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Matilda Cecilia Fock
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2014-06-27 19:47:09 UTC
Well, the article explains that the name "Harriet" is inappropiate because it can't be conjugated properly in Icelandic language, which probably would make it bothersome or impossible to use.

So that makes sense... At least to the part of my (romance language speaking) mind that hasn't been blown by the idea of conjugating names.Shocked

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#22 - 2014-06-27 19:51:55 UTC
Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
So that makes sense... At least to the part of my (romance language speaking) mind that hasn't been blown by the idea of conjugating names.Shocked


Are you calling Icelandic a 'romance language'?!?!!

I swear, if my wife sauntered up to me in some skimpy outfit and leaned over and whispered "Fá af tölvunni og fara að breyta olíu í bílnum mínum!" I wouldn't be turned on at all.. id more than likely tie her up and dowse her with holy water.

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Pine Marten
Doomheim
#23 - 2014-06-27 19:55:37 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
So that makes sense... At least to the part of my (romance language speaking) mind that hasn't been blown by the idea of conjugating names.Shocked


Are you calling Icelandic a 'romance language'?!?!!

I swear, if my wife sauntered up to me in some skimpy outfit and leaned over and whispered "Fá af tölvunni og fara að breyta olíu í bílnum mínum!" I wouldn't be turned on at all.. id more than likely tie her up and dowse her with holy water.


Damn thats funny!
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#24 - 2014-06-27 20:03:08 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


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Doreen Kaundur
#25 - 2014-06-27 20:58:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Doreen Kaundur
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
So that makes sense... At least to the part of my (romance language speaking) mind that hasn't been blown by the idea of conjugating names.Shocked


Are you calling Icelandic a 'romance language'?!?!!

I swear, if my wife sauntered up to me in some skimpy outfit and leaned over and whispered "Fá af tölvunni og fara að breyta olíu í bílnum mínum!" I wouldn't be turned on at all.. id more than likely tie her up and dowse her with holy water.



Fá af tölvunni og fara að breyta olíu í bílnum mínum!"

Translation:

"Im wearnig a strap on dong tonight honey, so get the vaseline and brace yourself?" Shocked

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Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley
New Eden Tech Support
#26 - 2014-06-27 21:25:07 UTC
Doreen Kaundur wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
So that makes sense... At least to the part of my (romance language speaking) mind that hasn't been blown by the idea of conjugating names.Shocked


Are you calling Icelandic a 'romance language'?!?!!

I swear, if my wife sauntered up to me in some skimpy outfit and leaned over and whispered "Fá af tölvunni og fara að breyta olíu í bílnum mínum!" I wouldn't be turned on at all.. id more than likely tie her up and dowse her with holy water.



Fá af tölvunni og fara að breyta olíu í bílnum mínum!"

Translation:

"Im wearnig a strap on dong tonight honey, so get the vaseline and brace yourself?" Shocked


vOv I guess you gotta want it...

I'd like to see more of the country than the airport.

Thank me later :D
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#27 - 2014-06-27 21:35:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Felicity Love
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*


You're going to wake up with a goat's head on the pillow next to you, instead of a horse's head as in other countries. You know that, right ?

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CCP Explorer
C C P
C C P Alliance
#28 - 2014-06-27 22:05:20 UTC
Iceland is perfectly normal.

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IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#29 - 2014-06-27 22:33:20 UTC
JITAALT808 wrote:
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.


"You people"...

Wow that sounds like something I've heard before

Like most americans I used to think we were "better" till I went overseas. No one is "better". I wish people would stop being so judgemental of others because their culture is different. Sad
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#30 - 2014-06-27 22:43:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
CCP Explorer wrote:
Iceland is perfectly normal.
When compared to what? Mordor?

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#31 - 2014-06-27 22:49:35 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
CCP Explorer wrote:
Iceland is perfectly normal.
When compared to what? Mordor?



One does not simply walk into Iceland..

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#32 - 2014-06-27 23:01:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
CCP Explorer wrote:
Iceland is perfectly normal.
When compared to what? Mordor?



One does not simply walk into Iceland..
You need to dance your way in.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#33 - 2014-06-28 02:37:35 UTC
they believe gnomes and faeries and things of that nature live in rocks, gardens and trees. eating pancakes and consuming booze. based on this evidence iceland can't be all bad. sounds pretty kick ass to me, actually!
Xenuria
#34 - 2014-06-28 04:49:26 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*



Icelandic names and titles have more vowels in them than a name randomly generated for use in elder scrolls 3 morrowind.


Fun Fact: The continent of Vvardenfell is identical to Iceland in how it was geologically formed. With any luck, when I get to Iceland the ~profane tools~ will be waiting for me at my mountain top base of operations. I will strike the heart and become the goddess I was always destined to be.

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Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#35 - 2014-06-28 04:54:59 UTC
Hahaha, a thread where Americans call another country weird, how ironic.

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Riyria Twinpeaks
Perkone
Caldari State
#36 - 2014-06-28 05:05:28 UTC
Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
Well, the article explains that the name "Harriet" is inappropiate because it can't be conjugated properly in Icelandic language, which probably would make it bothersome or impossible to use.

So that makes sense... At least to the part of my (romance language speaking) mind that hasn't been blown by the idea of conjugating names.Shocked


I sorta agree with this.
But then again, what do they do with names of foreigners? They just never talk about them in their own language? xD

I guess discouraging names which can't be used properly in their language makes sense, sort of .. Denying their citizens passports because of that seems quite harsh, though.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#37 - 2014-06-28 05:16:50 UTC
Felicity Love wrote:
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*


You're going to wake up with a goat's head on the pillow next to you, instead of a horse's head as in other countries. You know that, right ?

Blink


Wouldn't that be a fermented sharks head?
Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#38 - 2014-06-28 11:59:50 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:



One does not simply walk into Iceland..

Given that it's an island I'd assume that the people able to walk there is restricted to one single possibly historical figure.

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Celise Katelo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#39 - 2014-06-28 13:31:17 UTC
Iceland is all about getting smashed out of your face, then & only then will you understand P

Next part is, once you get intoxicated past the point of no return, Oblivion:


"Sshhj... Everyshj ting Icelandishh..shhwillz makesj Sshsense".

To translate you need to rotate this upside down, do a handstand (gets the blood quicker to your head) , while holding a Brennivín & neck it all followed by eating kæstur hákarl, once you start to see letters that look like mountains, then it will read:

"Everything Iceland will make sense"

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Serene Repose
#40 - 2014-06-28 14:24:08 UTC
AT least they finally learned to spell "Las Vegas".

We must accommodate the idiocracy.