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In a few years this will probably look the other way around.
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From the middle east thread:viral spiral posted:https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/925490616879816704 Look out, Switzerland! 
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Nov 1, 2017 12:20
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I'm the geographical region Trøndelag renamed Trendheim.
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Nov 1, 2017 12:28
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Cat Mattress posted:From the middle east thread: Good thing Americans are equally hostile to Switzerland and Iran.
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Nov 1, 2017 12:31
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Why is Ronny such a DDR name
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Nov 1, 2017 12:34
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Phlegmish posted:Why is Ronny such a DDR name 
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Nov 1, 2017 12:38
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Nope, Reagans election was the reason for a rapid decline of the names popularity in 1983, but he was probably also the reason for a short uptick in '87/'90. Nonetheless the bulk of GDR-Ronnies were born before anybody east of the Fulda could have ever heard of Reagan.
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Nov 1, 2017 13:22
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Maybe McDonald then?
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Nov 1, 2017 13:29
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I was curious, the only thing I found that seems possible is a musician named Ronny had a chart-topping hit in Germany, 1965 called "kleine Annabelle".
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Nov 1, 2017 21:05
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I don’t know why, but several English and Italian names seem to be or were more popular in the former east Germany than west. Names like Enrico, Maik/Mike, Mandy, Cindy, Peggy... Dooren also seems overrepresented in East Germany, but not sure if it’s a Anglo name.
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Nov 1, 2017 21:26
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Could it possibly be because Eastern Germans idolized whatever scraps of Western or Western-adjacent culture that reached them?
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Falukorv posted:I don't know why, but several English and Italian names seem to be or were more popular in the former east Germany than west. The Italian names like Enrico and Mario likely come from a similar sentiment.
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Nov 1, 2017 21:37
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As for Italian, Italian music and movies were more accessible in the East than their counterparts from other countries, so Italian culture was also probably overrepresented in the GDR?
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Nov 1, 2017 21:58
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Guavanaut posted:OG European racists considered Indian and Arab people (or at least their 'princely caste') to be honorary Caucasians, and East and Southeast Asians to be a different genus of people altogether. I like how Malay gets it's own category. No Irish need apply of course.
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Nov 1, 2017 23:43
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My brother lives in East Germany and according to him calling someone a "Ronny" there is sort of like calling them an idiot. He seemed very surprised and amused that I asked him about that particular name.
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Nov 1, 2017 23:54
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Squalid posted:To some extent but that only explains a small part. Notice the Democratic strength in north Mississippi and across Arkansas, both areas far away from the chalky subsoils of the Cretaceous coast. Legit dixiecrat remnants. Those are getting rarer and rarer.
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Nov 2, 2017 00:02
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Price Check posted:My brother lives in East Germany and according to him calling someone a "Ronny" there is sort of like calling them an idiot. He seemed very surprised and amused that I asked him about that particular name.
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Nov 2, 2017 06:58
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Weird, sounds more like a drunk uncle name to me
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Nov 2, 2017 07:21
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My Swedish dad's first wife's second husband is named Ronny for what that's worth. He's a cool guy I guess but they don't usually come to family events except for weddings.
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Nov 2, 2017 08:47
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I know there are Swedish guys named George but I have literally no idea how Swedes pronounce that because I've only ever seen them mentioned in writing.
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Nov 2, 2017 09:55
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Jerry Cotton posted:I know there are Swedish guys named George but I have literally no idea how Swedes pronounce that because I've only ever seen them mentioned in writing.
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Grey Area posted:I think it's still usually pronounced like Georg (Jee-org, 'ee' meaning a long e sound, not an i) despite the English spelling. Well I had no idea how they pronounced Georg either so thanks 
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Grey Area posted:I think it's still usually pronounced like Georg (Jee-org, 'ee' meaning a long e sound, not an i) despite the English spelling. Huh, I always thought Georg was pronounced "GAY-org." Idk though. My favorite variant is still Djuradj.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I know there are Swedish guys named George but I have literally no idea how Swedes pronounce that because I've only ever seen them mentioned in writing. Seems like "Göran" is the most common variant anyway. According to this, there are 6101 "George", 19396 "Georg" and 81675 "Göran".
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Nov 2, 2017 11:49
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I would assume that Göran is an old derivation from Giorgios while Georg and George are loans from German and English, so not really the same thing.
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Nov 2, 2017 11:52
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Kopijeger posted:Seems like "Göran" is the most common variant anyway. According to this, there are 6101 "George", 19396 "Georg" and 81675 "Göran". Yeah but I already knew how to pronounce Göran  (Because it is so common you see.)
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Nov 2, 2017 11:56
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Gy-oohr-an.
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Some names are just popular in a certain area, like Glenn in Götaland: Or Olof in Middle Sweden:  Sometimes there is an easy explanation though. The distribution of Mikko is basically Finns.jpg:  Mohammed is more common in large cities:  And Nguyen is a common surname in Gnosjö because apparently a whole lot of Vietnamese boat refugees ended up there during the war.  There are more maps here. Jasper Tin Neck fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:And Nguyen is a common surname in Gnosjö because apparently a whole lot of Vietnamese boat refugees ended up there during the war.
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Can all maps of Sweden be colored in a way that doesn't suggest VD? Nice shades of anything that suggests country and not diseased dong.
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Nguyen is also the most common surname in Närpes in Swedish-speaking Western Finland, because a whole bunch of Vietnamese people work at the tomato farms there.
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Ras Het posted:Nguyen is also the most common surname in Närpes in Swedish-speaking Western Finland, because a whole bunch of Vietnamese people work at the tomato farms there. they grow tomatoes in finland? each day we stray further from sun's light
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SaltyJesus posted:they grow tomatoes in finland? each day we stray further from sun's light Well greenhouses innit
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Sounds like Ronny in Germany/Denmark has the same status as Kevin in France then? https://www.thelocal.fr/20170119/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-how-a-hollywood-naming-craze-swept-france
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Albino Squirrel posted:So you're saying Gnosjö is a good place to get Phö ?
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sweek0 posted:Sounds like Ronny in Germany/Denmark has the same status as Kevin in France then? We have names like that in Flanders as well - Cindy, Kelly, Johnny and yes, Kevin. It seems that it was (is?) mostly the lower socioeconomic classes cribbing Anglo names from pop culture, which is interesting. Also, Marina is considered one of the most low-class female names for reasons that are not entirely clear to me.
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Phlegmish posted:We have names like that in Flanders as well - Cindy, Kelly, Johnny and yes, Kevin. It seems that it was (is?) mostly the lower socioeconomic classes cribbing Anglo names from pop culture, which is interesting. Also, Marina is considered one of the most low-class female names for reasons that are not entirely clear to me.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Some names are just popular in a certain area, like Glenn in Götaland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGiyUBITjSg&t=14s
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sweek0 posted:Sounds like Ronny in Germany/Denmark has the same status as Kevin in France then? In France, people with English names is usually a social marker that their parents are from a catégorie socio-culturelle défavorisée, the PC way of saying they're white trash. All the Cindy, Steven, Jennifer, Kevin, and so on can be safely assumed for being from a house where there are no books, where the TV is turned on 24/7 even when nobody watches it. The parents named them after some character in a soap opera, because that's the only thing they know.
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