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Originally Posted by Thinlómien
I assume the troll was still male ...? Weird.
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He was male, but maybe it was that by adding -a the translator tried to make it sound more vulgar, like Vilda.
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Originally Posted by Thinlómien
A ranger?! No way!  You should know how it's pronounced but I don't even try to explain... but I assure you it doesn't sound noble at all. To me it sounds like a stubborn badger, but that's probably because "mäyrä" means badger and "jääräpäinen" means stubborn... |
I'm not sure if I pronounce it correctly, but if I do, it could be a Ranger's name. Even if it were to mean "stubborn badger" (after all, Rangers are close to animals, even to badgers
). I never said it had to sound noble - the Rangers just as Rangers do not seem noble at all. For a "common Ranger", like Halbarad or someone without any rank among them, it could be fine...
But the main point, and the advantage of this, lies in the fact that when it's an alien word for me, I can imagine anything I wish under it - only limited by what it sounds like.