Strange town-names...

Post by **jpolzfuss** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:22 pm

... could those be used to make a cool film?!

E.g. "Elend" (German for "calamity", "misery", ...) is a town in Germany (in "Sachsen-Anhalt")

E.g. "Wedding" is one of Berlin's quarters (Berlin, Germany)

E.g. the place where all bad robots will end ("robot-hell" a.k.a. "bot-hell") is a town in Washington, USA, according to Datalight's address:
Datalight, Inc
21520 30th Dr SE
Suite 110
Bothell, WA 98021

;)

Post by **Splee** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:52 pm

http://www.livejournal.com/users/splee/203297.html

Post by **Rollef** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 6:11 pm

http://www.shieldsaroundtheworld.com/origs/P0002131.jpg

This is a classic from Norway.
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Post by **flyingsquirrelsnake** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:36 pm

We have a Hell, Michigan. It's in the Southeast part of the state.

Post by **al77** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:59 pm

i like 'pity me' in Durham :-)

& i have a friend in london who lives on something like 'bellenden road' always raises a smile..

Post by BN » Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:37 am

how about the town called "Dildo" in Canada? thats a good one

Post by **VideoFred** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:48 am

We have a place named... Nazareth, here in Flanders, Belgium.
You do know your bible, do you? :lol:

Fred.

YouTube · Post by **wahiba** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:34 pm

Condom in France.

Mind you, in the UK it is the pronounciation that does not match the spelling:

Towcester - say toaster
Bicester - say Bister
Keighley - say Keithley

and of course Z and we say Zed

Post by BN » Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:37 pm

LOL I forgot that the british say Zed... I wish we did...
You should see the names of places in Ireland, they're pronounced completely differently than they're written. Its insanity...

Post by **woods01** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:46 am

Canada probably has the most strange names. I'm going on vacation to the
Prairies in a few weeks and one of the places I will be going to is Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump.

Post by **tlatosmd** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 3:25 pm

Splee wrote:http://www.livejournal.com/users/splee/203297.html

Darn it, that's what I had in mind as soon as I read JÃƒÂ¶rg's post! :lol:

Rollef wrote:http://www.shieldsaroundtheworld.com/origs/P0002131.jpg
This is a classic from Norway.

Those two absolutely cheerful people under that sign are hilarious! :lol:

Post by **Norseman** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:39 pm

Here in the states you can always pay a visit to:
Bread Loaf, Vermont
Sanitarium, California
Hells Half Acre, Wyoming
Hi Nella, New Jersey
Hump Tulips, Washington
Funk, Nebraska
Little Boars Head, New Hampshire
Napoopoo, Hawaiia
Snow Ball, Arkansas
Village Of The Branch, New York
Talking Rock, Georgia
Why, Arizona
Rabbit Hash, Kentucky
Pee Dee, North Carolina
Nine Times, South Carolina
Chunky, Mississippi
Frost Proof, Florida
Gnaw Bone, Indiana
Cow Island, Colorado
Meddybemps, Maine
Heady Of Grassy, Kentucky
Weeping Water, Nebraska

Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:59 pm

BN wrote:You should see the names of places in Ireland, they're pronounced completely differently than they're written.

I presume you're referring to the Irish-language names? The English transliterations are generally pronounced as spelt.

http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/phonol.htm

Its insanity...

Especially when the people who make the signs don't bother spelling the Irish names properly (presumably because they know no one except me will ever read them)! :roll:

Post by **tlatosmd** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:13 pm

http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/phonol.htm wrote:Palatoalveolars: fricatives: [ÃƒÂ²], [3]

The slender s ist always the same as an unvoiced german "sch" ([ÃƒÂ²]). In transcriptions simply [s'] is used.

So, *that's* why I always think of Scottish Glasgow being pronounced as Glashgow, Celtic s is a fricative kind of Gaumenhauchlaut...

http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/phonol.htm wrote:personal and possessive pronouns (as opposed to English or German!)

That reminded me a bit of the precise distinction in Latin grammar between his/her/its (i. e. someone else's) and his/her/its own but what followed didn't seem like it.

I wonder though, why do they refer that much to German? Proto-Germanic/Teutonic and proto-Celtic are related, but only on an early historical level where they're also related closely to early Latinian (i. e. proto-Latin).

Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:11 pm

tlatosmd wrote:
http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/phonol.htm wrote:That reminded me a bit of the precise distinction in Latin grammar between his/her/its (i. e. someone else's) and his/her/its own but what followed didn't seem like it.

What do you mean, exactly?

http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/phonol.htm wrote:I wonder though, why do they refer that much to German? Proto-Germanic/Teutonic and proto-Celtic are related, but only on an early historical level where they're also related closely to early Latinian (i. e. proto-Latin).

The author of the site is a native German speaker. The English version is a translation from his original German text.