ITT we keep track of the trolls

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Cringe @ the bolded. I think the proper name of places or people shouldn't be translated. I'll never call El Paso the pass or Las Vegas the meadows or the state of Montana the mountain

Might seem anal of me, but it's always been a pet peeve of mine.

So you call Japan Nippon and France Francia and Germany Deutscheland, right? Because it's not right to translate.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

So you call Japan Nippon and France Francia and Germany Deutscheland, right? Because it's not right to translate.

Bwah ha ha ha!

Anyway, I really missed my Mexican food in Baltimore. We had some surprisingly good, REAL mexican food in Shreveport, LA, along with the usual Tex-Mex that you'd expect in a city that's practically in Texas.

BTW, we Baton Rouge natives call it Red Stick all the time, and there are stores, ie. Red Stick Sports named after the city. But I do cringe when people say Baton Rouge with a French accent.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Shreveport, LA....a city that's practically in Texas.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Ha...that's what we think about it, too! It's so much more Texas than it is Louisiana. I've lived there for ten years. They try hard to be Louisiana, but they aren't (except for the whole 13 miles inside the Louisiana border thing.)

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Ha...that's what we think about it, too! It's so much more Texas than it is Louisiana. I've lived there for ten years. They try hard to be Louisiana, but they aren't (except for the whole 13 miles inside the Louisiana border thing.)

I'm glad that Louisiana keeps it off our hands

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

So you call . . . France Francia . . . , right?

Francia? You mean La France?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Francia? You mean La France?

Sorry...too much Copa Mundial Futbol on Univision.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Sorry...too much Copa Mundial Futbol on Univision.

I figured as much.

I'm just wondering what we're supposed to call Switzerland: la Suisse, la Svizzera, la Svizra, die Schwiez, d'Schwiiz or Helvetia?

And does not translating names mean we should all be calling ourselves Hellenic Letter Societies?

[agzg]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I figured as much.

I'm just wondering what we're supposed to call Switzerland: la Suisse, la Svizzera, la Svizra, die Schwiez, d'Schwiiz or Helvetia?

And does not translating names mean we should all be calling ourselves Hellenic Letter Societies?

Die Schweiz, duh. Bern is the capital - part of the German-speaking region.

If you're in Geneva, however, it's la Suisse.

For what it's worth, in 2000, about three quarters of the population spoke German primarily:


/language nerd
/taking the joke too far

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And does not translating names mean we should all be calling ourselves Hellenic Letter Societies?

No I'm talking about when people I know call me by the spanish version of my name, drives me crazy! That's not what my momma named me.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

No I'm talking about when people I know call me by the spanish version of my name, drives me crazy! That's not what my momma named me.

Well, there is a difference when it's a person's name versus the name of a place or country.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by agzg

Well, there is a difference when it's a person's name versus the name of a place or country.

Yep, a big difference.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by agzg

Well, there is a difference when it's a person's name versus the name of a place or country.

I guess I should of clarified.

EP Chick- Ditto on AZ mexican food being nasty, I used to live in Phoenix and their food doesn't even come close to what we got down here!

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

So you call Japan Nippon and France Francia and Germany Deutscheland, right? Because it's not right to translate.

Actually I do with Deutscheland, Francia, and Espana