Appropriate abbreviation for 10000 Islands?

[HumanSanity]

Look, I want a good survey on this question. Anecdotally, it seems XKI is most popular, but I personally have been preferring 10KI or "Islands" lately. What does everyone else think?

[Marxist Germany]

XKI is better than 10KI because having numbers in acronyms is jarring.

[Control]

"The Islands" is quite good but I prefer XKI because it seems more stately/dignified/official than 10KI and therefore more suitable for a region of this size, age, and complexity of government.

[Haivon]

I prefer XKI.

[Louisistan]

Now that our CE is Irish how about "These emerald isles". Not an acronym per se, but ...

[Kohnhead]

I do like XKI as it seems very dignified and it seems to have a good history. I wouldn't know about the history as I'm new but it seems like that's just the name everyone calls it. Though Islands seems pretty cool as well.

[San Kalungsod Saludong]

Apr 21, 2020 12:59:50 GMT -5 Kohnhead said:

I do like XKI as it seems very dignified and it seems to have a good history. I wouldn't know about the history as I'm new but it seems like that's just the name everyone calls it. Though Islands seems pretty cool as well.

I like that one as well.

[San Kalungsod Saludong]

I hope the newbies take to these ideas.

[Klopstock]

I use TKI, 10KI and XKI interchangeably, probably in that order.

[Jabberwocky]

I, too, use them interchangeably, along with The Islands. Everyone knows just what I mean.

[Paffnia]

All of XKI, TKI, and 10KI are each a weird amalgamation of different ways to abbreviate—Roman numerals (X), Arabic numbers (10), metric system (K), and first letters of words (T and I). I prefer XKI mostly because it's always been most common here, I think, and it's what I learned. X is also on the regional flag. But because of all this weirdness, I also use "the Islands," etc.

If we actually wanted to abbreviate 10,000 in Roman numerals, that's tricky. I believe that the Romans didn't actually have a symbol for numbers above 1,000, so 10,000 would be MMMMMMMMMM (MMMMMMMMMMI would be quite the abbreviation!). In post-Roman times, X with a line over it (X̅) has been used for 10,000 (used on the regional flag). But then there's also this wonderful symbol—ↂ—which I can only really find on Wikipedia. With any of these, though, sticking an I on the end for Islands would be confusing because it could also read as a 1 in Roman numerals.

[Paffnia]

And then there are the debates over "the 10000 Islands" versus just "10000 Islands" and over using a comma in 10(,)000 or not.

[HumanSanity]

Apr 21, 2020 15:10:56 GMT -5 Paffnia said:

All of XKI, TKI, and 10KI are each a weird amalgamation of different ways to abbreviate—Roman numerals (X), Arabic numbers (10), metric system (K), and first letters of words (T and I). I prefer XKI mostly because it's always been most common here, I think, and it's what I learned. X is also on the regional flag. But because of all this weirdness, I also use "the Islands," etc.

If we actually wanted to abbreviate 10,000 in Roman numerals, that's tricky. I believe that the Romans didn't actually have a symbol for numbers above 1,000, so 10,000 would be MMMMMMMMMM (MMMMMMMMMMI would be quite the abbreviation!). In post-Roman times, X with a line over it (X̅) has been used for 10,000 (used on the regional flag). But then there's also this wonderful symbol—ↂ—which I can only really find on Wikipedia. With any of these, though, sticking an I on the end for Islands would be confusing because it could also read as a 1 in Roman numerals.

I'll be honest, I've never thought about it before in terms of being an "amalgamation of different ways to abbreviate" but now it seems nothing could be right.
I think Klopstock is the only person I've ever seen use "TKI". Is that maybe an older abbreviation that has fallen out of favor?

Apr 21, 2020 15:14:56 GMT -5 Paffnia said:

And then there are the debates over "the 10000 Islands" versus just "10000 Islands" and over using a comma in 10(,)000 or not.

"10000 Islands" > "the 10000 Islands"
"10000" > "10,000"
(And I believe doing it the other way is actually just wrong. The region's name on NationStates is "10000 Islands".)

[Dorab]

I prefer XKI because it sticks with only letters. "The 10000 Islands" seems like it was a lot more popular early in XKI history. I would use 10,000 Islands, but since in the region title it is 10000 Islands I always use that. The main reason I would prefer 10,000 Islands is because I think it would be easier for new members to find.