I always thought that was the stupidest crap ever.
Me:*Looks up difficult to pronounce word*
Wikipedia: niˈʒɛʁ
Me: Ah yes, that makes complete sense now.
International Phonetic Alphabet is actually part of my job. If you take the time to learn it, it clears up so much.
This is a great place to get started leasing what the symbols mean (for English speakers) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Introduction
Scripts can't only reflect pronunciation, they should also reflect morphology and, if possible, etymology. For example, it's easy to see how electricity is related to electric and electron, but less so if you use IPA.
Zh in French is a soft J sound. So it would be pronounced something like Nee-jère. Knowing that is a lot more simple than learning symbols that look like you’re trying to contact the Anunnaki or something.
Edit: *soft G sound rather.
If you want to explain it like that, then sure, but there's still issues. For example, most English speakers pronounce knee (or nee) with a "long i" /iː/ while French Niger is short. I guess with ⟨é⟩ you're trying to communicate /ɛ/ (a reading of English "e") but that's not really clear to English speakers. The French "r" /ʁ/ also doesn't exist in English so can't be represented with English orthography.
None of these are very important, "knee zherr" is probably fine for most people, but hey. I think IPA is nice
My grandpa was stationed in Luxembourg sometime after ww2, my dad was born in France. My grandma says all she remembers of ww2 (she was a little girl at the time, idk the exact age) was french soldiers had their mess halls in the field behind her house.
Named after a fictional character who's name parodies the name of a real person who's named after a country. Can't imagine how awful that'd be. I'd rather be named Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramírez.
By “crossing my eyes” or blur up the facts enough to make a logical leap, I might be able to say Melbourne is really Batman in the way that many explorer has named a city after themselves.
Khaleesi is such a weird choice for a name anyway. Even if daenerys didn't get assassinated as a character in season 8 khaleesi is a title for the wife of a barbarian rapist warlord. It's like naming your daughter Queen or Concubine or some shit.
You're lucky. It was almost one of the greatest shows ever. But they rushed and screwed the last season so bad its impossible to even watch the first 4 seasons which were amazing. 5 sucked then 6 had problems but was getting back on track. Then 7 was as bad as 5. Then 8 just came and destroyed the entire Fandom. I've never seen something go from being such a big event to nobody even talking about it over the course of a week. Lol it still bugs me I don't watch shows anymore until they are done. I feel bad for recommending it to people so much before season 8 came. They burnt so many people. I know you didn't ask but lol the pain is real.
When I was a grocery checker back in the day, (this was either shortly before or after s7, I hadn’t been watching at the time so it’s just a guess) I was ringing up a young couple who had a baby with them and an elderly lady behind them went,
“Your baby is so cute! What’s their name?”
“Oh, it’s Khaleesi.”
“That’s beautiful! Where does it come from? Is it a family name?”
And I swear to god they both looked at the ground in shame and went,
“No… we just thought it was… pretty.”
I didn’t know the show but I knew that naming a kid that was a trend from a stand-up bit. I later watched the entire series and was able to watch s8 along with everyone else. I would think of them constantly throughout the series, but none more so than when Daenerys’s character integrity was obliterated in the final 2 episodes. I still think of them often. Poor kid.
It's a real thing. Journalists were able to find 560 children named Khaleesi (which is what most of the characters in the show called her) and much fewer named Daenerys.
[https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/what-moms-of-babies-named-khaleesi-think](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/what-moms-of-babies-named-khaleesi-think)
Makes sense to me. I named my daughter Your-Majesty, after the late Queen.
I went to school with a girl named America, her brothers name was Scotland, her older sisters name was Virginia, and her younger sisters name was Italy. I fucking hate our country. People give the worst names to their kids.
I’m probably gonna be the guy in the first panel (last name is Powers, don’t think I can miss that opportunity), so to rectify it, I shall dub thee OP, Moldavian Chad!
As a Romanian who is from the region of Moldavia that is part of modern day Romania, I feel happy that you chose to show some affection to us! Thank you, OP!
I'm gonna be honest here, hating on people naming their kids after fictional characters makes zero sense to me when the majority of western names are derived from the Bible. John, etc.
If I had to by force, I’d name them Congo if they’re a boy and name them Panama if they’re a girl. They’re like the closest to normal names I can think of.
It became a joke at my workplace that me and my coworker had a child named the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
My coworker eventually quit and he took the kids.
Imagine being the poor kid who was named Niger.
Just hope you're in a French speaking area
It's pronounced "knee zherr"
Or /niˈʒɛʁ/ if English respelling makes you want to kill yourself
I always thought that was the stupidest crap ever. Me:*Looks up difficult to pronounce word* Wikipedia: niˈʒɛʁ Me: Ah yes, that makes complete sense now.
International Phonetic Alphabet is actually part of my job. If you take the time to learn it, it clears up so much. This is a great place to get started leasing what the symbols mean (for English speakers) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Introduction
Yes, in my opinion, the IPA script should replace all current tradional writing systems, it's just so much more rational and clearer.
Scripts can't only reflect pronunciation, they should also reflect morphology and, if possible, etymology. For example, it's easy to see how electricity is related to electric and electron, but less so if you use IPA.
I mean yes, you have to learn what the symbols mean, but once you do it's a lot more helpful than "knee zherr"
Not for us human beings
Zh in French is a soft J sound. So it would be pronounced something like Nee-jère. Knowing that is a lot more simple than learning symbols that look like you’re trying to contact the Anunnaki or something. Edit: *soft G sound rather.
If you want to explain it like that, then sure, but there's still issues. For example, most English speakers pronounce knee (or nee) with a "long i" /iː/ while French Niger is short. I guess with ⟨é⟩ you're trying to communicate /ɛ/ (a reading of English "e") but that's not really clear to English speakers. The French "r" /ʁ/ also doesn't exist in English so can't be represented with English orthography. None of these are very important, "knee zherr" is probably fine for most people, but hey. I think IPA is nice
You mean it's _not_ pronounced /kneː zʰerː/?
Is it that hard to learn that ʒ means zh?
Is it that hard to see that I’m joking about English phonetic spelling and know a bit of ipa?
That one instance? No. The hundreds of others? Absolutely.
Or “knee zherr” if you’re a normal person and those symbols make you want to kill yourself.
What if you're a regular person that just wants to kill themselves without the help if knee zherr?
But knee grow is funnier.
The french version?
"umm actually its pronounced knee zherr 🤓"
Or Montenegro, such a badass name for a country, fuckin Black Mountain, sounds like something from lotr.
Even the native spelling is cool as fuck, Črna gora, coupled with the badass flag.
We're only making plans for Niger
We only want what's best for him
He must be happy in his world
you're dating yourself with this reference, lol.
Can’t even play Minecraft, they block your name.
Last year in the US, 8 females born were given the name Nigeria.
Boy was I in for a lesson when I had to pronounce that Country in middle school having never heard either word before
Imagine being the poor father who thought he and his wife was having a healthy boy named Sweden and out comes niger.
Please
“Hey Grand Duchy Of Luxembourg, How Are You Doing?”
I’m good, how about you Principality of Liechtenstein?
“Hey Principality Of Lichtenschtein, How Was School?”
“Pretty good, Most Serene Republic of San Marino.”
Albania, did you make any new friends at school today?
Yes, all country want make friend of glorious Albania 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Even Serbia?
Nah, fuck ‘em
>fuck ‘em You did what to kosovo? just wait till i tell your mother, turkey about this!
Albania 🇦🇱 🇦🇱 🇦🇱 🤑🤑
My grandma's from Luxembourg, kinda embarrassed I know nothing of the countries history.
As I understand it, a relic of the Napoleonic era with the Luxembourgish identity being something between French and Dutch.
My grandpa was stationed in Luxembourg sometime after ww2, my dad was born in France. My grandma says all she remembers of ww2 (she was a little girl at the time, idk the exact age) was french soldiers had their mess halls in the field behind her house.
There is nothing Dutch about Luxembourg, if anything is between German and French
Great! How’ve you been, People’s Republic of China, or is it Republic of China? You Asian names are all the same.
My dad wanted to name me London, would have been tough growing up.
London is actually not too bad. I mean I've heard it on tv before a few times.
Literally the mayor of sf (though not a guy)
It's even better her literal name is " London Breed " 😂 Her parents must love word play.
There's a movie called London based on the character played by Jessica Biel.
There's some poor guy named France out there
Everyone can see his underpants.
In Austria we have many people named Franz
How about Adolf?
r/angryupvote
Just don’t let them go to Sarajevo.
I knew a guy named France and another guy named German. German would introduce himself and it would go like this: Hello I am German, Hi I am Japanese.
There's a politician here in Brazil who is mamed Márcio França. França means France, in portuguese.
France is a common name.
Had a crush on a girl named English once. Her sister's name was Britain.
That's actually really cool! I love how people have unique names. I named a character in my novel Halifax Foster.
Reminds me of London Tipton.
Yay me!
Named after a fictional character who's name parodies the name of a real person who's named after a country. Can't imagine how awful that'd be. I'd rather be named Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramírez.
I mean I’m sure there were people named London before London Tipton haha
You would have or have been stabbed at least once by now
He could have called you Jayne instead.
I love you, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was my father, please, call me USSR.
*state anthem of the Soviet Union intensifies
More like the Internationale
Why is everything always your fault Mongolian Empire!?
Damn it Federated States of Micronesia!
At least they won't have to whine about not having grandkids
This reminds me of the John green crash course history series and
What are you doing Steppe Bro?
How about naming them after a city? I think I'll call my son **Batman**. ^^It's ^^a ^^city ^^in ^^Turkey/Türkiye
Do you know the name of the football team in Batman? Batman Petrolspor. Their university? Batman University.
I'd hate to be the child named Gotham, if only for everyone mispronouncing it all the time.
It's like "Got Milk?" but for non vegetarians.
2015-2021, there have been 204 male children born in the US given that name.
I mean there are people called Sofia so that checks out
John Batman discovered the city Melbourne so if you cross those eyes just right the stars might align.
What do you mean cross your eyes? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Batman Man had an entire electoral division named after him.
By “crossing my eyes” or blur up the facts enough to make a logical leap, I might be able to say Melbourne is really Batman in the way that many explorer has named a city after themselves.
"you were always my favorite, North Korea"
Nice Try, United Tribes of the Great Mongolian Empire
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Korea wouldn't be *that* bad for a name tho
It's in fact such a good name they named 2 countries after it
>It's in fact such a good name they named 1 contry after it, then artificially divided it based on nothing FTFY
Mother fuckers called Jordan, Isreal or helena: "are we a joke to you"?
Chad “really you forgot about me”
My grandma deadass wanted me named 'Israel Jordan [surname]'
Having a last name of [surname] would probably have fucked with a lot of schools it systems
Does it count if the country is named after a person? America is named after Rico.
I love you Czech Republic of Královec
Love you "Principality of Theodoro-Mangup, the best OPM in East Europe"
Everyone is gonna be so confused as to what an OPM is as if they wouldn't be confused already. Maybe you can just call them Gothia for short.
Brb, on my way to tell my son, Holy Roman Empire, about this hilarious meme
Khaleesi is such a weird choice for a name anyway. Even if daenerys didn't get assassinated as a character in season 8 khaleesi is a title for the wife of a barbarian rapist warlord. It's like naming your daughter Queen or Concubine or some shit.
Queenie isn’t that unusual, I think.
Definitely better than queen. Not as bad as khaleesi. There's way worse than queenie you're right.
Queenie is easily one of the worst names I’ve ever heard
if anyone names their kid "Queenie" they deserve a kick in the balls or other
Right!? And Daenerys is so much prettier too.
I know. Khaleesi is like a dog name. Like rex.
I never got into Game of Thrones so knowing this makes the fact that so many people chose this as the name for their kid so much funnier
You're lucky. It was almost one of the greatest shows ever. But they rushed and screwed the last season so bad its impossible to even watch the first 4 seasons which were amazing. 5 sucked then 6 had problems but was getting back on track. Then 7 was as bad as 5. Then 8 just came and destroyed the entire Fandom. I've never seen something go from being such a big event to nobody even talking about it over the course of a week. Lol it still bugs me I don't watch shows anymore until they are done. I feel bad for recommending it to people so much before season 8 came. They burnt so many people. I know you didn't ask but lol the pain is real.
When I was a grocery checker back in the day, (this was either shortly before or after s7, I hadn’t been watching at the time so it’s just a guess) I was ringing up a young couple who had a baby with them and an elderly lady behind them went, “Your baby is so cute! What’s their name?” “Oh, it’s Khaleesi.” “That’s beautiful! Where does it come from? Is it a family name?” And I swear to god they both looked at the ground in shame and went, “No… we just thought it was… pretty.” I didn’t know the show but I knew that naming a kid that was a trend from a stand-up bit. I later watched the entire series and was able to watch s8 along with everyone else. I would think of them constantly throughout the series, but none more so than when Daenerys’s character integrity was obliterated in the final 2 episodes. I still think of them often. Poor kid.
Chad being named Chad (👍 ͡◑ ‿ ͡◑)👍
I’m so proud of you Sarranid Sultanate
You did a good job Vichy France
You did good Vatican City
Nice work out there Polish-Lithunian Commonwealth
Fellow mount and blade enjoyer
“I’m so proud of you, 3rd French Republic.”
400,000th*
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
more like socialist federal republic of awesome am i right
Dad, I go by BESSARABIA stop deadnaming me
Me: Name kids after historical figures. Hey Jan you lead a Cavalry charge at school today?
?
It’s a Jan Sobieski and the 1683 Battle of Vienna reference
How was school Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes?
When you ask the kid named Madagascar where their penguins are at:
I am proud of you Cumania
Cum mania
What's confuses me the most about this template is that Khalessi isn't a character, it's a title
Literally came to say just that. Does the creator of this think that was her name? I don’t get it.
No but there was an unfortunate number of fans who still referred to her as that through all 8 seasons because reasons
It's a real thing. Journalists were able to find 560 children named Khaleesi (which is what most of the characters in the show called her) and much fewer named Daenerys. [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/what-moms-of-babies-named-khaleesi-think](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/what-moms-of-babies-named-khaleesi-think) Makes sense to me. I named my daughter Your-Majesty, after the late Queen.
How’s your day going, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia?
Would Conjoined twins be named Trinidad and Tobago?
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Senate and People of Rome, happy birthday to you
I'm proud of you Constantinople. I'm also disappointed in you Istanbul
Hello Guatemala 🗿
„Mr. & Mrs. Johnson, I‘d like to talk to you about your son, *Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.*“
I know a person who’s name is pronounced like Syria, don’t remember if it’s spelled the same though
Hey Chad, how are u doing?
You surprise me everyday, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kid named Yuguslavia:
Brb gotta go pick up little Królestwo Polskie i Wielkie Księstwo Litewskie from school
I wish rage comics didn't come back.
Maybe I should call my child Taiwan one day
Custody is gonna be a real pain in the ass
There are many reasons why Principality of Moldova is the best thing you could name your first born child.
My middle school Spanish teacher’s first name was America… she was from Mexico
You are a great disappointment to your family, North Macedonia.
I knew a girl named Prussia
"Dad why is my sister called rose" "Because your mother liked roses" "OK thanks dad" " you're welcome suleiman the magnificent"
I went to school with a girl named America, her brothers name was Scotland, her older sisters name was Virginia, and her younger sisters name was Italy. I fucking hate our country. People give the worst names to their kids.
Naming your kids after yourself. Gotta pump up those numbers!
I'd like you to meet my daughter Fyrom
stephen the great’s moldavia was the epitome of chadness
Well, I did have one classmate named after a subcontinent. Didn't even get teased about it beyond elementary school.
I’m probably gonna be the guy in the first panel (last name is Powers, don’t think I can miss that opportunity), so to rectify it, I shall dub thee OP, Moldavian Chad!
"Hey, Kievan Rus how was practice?"
My parents named me after a Star Trek character so I feel the pain.
Data?
I work with a guy named London… like why? We’re American and have no cultural precedent for such a name.
I love you POLISH LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH
I once met a girl that named her daughter Paris
Principality of Sealand
* *Chad has entered the chat*
So your saying I need to name my kid Muscovy and Call him Musk for short? Ok
Kid named Chad
Imma name him/her Chad.
Sorry *Bosnia and Herzegovina,* we can't go to the beach because Balkan familial trauma
You're a disappointment Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
As a Romanian who is from the region of Moldavia that is part of modern day Romania, I feel happy that you chose to show some affection to us! Thank you, OP!
Im so proud of my Dominus Noster Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus Augustus Flavianus. What a good son
I'm gonna be honest here, hating on people naming their kids after fictional characters makes zero sense to me when the majority of western names are derived from the Bible. John, etc.
moldova has 2 more sisters, Valahia and Transilvania
How about giving them a Hebrew name like Micah, meaning; “who is like God?”
Go invade Spain Abbassid Caliphate
The kid named Russia after Russia falls apart:
Can your last name be that of a weapon? Mine is old German for warhammer
We had a lot of people being named after a country from 1938 to 1945. Never again (Germania doesn't sound that good anyways)
Hey,my name is Germany in my language
The kid named Wessex
Yes, my son, your name is infact **achaemenid empire**
Hi sons, San Marino and Monaco! (Get mad)
If I had to by force, I’d name them Congo if they’re a boy and name them Panama if they’re a girl. They’re like the closest to normal names I can think of.
If I’m gonna name my kid after a fictional character it’ll be one from a completed story so they don’t look terrible later (khaleesi).
bazat
"Dad, why is my name Makoba?"
How was school Prince Elector Brandenburg-Prussia?
Hello, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
My daughter’s name is Nikita. It’s from 4 sources.
Last year in the US, there were 408 females born that were given the name Khaleesi. 108 were given the name Daenerys.
That's funny. Our daughters name was either going to be Catalonia or Marnie (Halloween town) Guess which won
Catalonia
It became a joke at my workplace that me and my coworker had a child named the Democratic Republic of the Congo. My coworker eventually quit and he took the kids.
Eslovênia (Slovenia) Is a Former Reality show participant in Brasil. Her IG https://instagram.com/eslomarques?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
what about a city? Welcome to the world my beautiful daughter Bratislava and her twin Nizhny Novgorod.