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| Jaynie Senior Member Denmark Joined 5704 days ago 51 posts - 62 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Danish, Latin | Message 17 of 170 01 January 2015 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks for the response, Expugnator.
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| Mareike Senior Member Germany Joined 6018 days ago 267 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German* Studies: English, Swedish | Message 18 of 170 02 January 2015 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am fine with Valhalla
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| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4009 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 19 of 170 02 January 2015 at 5:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Valhalla kinda suggests that we are "dead", sort of defeated. I'm not sure this is the
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| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5141 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 20 of 170 02 January 2015 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
True, but it has the advantage that practically everybody associates the name with Scandinavian culture. Last year we chose Asgard, but evidently it wasn’t evocative enough of Nordic mythology for it to represent our team towards other forum members. When last month we started discussing the new TAC and Team Asgard was mentioned as one of the few teams still active, someone clearly stated they didn’t know what “team Asgard” might refer to. Let’s be honest, there aren’t many words with a strong Nordic connection that the average Joe is familiar with. If Valhalla is
instead of the “death” aspect of the word Valhalla, we might want to stress the idea of a “chosen” group of “warriors” and “legendary heroes”. Just my two cents. And I’m perfectly ok even if we decide to use another name. EDIT: fixed quotation Edited by Emme on 02 January 2015 at 7:14pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4315 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 21 of 170 02 January 2015 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Kos dokker med litt norsk reality-tv:
Anno Ein slags Big Brother på 1700-tallet. edit: As for the team name, I'm ok with pretty much anything. I would add Odin as a suggestion, because he should be well known and he is not only known as a god for warriors (annihilation) but also as the god who invented the runes, ie. the written language. He is also connected to wisdom and poetry. And of course he owns you all ;) Edited by daegga on 02 January 2015 at 9:41pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6391 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 22 of 170 02 January 2015 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think last year we had Odin and Thor among the options? :)
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4501 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 23 of 170 02 January 2015 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Pick something less stereotypical... I vote for Sleipnir :) Edited by tarvos on 02 January 2015 at 11:26pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4009 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 24 of 170 03 January 2015 at 10:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I think we should try to get people to discover Nordic culture.
In order to do that, the name of our Team should evoke something unfamiliar enough to arouse people's curiosity which hopefully will make them look it up. Odin, Valhalla and Thor are all well known and might not induce people to get more in depth with Nordic mythology. So I agree with tarvos: we should pick something less stereotypical, like Sleipnir or Bifröst. Both bridges between two worlds, exactly like languages :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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