help me choose a username! : Othor Games

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:57 pm

False, "Aelaeandi" means "Attractive" not "Winning", winning could be "Sigrandi" or "Vinnandi".

"He is winning the competition" - "Hann er ae vinna keppnina" or "Hann er ae sigra keppnina" both can be used here. However in no way can "winning" be translated as "Aelaeandi" which means attractive.

"The woman was attractive" - "Konan var aelaeandi"

However the word "vinna" can be used both for "win" and "work".

Example for used as "work": "He was working for Bethesda" - "Hann var ae vinna fyrir bethesda"

So it may be better to go for "sigra" or rather "Sigrandi"

So ultimately if he went for the word "Winning" in Icelandic it should be "Sigrandi".

I used Google translate... Damn you Google!

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:06 pm

I used Google translate... Damn you Google!

Yeah I just checked it now too and it says "Aelaeandi" for me too. Google translate is however simply wrong

And it can be wrong a lot, once read through a job application from someone who had just written the application in Polish and then used google translate to turn it into Icelandic and it turned out to be pretty incomprehensible, would never have guessed it to be a job application if I hadn't known it beforehand that it was a job application.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:05 pm

Buddugol - Welsh

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:54 pm

Kushinda souds best.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:46 am

Dutch one of course; Winnend.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:28 pm

:rofl: I thought you meant "whining"... I was like, WTF?!?! Now I get it. It's good that you look for germanic/slavonic (or else) words. Latin words sound lame for this. Don't get me wrong, I love French (mother tongue), but "gagnant" doesn't sound good, it's ugly even for us. Yeah, nyero is nice.

Edit: I see you put portugese and Catalan in there... my bad. As long as the root is not the same as "gagner", it's fine.

Hahaha yeah I would think someone was crazy if they wanted whining as a username

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:05 am

Nyer? is an adjective in hungarian (and even then it is not used in relation with persons ), if you wanted to express winner, you would say nyertes or gy?ztes.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:34 pm

Kushinda

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:17 am

For reference, the Finnish word would be: "Voitto" (Victory) "Voittaa" (to win) or "Voittoisa" (Victorious)

Other than the necessary plug in the name of nationalism, I vote for Vencedor.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:14 pm

In Portuguese:

Winning = vencendo
Winner = vencedor

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:10 am

For reference, the Finnish word would be: "Voitto" (Victory) "Voittaa" (to win) or "Voittoisa" (Victorious)

Or he could use "vittu" and be done with it. :whistling:

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:19 pm

Or he could use "vittu" and be done with it. :whistling:

What is vittu?

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:01 am

What is vittu?

Nothing. Don't use it. Don't even google it, trust me. :rofl:

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:31 pm

Nothing. Don't use it. Don't even google it, trust me. :rofl:

You can't do that and expect me not to google it!

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:31 am

You can't do that and expect me not to google it!

Resist temptation my young padawan.. Temptation leads to fornication, fornication leads to conception, conception leads to depression, depression leads to... the dark side... :starwars:

Okay fine, google it, but don't expect to find anything pleasant!

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:14 pm

Resist temptation my young padawan.. Temptation leads to fornication, fornication leads to conception, conception leads to depression, depression leads to... the dark side... :starwars:

Okay fine, google it, but don't expect to find anything pleasant!

what if i want the dark side?? I looked :biggrin:

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:26 pm

what if i want the dark side?? I looked :biggrin:

:facepalm:

You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Trolls, not join them. You were to bring balance to the forum, not leave it in darkness!