Monarch names - do other countries do this?

[Ecthy]

Peking!

[Kassiopeia]

Btw, Johannes is the Devil. Never utter his name out loud unless you wish to summon him. Yes, this is a very bad, repetitive and obscure inside joke, but I'll keep it that way.

[Ecthy]

Johannes!

[Kassiopeia]

*squeals*

Soon he will arrive! And no one who is left behind can be spared from his teenaged fervour for alcohol and mopeds!

*runs away in horror*

Edit: When you can't decide between "will" and "shall", "wiall" is your choice.

[Felch]

Ioannes is Latin for John. It's likely that German and Finnish both corrupted it in the same way.

Andy, I'm going to be startin German in the fall. Would you be up for helping me practice when I do? Or able to refer me to anywhere I could get practice?

[Victor Galis]

Well Germans have some wierd names for Romanian cities:

Oradea = Grosswardein
Sibiu = Hermannstadt
etc.

I think in Romanian we do tend to turn foreign monarch names into more Romanian forms (Charles -> Carol, Elizabeth -> Elizabeta, etc.)

[Ecthy]

Victor Galis is Romanian? I thought he was a German who moved to Canada at the age of 5.

Felch - OK, not a problem. If Siro wants to do some practising as well (and Taurus finally returns ), we can open a course

[SnowFire]

One of the few good things done by the Communist Chinese government was switching over the official translation system from Wade-Giles (Peking) to Pinyin (Beijing). Sure, some of the city names are less neat, but Pinyin actually uses the letters of the alphabet and doesn't insert diacritical marks everywhere.

[Victor Galis]

[quote]Victor Galis is Romanian? I thought he was a German who moved to Canada at the age of 5.[quote]

-Nah. I was 6, but German is my second language, and I had spent some time in some of the Germanic villages in Transilvania where only German was spoken, but I myself am only 1/32 Austrian, 31/32 Romanian.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Stefu
I wonder what moden King John of England would be.

Only one way to find out. Prince William (who would become King Vilhelm, presumably) must name his son 'John'.

That'd never happen. King John was the guy that signed the Magna Carta, and that act is so repugnant to royalty that--even though "John" is the most popular name in English--there has never been another King John.

[Ecthy]

VG, that sounds cool!

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Felch X
Andy, I'm going to be startin German in the fall. Would you be up for helping me practice when I do? Or able to refer me to anywhere I could get practice?

You are going to study German? I've been there. Good luck. You're doomed.

[Ecthy]

whatwhatwhat?

[Mihai]

There are some capital names that are 'translated' in romanian some time ago, like London -> Londra, Lisboa -> Lisabona, Warsaw -> Varsovia.

Usually we use the original name, but there are some exceptions like Elisabeth -> Elisabeta

Fortunatelly for us, we don't run into finnish names too often. The fonetics are so different.

[Ecthy]

well, it's usual with cities.

English, French and American names don't get translated. Apart from that, nothing stays unharmed.

And in reverse? the formerly mentioned translate anything German, like München --> Munich, or Köln --> Cologne, etc. Or Straßburg --> Strasbourg