#anglicized

[mapsontheweb]

Names of Brazilian cities if they were anglicized

[tenth-sentence]

Later in the war people were forbidden from anglicising a foreign-sounding name – as the royal family did, changing from Saxe-Coburg to Windsor in 1917.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[kujakumai]

rereading yugioh while outlining a transfem atem au and just realized that bakura is not an egyptian name. so like. did thief king just steal bakura's name for himself. is the thief king also nameless. what the fuck is going on with bakura??? i humbly ask you this because the wiki is making me want to tear my hair out and you are the person i trust most will all yugioh takes forever

anyway fistbump to you fellow gravekeeper player. we stan anti-meta and giggling when the graveyard is locked down amen

The general consensus is that KT indeed intended his name to actually be Bakura and it's a coincidence. There's a couple posts floating around which transcribe it into hieroglyphs to get some pretty on-point meanings. The alternative option would be to suggest that TKB's name was lost and Atem's memories are just shoving in the known placeholder, but I don't know there's a ton of evidence for that. I think his name is just Bakura.

It's worth noting that Karim and Mahad aren't ancient Egyptian names either, as far as I know they're both Arabic-derived names about 2000 years before the Arab conquest of Egypt. And if it wasn't planned, KT just got really lucky with Set(o). From what I understand based on what Japanese speakers have said, there are several character names in Yugioh that are sort of bizarre and don't make a ton of sense as written names at all (Mokuba primarily, but I've also been told that the way "Ryou" is written is really weird?) so I don't think "KT gave this character a weird or ahistorical name" is necessarily a reason to believe that name is inaccurate.

So. Yeah his name is probably Bakura and yeah that's weird but when it comes to naming characters KT just followed his heart. Also ty I have been playing this evil stall/mill deck for a while but I should go back to gravekeepers for a bit just for fun again

[burningparadiseduck]

New characters coming in 4.4 !!!

[fallingtowers]

scholars and historians looked at this period of history and were like what if we went as hard as we possibly could. what if we gave it not one or two but THREE of the best names imaginable

[funguslesbian]

If I have to see one more person talk shit about the Irish language I'm going to lose it. If I have to see one more person call the Irish language Gaelic I am going to lost it. If I have to see one more person make fun of the name Siobhán specifically I am going to lose it.

[froody]

I’m thinking about Ruairí Ó Máille (evilly anglicized to Roy O’Malley upon immigration) for my OC born in County Galway in 1842 but idk about that one yet. I was going to name him Seán/John but I dont want him to have to share a first name with two Red Dead Redemption characters. I am scraping the bottom of the barrel looking for Gaeilge male names of the 1840s that had anglicizations that wouldn’t be too unique but weren’t overly common either. I say this lovingly and as the descendent of Irish immigrants, like 50% of the male population of Ireland was named a variation of John at that point in history.

[handweavers]

i'd become one of those white irish diaspora who act like being irish makes them not white and super oppressed and racialized even though they live in the USA/Canada in the 21st century

[whatudottu]

Something something Decepticon recruitment (+physical exam) yada yada putting my Malay twins headcanon to good use and making names (and a non-typical matrilineal last name as opposed to a patrilineal last name) for them :P

Old fanfiction as well as echo chambering myself I have got some headcanons in my mind that do not make surface level sense but have Syakir and Darwesh bin Kalsom!

[mulherergativa]

Metham, Physiognomy 149; a Middle English text with the singular 'they' c. 1450

[aliteral-ghost]

This writing piece was inspired by this art by @azaleastobloom, mostly the pose used and their name for e!False (obsessed, by the way) and also @theminecraftbee's vault hunters aufest fic for the idea of children in the vaults in the first place. Lmao I had fun.

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She’s so much smaller than you remember. This only reaffirms the doubts you had earlier, about taking a child into a Vault. Companions make it dangerous enough, always underfoot, and making them a child will only muddy things more.

She looks at you, all spindly arms and legs, and you realize with a jolt of horror that this is not you. See, Iskall had said this event (special for today!) was in an attempt by the Vault Gods to allow the players to reconnect with their inner child, by forcing every hunter to play with themselves as a child. But something must have gone wrong in the portal, somehow, because although those eyes (just barely a shade darker) are not your own you recognize them.

You and your twin are not identical, of course, close enough that the untrained eye wouldn’t notice, close enough that you were able to pass as one person for nearly ten years, but you are not identical. And this is not you, sitting folded up as if origami. You were never this lanky. You caught up to her as you grew older, but she shot up first.

“Vera?” You ask slowly, using the name that she would have known at this age. “Uh… hi?”

She widens her eyes at you, in surprise or maybe fear. You don’t look the same as you did at this age, face longer and with no baby fat, taller, wearing strange armor that covers your eyes and face.

“Do you know where we are?” She asks, and you almost laugh. Of course she wouldn’t know. Her eyes are wild, terrified, looking around at the Vault room and hallway that leads off it as if trying to find an exit. There won’t be one, of course, there won’t be one until (as the popup at the edge of your vision says) you collect enough elixir. Should be easy enough.

“We are in a Vault,” you say slowly. “You were meant to help me get out, although I’m not sure Iskall thought this through very well.”

She-Vera-is still sitting on the ground, having chosen to fold her legs up to her chest and hug them. That’s something you recognize, a sign that she is very much not interested in moving from this spot, thank you very much, and that it will take physical force to move her from the tiny ball she’s wrapped herself in.

You are not interested in picking her up like a sack of potatoes, because that feels dangerous to do in a Vault with many many mobs and a child (and you have strong words to say to Iskall later about this, because who thought it would be a good idea), so you sit next to her, cross-legged. The timer hasn’t started yet, thank goodness, because neither of you have left the portal room, so you have all the time in the world. Hopefully no one questions how long it takes you to get out.

Vera looks at you, long bangs nearly covering her eyes. Her hair is longer than you ever remember it being, before you became one person. She never liked having long hair, cutting it short whenever she got the chance to. You were the opposite, and your hair has stayed long throughout all your life. It is, even now.

“I’m sorry I’m not brave,” she says quietly. “My sister is brave. She would be better to have here.”

You swallow hard, trying to think of what to say to comfort her. You are not the person for the job. “I know for a fact you can be-you will be very brave,” You say. You’ve fought a lot with Vera, over the years, and she just gets bolder. “And right now you are the only one that can help me get through this Vault. But you have to get up, because I’m not interested in carrying you through it.”

She just keeps looking at you, eyes narrow and calculating. Vera was always thinking, you remember that. She did enough thinking for the both of you. That thinking caught up to you, of course, when she got out of control. She was always half a step ahead, and you had to run twice as fast to keep up. You’re sure Vera is still thinking, wherever she’s ended up.

“What if I can’t, though?” She asks. “What if… you die?” Her eyes go wide, and you’re reminded of just how small she is.

“I won’t,” you say. “Not forever, at least. That’s what makes it fun.”

Vera curls up further on herself, and you scoot closer, wrapping your arms around her like you used to as a child. She fits better, now that you’re finally taller. “Brea?” Vera whispers. You freeze at the sound of your given name, one you haven’t used in years.

“Yeah,” you say. “I’m sorry for scaring you. I’m so… so sorry.” If you apologized to her now, wherever she is, she wouldn’t accept it. That’s part of the reason why you haven’t. But Vera just tucks her head deeper into your chest and takes a deep breath.

“I know,” Vera says. “I’m sorry, too.” Her voice sounds stronger, older, as if she is possessed by the older version of herself, even though you can feel she’s still smaller than you.

The pair of you sit there for a bit longer before you stand, extending a hand. Vera has uncurled a bit, legs tentatively splayed in front of her, and she takes it, standing for the first time. You take her through the Vault, cautiously leading her to all the spawners and ore rooms and treasure rooms you might need, until you’ve fully collected the elixir you need and have found a lodestone.

“I don’t think you can go back with me,” you say to her. “I’m not-not sure where you’ll go, what time magic has been placed on these Vaults that allowed… this, but I don’t think it’ll be with me.”

Vera nods, standing up straight, hands clasped. “I know,” she says, quiet. “That’s what I thought.”

You walk towards her, wrap her in an embrace that you both relax into. It’s a hug that you haven’t felt in a long, long time. She’s so much smaller than you remember.

[allenwalkerbitch]

I cannot believe Hoshino has me so utterly charmed by a man whose biggest character trait is "undying loyalty to Malcolm C. Levellier," but 247 really was one of the Link chapters of all time huh

[andorerso]

Felicity playing a Hungarian character in her upcoming movie, and Cassian's native language being based partly on Hungarian therefore making him at least a quarter-Hungarian by my admittedly very flawed logic

[reachingrachnius]

[bumblingbabooshka]

Janeway visits Tuvok on Vulcan and they're waiting around for whatever reason when from behind them Janeway suddenly hears what sounds like a series of consonants interspersed with clicks and a shriek which somehow all together sound like the first steps of some undiscovered bird, stretching its wings for the first or perhaps final time. Tuvok looks up and turns toward the noise. "Yes?" This is his last name.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I would like to kill Studio Ghibli pronunciation discourse. The Japanese name of the studio is スタジオジブリ or “Sutajio Jiburi”, pronounced with a “j” sound. It’s named after an Italian airplane, the ghibli, pronounced with a hard “g” sound; this is the name used in English: “Studio Ghibli”.

You aren’t “pronouncing it wrong” by saying Ghibli with a hard G any more than you’re pronouncing it wrong by saying “studio” instead of “sutajio”, nor are you “pronouncing it wrong” by saying Ghibli with a soft g/j sound: words change pronunciation as they pass from one language to another because the native speakers use the sounds that make sense to them. Ghibli changed to jiburi (despite being more accurately transliterated as ギブリ or “giburi”) when it passed from Italian to Japanese just like قبلي or “qibliyy” changed to ghibli when it passed from Arabic to Italian; there’s no reason the pronunciation wouldn’t change passing from either Italian or Japanese to English as well to fit what makes sense to us.

Just use what makes sense to you.