Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

[Flying Pig]

Enrique Iglesias means "Eric the Church dude"?

That sounds far less sexy.

Enrique is Henry, isn't it? 'Henry Churchman' or 'Harry Priest' are quite normal-sounding names.

 

[warpus]

I suppose, but "Henry Churchman" is just not someone I would imagine young girls screaming their panties off about.

 

[Arakhor]

Is that Georgia with eklesia? Funny how they're closer to Ancient Greek than Greece itself.

 

[Flying Pig]

You might also notice that the only places using Latin-derived terms were never actually part of the Roman Empire - except contentiously Hungary, I suppose.

 

[Borachio]

I suppose, but "Henry Churchman" is just not someone I would imagine young girls screaming their panties off about.

Ah, but you see, you never met Henry Churchman, did you? With or without his pants.

 

[Arakhor]

It's also a bit surprising that for all Hungarian's famed unrelatedness with other European languages, they directly adopted the Latin term with almost no alteration whatsoever.

 

[Kyriakos]

Is that Georgia with eklesia? Funny how they're closer to Ancient Greek than Greece itself.

That map for some reason did not use the greek turned to latin, ie ecclesia. (εκκλησί&#945. Closer to Greek= Greek

 

[JohannaK]

Enrique is Henry, isn't it? 'Henry Churchman' or 'Harry Priest' are quite normal-sounding names.

Henry Churches is the literal translation. Which is quite a 'normal' name, seeing as the translation of, say, Springsteen to Spanish.

 

[Lohrenswald]

"Kirke" is bokmål, while for nynorsk/new norwegian it is "kyrkje".
You anglophones have no idea how to pronounce that, by the way.

 

[Borachio]

Is it pronounced "James"?

 

[Arakhor]

"Kirke" is bokmål, while for nynorsk/new norwegian it is "kyrkje".

I'd guess "cherkya".

 

[Borachio]

That depends on how you're pronouncing "cherkya", I'd guess.

 

[Flying Pig]

I'd guess "cherkya".

I'd be going more with 'kyear-kya', sort of vaguely like 'Kirche' in German

 

[Lohrenswald]

If you really know how the german "kirche" is pronounced, kirke is like "chirke".
Kyrkje is more like "chyrche" in german spelling.

 

[Arakhor]

Ah yes. The -ch, as in loch. I've never been much good at words with lots of aspirants in it.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Ah yes. The -ch, as in loch. I've never been much good at words with lots of aspirants in it.

If loch is pronounced like I think it is, you are mistaken.

 

[Borachio]

I think it's pronounced ˈçʏʁçəˌ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Swedish

As in the first half of this woman's surname.

 

[Flying Pig]

If loch is pronounced like I think it is, you are mistaken.

The 'ch' in loch is the 'ch' in Bach and Kirche.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Please, Borachio

You used a lot of characters not in the sheet, so I can't really tell (I've never been good with IPA at all)

Kirche and Bach are pronounced differently, Flying Pig. And I think you are imagening it like "bach"

This might not be terribly clear. This is "Kirke", by the way.

 

[Borachio]

Shiirka!