ITT we keep track of the trolls

[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.)

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

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

Francia? You mean La France?

[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

[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 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

[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.

[epchick]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

burritos are non existent south of Monterrey

That is because burritos (along with many other such "mexican" foods) are an American invention. There is no such thing as a burrito in Mexico, unless you are at an area close to the border.

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

mexican food in Arizona!

*cue k_s's vomit emoticon*

[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.

[DrPhil]

What.the.hell.

[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!

[Drolefille]

This thread is why I <3 GC