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Fatty on August 30, 2001, 01:50:00 PM: At times I actually make an effort to type n1k instead of nik, but to be honest nik is simply easier/faster to type, and if you're talking about an enemy, might as well give it a feminine suffix and call it niki.

Certainly easier to type than George.
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Grimm on August 30, 2001, 02:27:00 PM: The one I hate is Chog.

I dont believe Corsairs ever went by Chog, Hog maybe and a few others, but never Chog.

I confess after hearing Niki enough I will use it sometimes, but I dont like too.
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Staga on August 30, 2001, 02:41:00 PM: Well you could call it Niki or even Datsun but its still N1K-2J.
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: AG Sach on August 30, 2001, 04:10:00 PM: actually its a george but who cares. When you say george in the MA very few of these so called "aircraft historians" know what the hell we are talking about. SO please call it a George, because N1ki or whatever sounds way to girlish for a plane that was an awesome ride.
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Karnak on August 30, 2001, 04:27:00 PM: Actually, it is an N1K2-J Shiden-Kai.

Or, a "George 21" if you want the American nickname for it.

George was the American nickname for the N1K1-J Shiden.
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Staga on August 30, 2001, 05:20:00 PM: What if we just call it Niki ?
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Buzzbait on August 30, 2001, 05:27:00 PM: S!

How about the translation of its Japanese name:

`Violet Lightning`

Sounds quite girly-man to me...

Fits the drivers of this plane.

Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahaha!!!!!
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: brady on August 30, 2001, 06:11:00 PM: Violet Lightning....hmmm,beautiful and deadly, seams approparate, perhaps in the west we tend to dismiss the coupling of beauity and function in our venacular in so obvious a way. While in the east it is more common.
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Fastbikkel on August 31, 2001, 08:15:00 AM: Another one.

I couldn't live with the word Zeke.
I figured it was some plane that is not in AH.
But it is the zero!?!
Why call it Zeke when it is called Zero. It's the same ammount of letters.

I never use Zeke, i think it's dumb. Zero is much more distinct for me.

Good threat.
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Mathman on August 31, 2001, 08:49:00 AM: Fast,

In WW2, the US used codenames for the Japanese planes. Fighters were given male names (i.e. Zeke for A6M and George for N1K) and bombers/patrol planes and the like were given female names (such as Kate for B5N or Judy for D4Y). The reason for this was mainly that it made plane identification easier and the US had little information on the Japanese planes.

There is a modern equivalent. NATO calls Russian planes by other names. Flanker, Fulcrum, Flogger, etc...
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: flakbait on August 31, 2001, 09:32:00 AM: Grimm,

Chog, like niki, is radio-buffer short hand. Chog is just short for C model Hog. Lanc is short for Lancaster, Jug is short for P-47, mudstain is....not short but a nice insult to any Pony driver. I use it to describe the modern variant of a similarly-named Ford car too. :D You get used to it after a while, or at least most people do.

"Niki" drives Pyro crazy, so if you see him in the arena throw a call out on Channel 1: "Guys! Pyro's in the niki!!". Just cause he's workin at HTC doesn't mean you can't give him a ribbing every now and then! :)

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Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: EDO43 on August 31, 2001, 01:05:00 PM: NATO refers to Russian Fighters as Flanker, Fulcrum, Flagon, etc. Russian bombers are referred to by names like Bear, Bison, etc. You may already know this but for those who don't, notice that all the fighters start with the letter "f" and all the bombers start with the letter "b". I have no idea what NATO refers to Russian recce planes as.

Not all zeros are called zekes. The A6M3 model 32 (clipped wing version) is code named Hamp. The floatplane version is codenamed rufe. I can't remember if there was another name for the A6M5 series zero or not but I'm thinking that it was just referred to as a zero. :)
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: AKSWulfe on August 31, 2001, 01:08:00 PM: N1K2 going into hyper-drive flight (http://geocities.com/weissdr1/screenshots.html)
-SW
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on August 31, 2001, 02:11:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Staga:
BTW Finns used a word "Mersu" for Me-109 'cause its easier to pronounce than Messerschmitt. "Mersu" is also a slang-word for Mercedes-Benz cars here.
Another one was "Pylly-Waltteri" (Butt-Walther) for Brewster Buffalo.

Edit: Forgot H from Messerschmitt...

[ 08-30-2001: Message edited by: Staga ]

It's Merco for the Frenchs (Mercedes - Benz).
And the SU25 is the
Frog Foot :D

[ 08-31-2001: Message edited by: SFRT - Frenchy ]
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Karnak on August 31, 2001, 04:42:00 PM: Keep in ind that most US pilots still called them Zeros, regardless of what our official name for them was. The Zero was the one Japanese aircraft that we knew the Japanese name for, and it was a simple, easy to remember name. I think Zeke gets used more in AH by far than it was in WWII combat.
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: juzz on August 31, 2001, 06:28:00 PM: "Following limited service in Japan, the A6M3s were deployed to the New Guinea/Solomons area in the late spring of 1942 in preparation for the invasion of Australia. Initially, the Allies thought that the A6M3 was an entirely new fighter because of its squared-off wingtips, and Capt. Frank McCoy's team at the Directorate of Intelligence of the Allied Air Forces, Southwest Pacific Area, assigned it the code name HAP, after the nickname of General Henry Arnold, the USAAF's Chief of Staff. The General was not amused, and had Capt. McCoy called onto the carpet to explain just what he was up to. Capt McCoy seems to have survived this particular episode, but the code name of the new square-winged fighter was quietly changed to HAMP. When Allied intelligence finally recognized that the aircraft was not a new design but was actually a modified version of the ZEKE, it was renamed ZEKE 32."

From J.Baugher's A6M article here: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/a6m.html (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/a6m.html)
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: 2Late4U on August 31, 2001, 07:47:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Grimm:
The one I hate is Chog.

I dont believe Corsairs ever went by Chog, Hog maybe and a few others, but never Chog.

I confess after hearing Niki enough I will use it sometimes, but I dont like too.

Crazy thing is for some reason, my brain doesn't see Chog as a word, but rather C-Hog (ie see-hog). I have no Idea why, prob has something to due with seeing Dhog for so long and not being ablt to pronounce it "DOG"
:eek:
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: bigUC on September 01, 2001, 06:07:00 AM: I call the n1k-2j/niki veeery nasty things when i'm alone in the room (ex: jaevla ufo/ helvetes idiotfly :) ). I don't care if it's called niki, in my vocabulary (limited) it's already listed as a four-letter word. BTW, calling the b-17 "bit" was cool - i'm gonna do that!
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: john9001 on September 01, 2001, 09:31:00 AM: nicknames must be earned not invented

the "jeep" was named General Purpose Vehicle or GP for short, which the GI's soon pronounced "jeep", by the way GI stands for Goverment Issue.
"buff", slang for bomber, comes from the B-52 and means "big ugly fat f***er
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: -ammo- on September 01, 2001, 09:41:00 AM: I know that the term "niki" is a real peave to pyro :)
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: -tronski- on September 01, 2001, 09:54:00 AM: MR SULU...Care factor zero

Tronsky
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: AN on September 01, 2001, 09:58:00 AM: Nik never bothered me too much.

I find CHog and DHog fairly annoying.

But at least we don't have the P-38J with everyone running around calling it the 'PJ'.

anRky
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Pyro on September 01, 2001, 10:49:00 AM: "Niki" sounds like the stage name of a stripper, not a plane.
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Toad on September 01, 2001, 11:09:00 AM: ...and Pyro would probably know about that.

<G,D,R>
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Animal on September 01, 2001, 11:41:00 AM: Dont say niki to pyro at the con if hes in a bad mood after a few drinks.

he will kick your bellybutton and then ban you from AH
Title: N1k called a niki
Post by: Guinness on September 01, 2001, 03:36:00 PM: rofl!!! :D