Stupid Names

[BalkanTourist]

Checking the names of the Russians and the rebels around them I realized that the creators either had no clue what they were doing or had a lot of fun with the Russian names.
I don't claim to be an expert on Russian language as it is not my native, but the names are pretty rediculous:
First names - Wolfie, Walnut, Tooth, Hen
Complete Names - Billy Goat Walnutson , Lord Henson

P.S. I know names aren't supposed to be translated but who'd name her son Billy Goat???

[ShellShock]

P.S. I know names aren't supposed to be translated but who'd name her son Billy Goat?

Mrs Nanny Goat.

[Ldvs]

Indeed there are some funny names, but one can't blame CA, nobody has managed to release a perfect game yet

[McGowan]

Billy Goat Walnutson? Hmmm... I'll have to remember that. Man, are my kids going to hate me or what... hehehehe

[Kagetora]

This name is not from the game but I'll bet nobody for the life of them can pronounce it correctly.

SCHUYLER!!!!

WHO WILL BUTCHER IT FIRST!

[BalkanTourist]

Shuila

[Kagetora]

Not even close!!!!

[Somebody Else]

Sheila?

[Kagetora]

Nice try but way off still.

Hint, the S.C.H. make a "Sk" sound.

[Count Alfred von Schlieffen]

This is hilarious. I wonder if the same thing is the case with, for instance, Byzantine, Arabic or Hungarian names? Like 'Abdullah son of Windy Camelshaver?

[Tricky Lady]

Hit, the S.C.H. make a "Sk" sound.

*buzzing sound*

Wrong!!
It's definitively NOT a "sk" sound.
Impossible to explain how this name sounds to someone who speaks English.


But let's try.
Must sound a bit like the Spanish "j" (like in "jota") or the Modern Greek "χ".

The "uy" sounds remotely like the Norwegian "ØY" (if my info's correct).

Heh heh, good luck trying to pronounce that!

[Kagetora]

Uh, tricky lady, the SCH definitley make a "sk" sound because the wierd name is mine, and btw, the name SCHUYLER is dutch and is pronounced
S-K-Y-L-E-R.

[katank]

VI names are far more colorful with people named bloodaxe and the like.

[Tricky Lady]

Uh, tricky lady, the SCH definitley make a "sk" sound because the wierd name is mine, and btw, the name SCHUYLER is dutch and is pronounced
S-K-Y-L-E-R.

...when you pronounce it in an Anglo-Dutch way, yes

I just compared it to present-day Dutch (that weird language that I speak) and nowadays we pronounce your name as I tried to describe above.
BTW it means something like "he who hides".

PS. I don't want to argue about your name; I mean it's your name and I suppose *you* know how to pronounce it

[Iguanus Commodus]

Isn't it pronounced "Skuiler" in dutch? Skyler sounds like de Achterhoek to me.

[McGowan]

Sheesh... I went to Eindhoven a few weeks ago and now I swear there are Dutch people everywhere. We had a lady from the Netherlands come to work a week or two ago, and that's rather odd, as I work at a drive in movie theatre in Indiana... then there's people speaking Dutch here... I find out one of my best friends just got a job in HOLLAND, Michigan...

It's really starting to freak me out... the clogs, the clogs are everywhere!!!

Seriously though, the people in der Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (if that's somehow wrong, I apoligize) seemed quite nice, though perhaps a bit over the top with the bicycle riding. As I was only there for a couple of days, I didn't really have a chance to see the country, but I'm sure it's nice as well.

[shogunKatzumoto]

i mean not to intrude but i do know a kid that i met at the local drag racing track and he pronounced his name a "skylar"and just to prove i actually met this kid...lol...
go to points and select saturday street legal.....

www.quakercityraceway.com

lol
also can anyone here tell me why in the botom of my screen it says what i can and can not do...it says i am allowed to post replies but when i try it says i'm not allowed?

[Ldvs]

also can anyone here tell me why in the botom of my screen it says what i can and can not do...it says i am allowed to post replies but when i try it says i'm not allowed?

You can only post in the Entrance Hall and the fora dedicated to the STW/MTW mods as a junior member.

[shogunKatzumoto]

ok i know where the entrance hall is and is the sword dojo the forum for STW? (this is the one i tried to post in)

[katank]

yep, that's the shoggy forum.

wait till you get promoted and then you can post there.

[afrit]

I knew two americans in the US with the name Schuyler and they pronounced it differently. First was S-K-Y-L-E-R and the other SHOO-Y-LER . Both would get offended if I pronounced it the "wrong" way (of course they both massacred my arabic-origin name as well )


Afrit

[Tricky Lady]

I can't resist to replying (again).

In my very humble opinion, the second guy's name gets closest to how it should be pronounced in Dutch.

[ThijsP]

Well in my oppinion the firtst is beter . Nut for you english speakers a combination of the two will be the best something like: shy-ler

[octavian]

Heh heh, good luck trying to pronounce that!

sure, np... i have a rudimentary knowledge of dutch thanks to my grandmother only speaking that language
another name that i hear mispronounced regularly is Aasman

[|OCS|Virus]

I never realy noticed the names before, I usualy play egyptian though. I noticed abu but thats not very funny

[shogunKatzumoto]

speaking of abu...you all remember the monkey from aladin..he was soo cool maybe his name was apu...????

[katank]

apu was the kwiqimart guy on the simpsons. don't remember alladin's monkey

[shogunKatzumoto]

yeah that's right "want a squishy"
ah come on disney's aladin......the little monkey...

[Wychowsikylvwch]

The monkey was abu I believe, and afrit how would one pronounce your name.

On funny faction names my favorite are defiantly the Polish

I have seen a couple that are pretty hard to pronounce for me and my Polish background. Sometimes I suspect they really did slap letters together.

The funniest non-Polish name was the French when I ended up with an assassin named Simon Bolivar (I just anglicised this) ?the author?

[nizar]

Afrit is a name of a Djinn.