#languages stuff

Hi there, umlauts hating anon! Isn’t it wonderful learning languages? 😂 But now for real, despite the frustrations we may find along the way, learning new languages is amazing, and I salute you cause it takes a lot of effort 👌👌About not translating the christmas traditions, I thought that would sort of go against the spirit of having so many different traditions, if I just used the English terms instead of their true names.

With English speakers: I feel somewhat safe :D

With Spanish speakers: I feel somewhat safe :D

I’ll support the endearments stuff. We don’t say ‘babe’. We say 'my soul’, 'atonement’, 'my soul of a swan’ 'my life’ 'my life in the heart/pancreas’… (That’s because in Hebrew, heart is לב and pancreas is לבלב. Although they sound different lol). And yeah. Hebrew is a zombie language

It was really common at the time to be known by your ephitetical nickname and that is the case for many painters and artists (also is very common in the Iliad: Achilles Pelides, in this case as a patronymic). It was also common in Ancient Rome, as only nobles (patrizi) had family names and the concept of a surname as we intend it today didn’t exist.

So, keeping all that in mind, I was thinking about the name “Marius de Romanus” and its structure. In English it sounds like ‘Marius the Romanus’, Marius the roman (Marius il romano/Palma il vecchio) which is an epithet describing his background and that’s so neat because the naming process takes a common practice at the time (people being called by and epithet that qualifies them) and combines it with a sound that gives it the same meaning in English (Marius the romanus) by using an italian (latin? I think it’s used in other Romance languages such as French too) preposition (de) that is common in surnames from noble families. Neat naming process here Anne!

I went to Pleasantview just to get hit with the nostalgia. I chose the Monty (Antonio and the twins) and cause I actually never did it, decided to read the bios for once.

But see, I have my game in French cause I'm a French native speaker, so one of the twins, Benedick, has been renamed Bénédicte... And that twin's bio use female pronouns (she/her). Here's proof from Les Sims 2 Wiki:

Translation: Bénédicte is the kindest of Antonio's twins. Sensitive and careful, she could play a huge role in Antonio's investigation to discover Héro's murderer.