• Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    English names tend do just get characters that sound phonetically like their English pronunciation. As such, a lot of names, especially longer ones, don’t mean anything. If you directly translated them, a lot of the time you’d get like “cabbage the horse wheel” or something.

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      2 months ago

      If you directly translated them, a lot of the time you’d get like “cabbage the horse wheel” or something.

      That reminds me of the “Password Strength” comic by xkcd. All right, it’s settled. Next time I need new password, I’m feeding random names into a phonetic name translator.