# Guide to Troop Name Slang **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Guides\ **Created:** [February 26, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guide-to-troop-name-slang/20580 "2017-02-26T21:49:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annaerith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/annaerith/32/13840_2.png) [@Annaerith](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Annaerith)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guide-to-troop-name-slang/20580/21 "2017-03-11T10:15:36Z")
please add “Gorgo” and “DS” since thats what i always use (never even heard of gotha, also in my linguage “the” doesnt exist so i treat it as a totally useless addition, apparently the same as many other ppl) ---
**Author:** ![Kurokazna](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/kurokazna/32/11246_2.png) [@Kurokazna](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kurokazna)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guide-to-troop-name-slang/20580/22 "2017-03-11T17:30:29Z")
Did I not add DS for Dragon Soul? How the hell could I have missed that? I must be going blind. Also, for the sake of curiosity, what language? Not having the word “the” is a rather unique (and understandable) quirk, and linguistics have always interested me. ---
**Author:** ![actreal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/actreal/32/1945_2.png) [@actreal](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/actreal)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guide-to-troop-name-slang/20580/23 "2017-03-13T01:40:20Z")
> [@Kurokazna](#): > > Also, for the sake of curiosity, what language? Not having the word “the” is a rather unique (and understandable) quirk, and linguistics have always interested me. Not that unique outside Indo-European languages: > [@https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article\_(grammar)#Variation\_among\_languages](#): > > Articles … are formally absent from many of the world’s major languages, such as Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Russian, the majority of Slavic and Baltic languages, Yoruba, and Bantu languages. ---
**Author:** ![Annaerith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/annaerith/32/13840_2.png) [@Annaerith](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Annaerith)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 7:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guide-to-troop-name-slang/20580/24 "2017-03-13T07:35:42Z")
Polish 🙂 i suspect all slavonic languages dont have it? ---
**Author:** ![Beowulf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/beowulf/32/26390_2.png) [@Beowulf](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Beowulf)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guide-to-troop-name-slang/20580/25 "2017-05-15T18:30:07Z")
Necro slash a new troop name. Kerberos = Kirby. Albeit a more evil version of Kirby 😅😅 ---
**Author:** ![Ozball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ozball/32/36110_2.png) [@Ozball](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ozball)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guide-to-troop-name-slang/20580/26 "2017-05-16T02:38:19Z")
Oh is THAT who it’s referring to… I was getting confused 😕 None of the troops I could think of were round and pink… ---
**Author:** ![Beowulf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/beowulf/32/26390_2.png) [@Beowulf](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Beowulf)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guide-to-troop-name-slang/20580/27 "2017-06-05T18:35:46Z")
Again necro. New troop nickname, Queen Aurora as QA or the Rainbow Pony [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guide-to-troop-name-slang/20580.md?page=1)