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Offline markc

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« on: September 18, 2014, 12:25:17 AM »
A while ago there was a topic for names and I thought I would throw out a couple that have been rattling around in my brain,


1) Cord Wood: I was watching the news and a spokesman for the Forestry Service in southern Oregon was talking about the fires, his name was Cord Wood.


2) So Ka Teufelsker: I am not sure of the spelling of So Ka but it is Japanese for "I see" and Teufelsker is German for "Devils-man". I got Teufelsker from an article on the World Cup describing the various saying for players on various teams. IIRC the term refers to a goalkeeper who you want to have a deal with the devil to keep out your opponents shots. But I sort of like the phrase "I see Devils-man"


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Re: Names
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2014, 09:06:16 AM »
"Teufelskerl" (mind the "l" at the end - "Kerl" = Man, Guy, Bloke, Dude, Person, etc., always male) has a positive connotation. I'd translate it as "daredevil".
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Re: Names
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2014, 12:52:59 PM »
I just did a search and came up with the same thing I guess I wrote it down wrong, going in reverse Devils Man to German is teufel mann, so the article was way off.
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Re: Names
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2014, 08:48:50 AM »
I have always had a weakness for "punny" names for characters.

Recently there was an article (in the US at least) commenting about how "Harry" isn't Prince Harry's real name, it's Henry. That rather made me sad, I would have thought that after Brannagh did Henry V several years ago, even an American audience would have been able to spot that one without help.

But it got me to thinking that one day I want to have a Bard character who is extremely large/tall named Henry Deal... just so he can be the front man for a band called...

Big Harry Deal and the Small Potatoes.  ::)
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Re: Names
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2014, 09:51:00 AM »
Maybe it's the cold I have talking, but...

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Big Harry Deal and the Small Potatoes.  ::)

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...though I confess to playing an Astrologer named Justin Time.  :angel3:
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Re: Names
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2014, 04:44:45 PM »
My son had a Healer named Mel Practice. A girlfriend had a fighter who used a sword in each hand named Julie Ann Fryes. I had a Magician named Crisby Kridder.
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Re: Names
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2014, 09:16:27 PM »
A friend of mine had twin gnomes (?) that were named Black and Jack. I believe they were both illusionists who gambled. This was in the mid 80's.


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Re: Names
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2014, 08:29:10 AM »
My neice had a dwarf fighter named Dain Brammage.
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Re: Names
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2014, 10:16:42 AM »
Quote from: markc on September 18, 2014, 12:25:17 AM
2) So Ka Teufelsker: I am not sure of the spelling of So Ka but it is Japanese for "I see" (...). But I sort of like the phrase "I see Devils-man"
「そうか…」would be better transliterated as "sou ka" (it would lose the "u" only if you're able to use the line over the "o", i.e. "sō ka"). Also, it's means "I see..." as in the expression "Oh, I see..." since the literal meaning would be more along the lines of "Is it really as you said?" It doesn't mean "I see" as in the sentence "I see something".
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Re: Names
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2014, 11:05:51 AM »
Thanks I am only going off the translation I see at the bottom of anime that I watch and how it is translated there.
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