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Iceland is Weird

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JITAALT808
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-06-27 14:49:54 UTC
Apparently there are only 1,853 female and 1,712 male names that are legal in Iceland. Harriet, apparently, isn't one of them.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/59181/illegal-name-costs-icelandic-harriet-her-passport

You people are weird.
Dally Lama
Doomheim
#2 - 2014-06-27 14:51:56 UTC
Such a backwards way of thinking. No wonder they are.... well, Iceland.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#3 - 2014-06-27 14:58:58 UTC
Careful what you say about them,
their traditional hangover cure involves
beards, axes, longboats, your stuff and your women.
My ginger beard can confirm that this has been the case for some time.

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CCP Ytterbium
C C P
C C P Alliance
#4 - 2014-06-27 14:59:30 UTC
It's ok, it's not like foreigners like me or you can pronounce those names properly anyway :P

Some of them are such a mouthful we need to use surnames / nicknames. Ah yes and good luck trying to call a taxi into a street name. Remember that Icelandic volcano that bothered the rest of Europe for a while? They couldn't call it "MegaBadAngryVolcano" or "Mount Doom" or something like that, they had to call it "Eyjafjallajökull".

Seriously, it's like speaking Klingon family names, but without the nice perks (no bladed weapons, no cool uniforms or cloaking device). Twisted


*starts running away like a pure Frenchman before some Icelandic people in the office catches that*
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#5 - 2014-06-27 15:01:48 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Careful what you say about them,
their traditional hangover cure involves
beards, axes, longboats, your stuff and your women.


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Chapmonious Hunter
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2014-06-27 15:36:15 UTC
CCP Ytterbium wrote:
It's ok, it's not like foreigners like me or you can pronounce those names properly anyway :P

Some of them are such a mouthful we need to use surnames / nicknames. Ah yes and good luck trying to call a taxi into a street name. Remember that Icelandic volcano that bothered the rest of Europe for a while? They couldn't call it "MegaBadAngryVolcano" or "Mount Doom" or something like that, they had to call it "Eyjafjallajökull".

Seriously, it's like speaking Klingon family names, but without the nice perks (no bladed weapons, no cool uniforms or cloaking device). Twisted


*starts running away like a pure Frenchman before some Icelandic people in the office catches that*



I just call it "The Volcano that erupted so violently lightning was was produced"
Mythrandier
Solace Corp
#7 - 2014-06-27 15:43:00 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Careful what you say about them,
their traditional hangover cure involves
beards, axes, longboats, your stuff and your women.
My ginger beard can confirm that this has been the case for some time.


My ginger beard agrees.


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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#8 - 2014-06-27 15:44:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Ralph King-Griffin
Chapmonious Hunter wrote:


I just call it "The Volcano that erupted so violently lightning was was produced"




In Ireland we called it "that feckin volcano"

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CCP Falcon
#9 - 2014-06-27 15:49:57 UTC
I can confirm, after living here for a while, that Iceland is weird.

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Pine Marten
Doomheim
#10 - 2014-06-27 15:52:53 UTC
So when a child is born, you get a book listing all the legal names and u must choose? Bet there are no babies named Mercedes or Lexus or Cadillac hahahaha
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#11 - 2014-06-27 16:04:14 UTC
Also, given the population size, this shouldn't surprise anyone

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KIller Wabbit
MEME Thoughts
#12 - 2014-06-27 16:12:42 UTC
The Viking in this is so ingrained - the article implies that about 50 new names are approved each year. That sounds to me like a rate match for new names that would have been introduced by the Viking raiding parties each year.

"Of those, approximately half are rejected under a 1996 act which aims to preserve the Icelandic language." So radical! Like ya know, they didn't understand "The Borg", a.k.a Valley Girl English.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#13 - 2014-06-27 16:19:02 UTC
If only CCP would take a cue from the Icelandic govt and implement an approved list for this game.

I'd personally travel to Iceland and kiss the monument if I didn't have to have my eyes abused by the ignorant, racist, leet and just plain stupid names I see every time I log in.

Mr Epeen Cool
Caviar Liberta
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2014-06-27 16:38:57 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:
If only CCP would take a cue from the Icelandic govt and implement an approved list for this game.

I'd personally travel to Iceland and kiss the monument if I didn't have to have my eyes abused by the ignorant, racist, leet and just plain stupid names I see every time I log in.

Mr Epeen Cool


I'd have my name changed to fyrirfara mér. According to google translate it means unspeakable.
Velicitia
XS Tech
#15 - 2014-06-27 17:14:12 UTC
CCP Ytterbium wrote:
no ... cloaking device Twisted


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BLACK-STAR
#16 - 2014-06-27 17:41:54 UTC
I want to trek there Arrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzDkpYiLoI

There is a lot of beautiful things in Iceland nowhere else in the world. The Aurora Borealis must be amazing to see there.
Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#17 - 2014-06-27 18:07:56 UTC
You can could just call the volcano, Iceland, and not be wrong. Although technically we should be calling Iceland, Lýðveldið Ísland... so...lulz.

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Doreen Kaundur
#18 - 2014-06-27 18:33:59 UTC
Weird?

You dont know weird until you have lived in NYC. People there are nuts.

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Caviar Liberta
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2014-06-27 18:41:06 UTC
Doreen Kaundur wrote:
Weird?

You dont know weird until you have lived in NYC. People there are nuts.


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The Troll Bridge
#20 - 2014-06-27 19:34:42 UTC
Yes. Because a girl cannot be named Harriet, THAT is why Iceland is weird.


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