#toponyms

[witch-ren]

Yesterday I've quit my job as a secretary in a company that makes cellular base station projects.

That was an interesting experience indeed, but I have been stressed due to constant hurry and long way to the office and back home. I could think of nothing but my bento for tomorrow.

At least now I know some more funny toponyms. There's a settlement called Lev Tolstoy, which is located in Lipetsk Oblast. Somewhere there is a settlement called Novochemodanovo (rus. Новочемода́ново), which can be roughly translated to New-Suitcasevill or something like that.

[kxantares]

We'll never know. 🤷

[twitterexile]

[polgeonow]

USA: Rhode Island State's Name Change

Rhode Island no longer has the longest official name of any US state.

Also, this!

[necromancy-savant]

Naming WoW characters is such a pain in the ass because I get preoccupied with trying to figure out the phonology of these fictional languages (that aren’t actually fully fleshed out) - what phonemes it has, how they’re written, and what sounds can go together in what environments. It drives me crazy but I don’t want to give my character a name that’s not possible in their native language. 

[polgeonow]

Swaziland's New Name in All Six UN Languages

You might have heard that Swaziland renamed itself "Eswatini" in English. But what about the UN's other five official languages?

A follow-up to last year’s article about Swaziland’s name change...

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Reading Yesteryear (thank you @marzipanandminutiae for lending me your copy!) and nitpicking Natalie's background, as one does (her childhood church would absolutely not have "confirmation classes" if they're doing believer's baptism for people in their late teens). I took to Google Maps to see what's actually in the southwestern corner of Idaho, and:

This is why Natalie is a lesbian so deep in the comphet trenches that she makes Jackie from Yellowjackets look like Elana Dykewomon. Her root, as they say in But I'm a Cheerleader.

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

What kind of Abarat-ass place name...?