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But how are you supposed to know which syllable to stress without a double vowel?hrotha said:I know what it is, that's what makes it so blergh.Der Effe said:hrotha said:I can't get over how stupid "Antwan Tolhoek" is. "Antwan", for god's sake.
It’s Antoine, but then in Dutch. Same with Toine/Twan. I mean, it’s not even the Dutch version of the name, which is Anton, but Antwan is Antoine phonetically spelled.
It’s pretty stupid I guess, even though not that uncommom, but had his parents decided to spell it Antoine no one would’ve noticed.
*cries in a corner*Libertine Seguros said:But how are you supposed to know which syllable to stress without a double vowel?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwaan_Randle_El
You don't get my point by the looks of it. The point is König means king. Cunego doesn't even mean König as far as I know.hrotha said:Cunego > KönigKokoso said:For me his royal majesty emperor Leopold König has same charm almost as good as one name I can't recall now...
"Cunego" is an Italian adaptation of "König". It is literally the same.Kokoso said:You don't get my point by the looks of it. The point is König means king. Cunego doesn't even mean König as far as I know.hrotha said:Cunego > KönigKokoso said:For me his royal majesty emperor Leopold König has same charm almost as good as one name I can't recall now...
IMHO König sounds more royal and certainly cooler than Cunego anyway
I don't think so, nowhere to be found. Anyway even if it was, it wouldn't work because part of reason that name is cool is it sounds German and first name is Leopold. König Leopold sounds right, König Damiano doesn't.hrotha said:"Cunego" is an Italian adaptation of "König". It is literally the same.Kokoso said:You don't get my point by the looks of it. The point is König means king. Cunego doesn't even mean König as far as I know.hrotha said:Cunego > KönigKokoso said:For me his royal majesty emperor Leopold König has same charm almost as good as one name I can't recall now...
IMHO König sounds more royal and certainly cooler than Cunego anyway
Yeah it is, dijk = dike/embankmentRedheadDane said:Then there's Fabio Jakobsen; first name sounds Italian, surname sounds Danish, guy is Dutch - go figure!
Also, according to Chris Anker Sørensen Pierre-Luc Perichon is the best French name ever.
The names you come across when checking start lists; Daan Van Sintmaartensdijk! Hmm... does "dijk" mean "dike"? Would make sense to have it a part of a Dutch name (like Ellen Van Dijk).
Yeah that's why they haveRedheadDane said:Makes more sense than all the various Van Den Bergs running around. Though, I remember reading somewhere that the creation of family names in the Netherlands happened when the French occupied the area under Napoleon and demanded that everyone should have a family name (as opposed to patronym, I guess), and the Dutch just decided to take the piss!
Sint-Maartensdijk is simply the name of a town in the Netherlands. So his ancestors most likely were from (=van) that town.RedheadDane said:Then there's Fabio Jakobsen; first name sounds Italian, surname sounds Danish, guy is Dutch - go figure!
Also, according to Chris Anker Sørensen Pierre-Luc Perichon is the best French name ever.
The names you come across when checking start lists; Daan Van Sintmaartensdijk! Hmm... does "dijk" mean "dike"? Would make sense to have it a part of a Dutch name (like Ellen Van Dijk).
toolittle said:This is coolest name in cycling world beyond debate.... Peter Sagan.
Strange, nobody knows Sagan here?
Coolest name in cycling history.
If not, Latour is a symbol of cycling race.
Actually, i think it can be a pretty cool name, but it depends on the language. I'm not sure if Sagan isn't Slovakian for pot.RedheadDane said:But does the town have a dijk?
Or are/were the Dutch as ridiculous when it comes to naming towns? I mean, don't tell me the town is in the middle of the frikkin' Limburg province!
toolittle said:This is coolest name in cycling world beyond debate.... Peter Sagan.
Strange, nobody knows Sagan here?
Coolest name in cycling history.
If not, Latour is a symbol of cycling race.
I'm not talking about the coolest rider, I'm talking about the coolest name.
Well, Sint-Maartensdijk is in Zeeland and pretty close to the sea, so the answer is probably "yes". But if you found a town with a name in -dijk that was pretty far inland, it would probably be either because the shoreline has changed, or because the -dijk element somehow retained its more generic sense of "earthwork, ditch".RedheadDane said:But does the town have a dijk?
Or are/were the Dutch as ridiculous when it comes to naming towns? I mean, don't tell me the town is in the middle of the frikkin' Limburg province!