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Beyond the Grave
 Post subject: Translate Your Name
PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:05 pm 
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I am proposing an idea for a new forum Holiday. It's called Translate Your Name Day, it where you take your forum name and translate it into a different language. You can translate your name into any language you want. I want this Holiday to be on Monday, Labor Day(US). Anybody willing to participate?

One rule though, keep your avatar and signatures the same, so we know who everybody is.

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Is anybody else sick of forum holidays?

Anyway, a good portion of users wouldn't be able to participate since their names can't be easily translated.

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Anyway, a good portion of users wouldn't be able to participate since their names can't be easily translated.
Yeah they can. Just use a good internet translation site. Just remember to put space in between if you don't have them.

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I think he means usernames that aren't real words. It's kind of hard to translate a made up word into a different language.
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Beyond the Grave wrote:
Yeah they can. Just use a good internet translation site. Just remember to put space in between if you don't have them.


Didymus
iKipapa
Acekirby
Shopiom
ed 'lim' smilde
Puphles
fahooglewitz1077
DanBo
Cmarbagoi
kellan6
Smorky

No amount of adding spaces is going to make those names translatable.

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I wouldn't really need to translate my name if Engrish can be considered a different language
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Smorky wrote:
I think he means usernames that aren't real words. It's kind of hard to translate a made up word into a different language.
Lock this thing, if all of the users can't participate then it is not worth doing.

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Beyond the Grave wrote:
Smorky wrote:
I think he means usernames that aren't real words. It's kind of hard to translate a made up word into a different language.
Lock this thing, if all of the users can't participate then it is not worth doing.


They could translate their real name into a different langwetch!

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InterruptorJones wrote:
Beyond the Grave wrote:
Yeah they can. Just use a good internet translation site. Just remember to put space in between if you don't have them.


Didymus
iKipapa
Acekirby
Shopiom
ed 'lim' smilde
Puphles
fahooglewitz1077
DanBo
Cmarbagoi
kellan6
Smorky

No amount of adding spaces is going to make those names translatable.
I agree some name cannot be translated, but like Funkstar suggested, use there real names. BTW I have translated some of those. Acekirby goes through, Didymus is already translated. The others are just going to find the translations for there real life names, which there are no shortage of place to find those.

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Brotvieren! :P Seperate it into simpler words (like i did "bread rectangle) and it might work better.
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Hmmm... Puphles... Pup Hles? Yeah, some of them don't really work for that either.

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Mine in Dutch is "DS een geintje maken". That's just scary.

Kid= 3 letters
Kid in Dutch= 15 letters.

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EDIT: Can it be?

300 POSTS!

That's the fastest 100 posts I've made!

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DS_Kid wrote:
Kid= 3 letters
Kid in Dutch= 15 letters.


I think you'd have had better luck with "DS child," which translates to "DS kind." By entering "kid" you got "geintje," which is Dutch for goat.

Heh, DS_Goat.

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I'm definitely not gonna be able to do this. That word is totally and completely made up by yours truly.

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I'm definitely not gonna be able to do this. That word is totally and completely made up by yours truly.
Then use your real name.

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I don't know. You could use your real name, but I don't think it's a great idea for a holiday.

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Do reals names translate?

Either way, I don't nthink this is a great idea... Even though I'm not sick of the forum holidays, In think we should lay off for a bit, spread 'em out a bit more.
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Lock this, this was a stupid idea in the first place.

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You could just translate it into poor Engrish. Like mine would be "Printer the Color" or somethin.

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IDEA: Instead of translating your name, how about just making it sound like it's from a different language?
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well, its a little stupid, but im in for this.

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tangy wrote:
IDEA: Instead of translating your name, how about just making it sound like it's from a different language?
I'll go one better, if your name translates, do so, if it doesn't make it sound like it is.

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I do this every day.

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Sweet. I'll be Sir or Mister. :mrgreen:

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Despite IJ's insinuations to the contrary, my name can, in fact, be translated. It means Twin. But I'm not so sure I'll bother changing it anytime soon. Unless I change it to Didymus II: This Time It's Not Didymus I.

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Didymus wrote:
Despite IJ's insinuations to the contrary, my name can, in fact, be translated. It means Twin. But I'm not so sure I'll bother changing it anytime soon. Unless I change it to Didymus II: This Time It's Not Didymus I.
Thank you Didymus, now would please clean the Diet Coke that is all over my monitor.

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This is how I translate my name into English:


God teacher, the fire walking person! :mrgreen:

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Here is mine in German. Uber hinaus das Grab

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Je m'appelle Monsieur Sparkle!

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tangy wrote:
IDEA: Instead of translating your name, how about just making it sound like it's from a different language?


That's what I'm gonna do.

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