DeltaBlast
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Nova Prospekt is latin, or derived from latin. Prospekt means looking out (ahead in the future). I hope you see how this thus just means prospect in english. New Prospect.
Speculation: It's the name for a (the) prison, but like in WW2, the people don't know it's a prison, they think it's some rehab center or something similar. People with opposing thoughts get in, they pobably get brainwashed or something, and then hey come out as new, with good thoughts, acting like model citizens. From the outside it looks like all is well.
It's named New Prospect because the combine probably advertise it as a good thing. Maybe you have to through it to get to live in C17 or something. Either way, it tries to make the people believe that it gives people the prospect of a new, good life. 1948 anyone?
It's all about propaganda. (it's not a good idea to call something like this "Dead End" when you want to keep up the appearance of something good, now it it?
)
I hope I'm a bit understandable...
Please do not move this to rumours & speculation. This thread is about the translation/meaning of the name. (I speculated to give the translation some meaning)
I'm tired of all the people using babelfish to translate it from german. It is true that a prospekt is a brochure (facts folder.. stupid babelfish) in German, but Nova isn't a German word.
And if this gets moved, the newbies probably don't get to see it. And those are the ones that need to get informed of this
In addition to this, for the second test people: I doubt it has any meaning to the test, other than it's name in HL2. They could just as easily have used city/17 or black/mesa or gordon/freeman.
Speculation: It's the name for a (the) prison, but like in WW2, the people don't know it's a prison, they think it's some rehab center or something similar. People with opposing thoughts get in, they pobably get brainwashed or something, and then hey come out as new, with good thoughts, acting like model citizens. From the outside it looks like all is well.
It's named New Prospect because the combine probably advertise it as a good thing. Maybe you have to through it to get to live in C17 or something. Either way, it tries to make the people believe that it gives people the prospect of a new, good life. 1948 anyone?
It's all about propaganda. (it's not a good idea to call something like this "Dead End" when you want to keep up the appearance of something good, now it it?
)I hope I'm a bit understandable...
Please do not move this to rumours & speculation. This thread is about the translation/meaning of the name. (I speculated to give the translation some meaning)
I'm tired of all the people using babelfish to translate it from german. It is true that a prospekt is a brochure (facts folder.. stupid babelfish) in German, but Nova isn't a German word.
And if this gets moved, the newbies probably don't get to see it. And those are the ones that need to get informed of this
In addition to this, for the second test people: I doubt it has any meaning to the test, other than it's name in HL2. They could just as easily have used city/17 or black/mesa or gordon/freeman.
