Talk:United States floating battery Demologos

Name

I assume Demologos means something like the 'will' or the 'logic' 'of the people'? My greek is too rusty, but I think that would be a nice touch to translate that. Especially in light of the ideals of the young republic, which saw itself as enlightened in similar ways. MadMaxDog 10:57, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

"Voice of the people" - actually I meant to include that in the article ;-) The Land 19:07, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

"Many voices" would be my less-than-literal translation, since she "spoke" from many "mouths". A touch of both, perhaps? Also "Judgement of the People" or "Many Judgements" would seem to fit.

But then I don't really know Classical or Modern Greek that well. :) 92.3.50.247 (talk) 13:06, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Etymology

As its been a year since this was talked about, would anyone be willing to throw in an etymology section? WookMuff (talk) 23:06, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

USS

I am no expert on this subject but if the ship was a warship built for the Navy, shouldn't the vessel be called USS Demologos. Just wondering.--$1LENCE D00600D (talk) 22:32, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

The reason is that it was never commissioned as such and so was never officially the USS Demologos.

Similarly, the Monitor never fought the CSS Merrimack because that ship was never commissioned by the Confederate States. The proper name was the CSS Virginia (thus, it cannot be said the Monitor ever fought the Merrimack, because that battle was between the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Southern Forester (talk • contribs) 17:39, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Etymology

Demo- "people" and -logos "logical speech," hence "the logical speech of people," but where the "speech" component means something more abstract like "language," "the language of nature," ergo speech which is psychic or divinely inspired. -ApexUnderground (talk) 01:18, 21 June 2019 (UTC)