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If the goal is something that reads weird for most Europeans, then try picking names from Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, or Welsh.
by nine_k 2mo ago
If the goal is something that reads weird for most Europeans, then try picking names from Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, or Welsh.
- noir_lord 2mo agoMy missus is Hungarian, I'm sure it's a lovely language but it just sounds like Klingon to me. Which makes it hilarious when she's annoyed at the boy.
- pndy 2mo agoThe fact that Sz in Hungarian reads as s and other way around, S becomes sh - is mind-boggling especially for Poles, where Sz is pronounced as sh. and S remains s.
- nine_k 2mo agoIn Spanish "z" always sounds [s] (except in Spain where it sounds [θ]), but "s" can often sound [z].
- huhtenberg 2mo agoWait for the Italian where "cc" makes a "ch" sound and "ch" is "k" * When followed by e or i.
- pndy 2mo agoOh mio Dio :x
- decimalenough 2mo agoFunnily enough, there are quite a few IKEA products with Finnish names. (Most are place names from northern Sweden, where there's a significant Finnish minority.)
- teiferer 2mo agoThe Tornedalen people are kinda their own group with their own language (Meänkieli). To an outsider it might sound like Finnish, but it's not much closer to Finnish than Yiddish is to German.
- Sharlin 2mo agoNot so sure. As a native Finnish speaker, I'd say most of us would understand Meänkieli just fine, especially anyone raised on the coastal areas where colloquial Swedish loans are more common in general.
- jltsiren 2mo agoMeänkieli split from what became the Torne Valley dialects of Finnish in 1809, when an international border suddenly appeared in the middle of the region. To a Finnish speaker it sounds like a bit old-fashioned dialect, but it's mostly intelligible. It's definitely closer to standard Finnish than Karelian, which takes a lot of effort to understand.
- throw-the-towel 2mo agoNow I want a HÉTFŐ desk, and a SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR... something.
- fragmede 2mo agoYou really wanna get weird, there's those continents of Asia, Africa, and South America, full of different sounds to use for names. Ikea is Swedish, so they get to propagate Swedish culture to the rest of the world.
- psunavy03 2mo agoWith a side of tasty meatballs.
- dylan604 2mo agoI've had tasty meatballs. It was the lingonberry sauce that I was introduced from Ikea.
- MomsAVoxell 2mo agoHas anyone else noticed that Ikea meatballs aren’t as tasty as they used to be? And then there’s that whole issue of there being, like, 4 different types, and none of them seem to be what they sound like.
- pseudohadamard 2mo agoI can just imagine Chinese IKEA, their entire product list would be Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī shī, shí shí shí shī shī Shì shì shì shì.
- freddyfloof 2mo agoMy favourite poem! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
- retired 2mo agoImagine an alternative reality where a KALLAX is a ԿԱԼԼԱՔՍ and the stores have pushy salesmen with impressive amounts of visible chest hair.
- bberkgaut 2mo agothe joke is a bit too hairy to my taste, and yet I can't help but imagine how good would be the restaurant in that reality!
- ccozan 2mo agoI heard the raktajino is really good! Qapla'!
- orthoxerox 2mo agoTheir ads could star the Kardashians.
- bobthepanda 2mo agoBasque would be truly weird since it is one of a few known language isolates