#patronymics

However I’m conflicted because I don’t know how strongly one would have to disavow their father to even consider doing something like that

idk, I still ship it

The Ancient Mystery is Solved

The Dodecahedron is a mystery no more This mysterious cast bronze object, commonly known as a Gallo-Roman Dodecahedron, has baffled science for centuries. The riddle has been solved by The Twentieth Man. https://www.historicmysteries.com/roman-dodecahedron/ A dodecahedron is a twelve-faceted polyhedron. Each facet of this cast bronze dodecahedron has a hole through it. Each hole is a different…

this question has been bothering me for months, so it really helps. also i'm glad i now know the "system", as it were, ro figuring out the endings. russian patronymics confuse me, but i'm glad to know now. thank you so much, fyo!

It’s okay! It’s kind of fun having a really prominent and normalized cultural thing that’s baffling and alien to foreigners. I don’t expect random internet commenters to magically know all about Icelandic names. The actual news outlets should do their research, though.

To its credit, Wikipedia actually does this correctly and has a note on top of every page about Icelanders explaining the proper nomenclature: “This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Sigmundur Davíð.” If only respected international publications would live up to the same standard as Wikipedia.

it was so bad I was there with three people who speak French fluently and I came out like ‘so that was a weird film. what exactly was happening anyway?’ - but then again it was in like… 2008 I think

fun fact the first time I ever watched Inception was in French!! and I remember I was so proud bc I understood the scene where Ariadne talks to Mol even though I couldn’t understand the rest of the movie wooooo