Roundworld names that should be discworld names
- Thread starter Fortune Clutterbuck
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This is a Dutch one,but it fits so well i had to post it :
Beenhakker
(I tried google translation to see what came up,but that seems to be in love with Leo Beenhakker,which just won't do
,so my best guess the english translation would be something like Legchopper.) as in :
http://www.beenhakker.nl/
(Beenhakker levert een compleet assortiment mobiliteitshulpmiddelen..
Transl to english : Legchopper supplies a complete assortment of mobility-aids...)
:doh:
Might be a leftover from the days when Napoleon forced the Dutch to take on last names and a lot took their professions as surnames.
Beenhakker
(I tried google translation to see what came up,but that seems to be in love with Leo Beenhakker,which just won't do
,so my best guess the english translation would be something like Legchopper.) as in :http://www.beenhakker.nl/
(Beenhakker levert een compleet assortiment mobiliteitshulpmiddelen..
Transl to english : Legchopper supplies a complete assortment of mobility-aids...)
:doh:
Might be a leftover from the days when Napoleon forced the Dutch to take on last names and a lot took their professions as surnames.
I see a lot of weird, oldfashioned and funny names at work, a lot of them don't translate well, but my favorite is Anna Melody, which with a very broad norwegian pronunciation sounds like you ask somone to "play another tune". Also very popular is the combination of old traditional names and a fancy foreign/mythological name; Njål Leander, Ronja Suzanne..... 
Mycroft Vimes said:
This is a Dutch one,but it fits so well i had to post it :
Beenhakker
(I tried google translation to see what came up,but that seems to be in love with Leo Beenhakker,which just won't do ,so my best guess the english translation would be something like Legchopper.) as in :
http://www.beenhakker.nl/
(Beenhakker levert een compleet assortiment mobiliteitshulpmiddelen..
Transl to english : Legchopper supplies a complete assortment of mobility-aids...)
:doh:
Might be a leftover from the days when Napoleon forced the Dutch to take on last names and a lot took their professions as surnames.
Beenhakker
(I tried google translation to see what came up,but that seems to be in love with Leo Beenhakker,which just won't do
,so my best guess the english translation would be something like Legchopper.) as in :http://www.beenhakker.nl/
(Beenhakker levert een compleet assortiment mobiliteitshulpmiddelen..
Transl to english : Legchopper supplies a complete assortment of mobility-aids...)
:doh:
Might be a leftover from the days when Napoleon forced the Dutch to take on last names and a lot took their professions as surnames.
Going back to Praise-God Barebone - we found this reference to him. Reading the early paragraphs, he sounds very much like a Discworld character who was selected to take over from Vetinary in The Truth.
Not a person but a wonderful name for someone in A-M!
Furfuryl Furfurate
A ridiculously-named molecule, about which I know virtually nothing, although I'm told it's quite smelly and may be used as a vapour phase polymerisation inhibitor. It got its name from the Latin "furfur", meaning "bran" (the source of the compound). A related molecule, furfural alcohol is apparently used in the fabrication process of the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) sections used in the space shuttle.
Sourced from : http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm
Furfuryl Furfurate
A ridiculously-named molecule, about which I know virtually nothing, although I'm told it's quite smelly and may be used as a vapour phase polymerisation inhibitor. It got its name from the Latin "furfur", meaning "bran" (the source of the compound). A related molecule, furfural alcohol is apparently used in the fabrication process of the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) sections used in the space shuttle.
Sourced from : http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm
Tonyblack said:
Going back to Praise-God Barebone - we found this reference to him. Reading the early paragraphs, he sounds very much like a Discworld character who was selected to take over from Vetinary in The Truth.
No, I didn't read that particular disclaimer. However, Praise-God Barebones was a seller of leather goods and WAS a real person. He's mentioned (as you'll see in the link) in Pepys' Diary.
My ex-wife's father (my ex-father-in-law?) taught a girl in school who's first name was Lasagne
A wonderful Roundworld placename, which could easily be a Discworld location, is Head-Smashed-in-Buffalo-Jump, in Alberta, Canada, which I visited a few years back.
A few hundred years ago, before the introduction of the horse to North America, the native peoples (the Indians) would hunt buffalo on foot. In one region, near the foothills of the Rockies in Canada, in an area called the Porcupine Hills, where the geography is so flat you can actually see the curvature of the Earth, Indians would creep up on vast herds on buffalo in the night. Disguised in buffalo hides, they would get as close as possible to the edges of the herd. At dawn, they would jump up and start yelling and whooping, causing the herd to stampede. The stampede would be directed towards a small cliff, only around 15ft high, by channeling it down a carefully prepared series of shrubs and bushes, which narrowed as it got closer to the edge. By the time the lead buffaloes realised what was in front of them, they had the weight of thousands, and in some cases, tens of thousands, of other stampeding buffalo at their backs, and hundreds would fall over the edge, where the waiting braves would slaughter them and take all they needed.
According to legend, one young brave, 15 summers old, decided that it would be very brave of him to watch from underneath as the buffalo fell. There is a small outcrop of rock in the cliff, and he thought he would be safe standing under there. He was wrong. As the hundreds of buffalo fell, and gathered in a huge pile, they fell back into the cliff side. Several hundred tons of dead and dying buffalo fell against the young brave, crushing him to death and crushing his skull, hence - Head-smashed-in-buffalo-jump. A very sad, but utterly fascinating reason for naming an otherwise fairly innocuous piece of geography.
A wonderful Roundworld placename, which could easily be a Discworld location, is Head-Smashed-in-Buffalo-Jump, in Alberta, Canada, which I visited a few years back.
A few hundred years ago, before the introduction of the horse to North America, the native peoples (the Indians) would hunt buffalo on foot. In one region, near the foothills of the Rockies in Canada, in an area called the Porcupine Hills, where the geography is so flat you can actually see the curvature of the Earth, Indians would creep up on vast herds on buffalo in the night. Disguised in buffalo hides, they would get as close as possible to the edges of the herd. At dawn, they would jump up and start yelling and whooping, causing the herd to stampede. The stampede would be directed towards a small cliff, only around 15ft high, by channeling it down a carefully prepared series of shrubs and bushes, which narrowed as it got closer to the edge. By the time the lead buffaloes realised what was in front of them, they had the weight of thousands, and in some cases, tens of thousands, of other stampeding buffalo at their backs, and hundreds would fall over the edge, where the waiting braves would slaughter them and take all they needed.
According to legend, one young brave, 15 summers old, decided that it would be very brave of him to watch from underneath as the buffalo fell. There is a small outcrop of rock in the cliff, and he thought he would be safe standing under there. He was wrong. As the hundreds of buffalo fell, and gathered in a huge pile, they fell back into the cliff side. Several hundred tons of dead and dying buffalo fell against the young brave, crushing him to death and crushing his skull, hence - Head-smashed-in-buffalo-jump. A very sad, but utterly fascinating reason for naming an otherwise fairly innocuous piece of geography.
