Monarch names - do other countries do this?

[Stefu]

So? Are you saying Germans invented all of their own names by themselves?

[Boris Godunov]

We pretty much keep monarch names in their native tongues, except in those times when we want to mock the Monarch by making his name more familiar (Kaiser Bill).

However, it is not consistent, as the further back you go in history, the more we tend to Anglicize monarch names. Of course, I don't think many students would want to be made to learn about Frederic der Grosse

[Stefu]

BTW, Finland strongly considered monarchy in 1918. In fact the monarch-to-be had already been chosen from Germany, but Germany lost the war, and dreams of monarchy were abandonded. If monarchy had managed to go through, King's name would have been "Väinö I"

Considering that has two letters most languages don't have, how would have they managed it? "Vaino I" would roughly mean "Persecution I" in Finnish, and I'm dreading Americans would have twisted it to "Wayne I"...

[ranskaldan]

Chinese does it with every single foreign city, country, or human name that is not in Chinese.

reason being that the Chinese writing system doesn't allow for the integration of foreign elements very well.

[*End Is Forever*]

I read somewhere that Prince Charles will have a sneaky name change when he ascends to the throne, due to the bad vibes given off by every King Charles thus far...

[Stefu]

Oh, great. Doubtlessly he'll become King Dweezil I or something, and try translating that into Finnish.

[*End Is Forever*]

I doubt it'll be anything so radical. George, perhaps...

[Stefu]

Good. It is the job of English monarchy to amuse Finnish schoolchildren, after all.

[Boris Godunov]

I think he'll stay Charles, because in this day and age, folks don't care about the previous ones.

At least he's not Richard or John...

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
It is done, sometimes. We could adress to English kings as Karl VIXIXII but also the Charles version of it, it doesn't really matter. Nowadays, most people use the original name for it though, but sometiems names do still get transferred into German.

I know the Roman number thing is messed up, Iwas merely making fun of the amount of Charles' in England.

There's only been two King Charles' in England. There's been eight Henrys and eleven Edwards, however.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Old Chuck intends to become King George VI on his accession to avoid confusion with unpopular Charles's of history.

He's missing the point that one George was mad, another was fat, perverted and bigamous, another had syphilis and another couldn't speak English.

[Immortal Wombat]

He won't get to the throne anyway.

[Ecthy]

Well Laz, it was basically the usage of Roman numbers and the ridiculously large amount of guys that the

Charles -> George? That's laughable. Chinese cities are always spelled different in German as well. their capital for example was Peking for ages, nowadays it's Beijing

[Kassiopeia]

Forget not that Berlin is Berliini, London is Lontoo, Rome is Rooma, Paris is Pariisi, Copenhagen (Köpenhamn) is Kööpenhamina.

[Kassiopeia]

And Beijing is Peking. Some people talk about Beijing when speaking Finnish, something I can not approve. It's Peking goddammit!