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Since we are talking about names. Both my brother and I were named after West Indian cricketers from the 1970s. Me after an elegant left handed batsman and my younger brother after a demon fast bowler. To this day it breaks my fathers heart that my brother grew up to be an opening batsman, and I grew into a handy medium pace bowler.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Since we are talking about names. Tell me you're from an ex-Empire country without telling me etc.
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May 13, 2022 05:33
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My parents gave me 4 names, 1 first + 3 middle and I won bronze once in a bowling competition in Sardinia, does that count? What are we competing in btw?
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:My parents gave me 4 names, 1 first + 3 middle and I won bronze once in a bowling competition in Sardinia, does that count? What are we competing in btw? no surname? badass
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May 13, 2022 06:28
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Carthag Tuek posted:no surname? badass That was the government, I don't respect their authority (death to kings)
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:That was the government, I don't respect their authority (death to kings) death to kings.
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May 13, 2022 06:36
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I thought we agreed Bernadotte's tattoo was apocryphal
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May 13, 2022 08:16
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I thought we agreed Bernadotte's tattoo was apocryphal we agreed on no such thing! anyway, canon will be decided by future generations so we might as well shove more material in there
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May 13, 2022 08:36
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Carthag Tuek posted:death to kings. Now THAT'S a slogan I can get behind!
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I thought we agreed Bernadotte's tattoo was apocryphal Your face is apocryphal!
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May 13, 2022 09:32
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Who cares about the tattoo's corporeal status when Bernadotte showed true commitment to the cause, in the end. It's a good tattoo to have too
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FreudianSlippers posted:Your face is apocryphal! Clearasil helped me with that.
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May 13, 2022 12:09
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Who cares about the tattoo's corporeal status when Bernadotte showed true commitment to the cause, in the end. It's a good tattoo to have too in that case i will not post the photo of king frederik with the sailor tattoos (implicit that i would rather post a photo of them all guillo—
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May 13, 2022 14:15
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Who cares about the tattoo's corporeal status when Bernadotte showed true commitment to the cause, in the end. It's a good tattoo to have too he didn't guillotine himself
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May 13, 2022 14:26
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My last name translated to singer in Latin. Ironically, none of us can sing worth a drat
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Platystemon posted:IMO you should not name kids after figures from religion known for being wicked, whether or not their name happens to sound like butthole. Yeah, pick virtuous things instead which is why we were given Witchfinder General Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer.
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May 13, 2022 15:50
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Nth Doctor posted:Yeah, pick virtuous things instead which is why we were given Witchfinder General Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer. I just want more Notwithstanding Griswolds. Is that too much to ask?! ... Oh. I see.
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Platystemon posted:IMO you should not name kids after figures from religion known for being wicked, whether or not their name happens to sound like butthole. If I want to name my kid Judas Herod I should be allowed to do so 
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May 13, 2022 16:50
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Caiaphas would be a baller name
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You can't make your name quite that awesome, but Witch Hunt is ten dollars on Steam if anyone wants to RP as the sort of dude who would be called Witchfinder-General Notwithstanding Griswold.
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my plan is to get as many twins as possible and name them after the approved unisex name list until they freak out about it and throw me in jail
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Carthag Tuek posted:my plan is to get as many twins as possible and name them after the approved unisex name list until they freak out about it and throw me in jail The Great Danish Twin Robbery.
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Alhazred posted:The Great Danish Twin Robbery. more a reveal than a robbery but yeah, itll be great
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My great grandpa wanted to change his surname. He went to the local priest, as was customary back then, and said: "I'd like to change my surname to Mountain*." And the priest shook his head and said: "Oh no no no, doesn't that seem a bit too ambitious? I think a Hill** will do for you." And that's how our family surname came to be. (* ** not the real name, but follows the same logic.)
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Nth Doctor posted:Yeah, pick virtuous things instead which is why we were given Witchfinder General Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer. You name daughters after virtues. Prudence, Charity and so on. The sons, you name after… HEY, BESTIALITY, CUT THAT OUT!
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Doll House Ghost posted:My great grandpa wanted to change his surname. He went to the local priest, as was customary back then, and said:  I'll change my name to OlympusFuckingMons if I want to you gently caress
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Sir, you would not be an upstanding citizen in Jante. What a shameful lack of shame https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 19:54 on May 13, 2022 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:my plan is to get as many twins as possible and name them after the approved unisex name list until they freak out about it and throw me in jail Go to your room, Approved Unisex Name List III.
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Wouldn't be the worst name I've seen
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Platystemon posted:Go to your room, Approved Unisex Name List III. YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD
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In Sweden (and im guessing the other scandi countries) it was also common to have a so called "gårdsnamn" (=homestead name) as a kind of cognomen to differentiate people in a locality with common patronyms. Similarly, cognomens were often added to soldiers in the allotment system. Often these were bellicose names but not always. And as surnames become more common during the latter half of the 19th century and patronymic conventions were finally outlawed in 1966 many of these homestead and soldier names became inherited as fixed surnames. Some titles could also be used for this function. Commoners who entered the priesthood got proper surnames, often latinised. How for example Carl Linnaeus got his surname, from a peasant and clerical lineage. His father made Linnaeus a fixed surname when he enrolled at university, named after a lime tree growing in his family homestead. Falukorv has a new favorite as of 13:47 on May 14, 2022 |
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Falukorv posted:In Sweden (and im guessing the other scandi countries) it was also common to have a so called "gårdsnamn" (=homestead name) as a kind of cognomen to differentiate people in a locality with common patronyms. Similarly, cognomens were often added to soldiers in the allotment system. Often these were bellicose names but not always. And as surnames become more common during the latter half of the 19th century and patronymic conventions were finally outlawed in 1966 many of these homestead and soldier names became inherited as fixed surnames. Norwegian surnames can more or less be divided into two haves: Homestead names and fixed patronyms. Occupational surnames like Miller is pretty uncommon and can be traced back to german immigration.
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Falukorv posted:gård The history of that word and its cousins is fun. Damned scandinavians, sailing everywhere, making us use their words. The ultimate prize must go to Nizhniy Novgorod. Settle down New Newtown. We get it.
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It kind of freaked me out when I realized that "yard" and "garden" were basically the same word
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BRB, painting a GARD SARD sign.
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Iceland was almost called Garðarshólmi (Garðar's Island) because one of the first settlers, albeit a non permanent one, was a man called Garðar Svavarsson. Though not a garður in the same sense as Kænugarður (Kiev), Garðaríki (Novgorod), or Mikligarður (Constantinople) the personal name is from the same root of fortress or walled town. In modern Icelandic garður is just a garden or park. For example the amusement park/zoo in Reykjavík is Fjölskyldu- og húsdýragarðurinn (family and domestic animal garden).
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:That was the government, I don't respect their authority (death to kings) Speaking of kings. Eric of Pomerania had a pretty sweet thing going on. After the death of his adoptive mother, queen Margaret I, he became the king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. So naturally he found a way to gently caress it up for himself. Decided that ruling over three countries was not enough he went to war with Germany in order to retake Schleswig. Everyone hated this war because Eric raised the taxes and introduced a toll on ships travelling through Øresund (a straight between Sweden and Denmark). Soon nobles and peasants in all three countries revolted against him and he had to abdicate. Eric then spent the last ten years of his life as a pirate.
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Alhazred posted:Speaking of kings. Eric of Pomerania had a pretty sweet thing going on. After the death of his adoptive mother, queen Margaret I, he became the king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. So naturally he found a way to gently caress it up for himself. Decided that ruling over three countries was not enough he went to war with Germany in order to retake Schleswig. Everyone hated this war because Eric raised the taxes and introduced a toll on ships travelling through Øresund (a straight between Sweden and Denmark). Soon nobles and peasants in all three countries revolted against him and he had to abdicate. Eric then spent the last ten years of his life as a pirate. King of three (and half, hello Finland) countries? Hard work. Pirate prince of Gotland? Easy, chill, fun, lucrative. I know what job I'd choose.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The history of that word and its cousins is fun. Damned scandinavians, sailing everywhere, making us use their words. The ultimate prize must go to Nizhniy Novgorod. Settle down New Newtown. We get it. that's lower newtown tautological places are fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpenhow_Hill
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Glendale Valley The La Brea Tar Pits
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