• @Sweetpeaches69
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    62 hours ago

    English names tend do just get characters that sound phonetically like their English pronunciation. As such, a lot of names, especially longer ones, don’t mean anything. If you directly translated them, a lot of the time you’d get like “cabbage the horse wheel” or something.

    • JackbyDev
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      257 minutes ago

      So the characters are still words, right? As in not phonetics? Would it be like someone named Tristan getting the Spanish word Triste because it sounds like Tristan?

    • @Whats_your_reasoning
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      21 hour ago

      If you directly translated them, a lot of the time you’d get like “cabbage the horse wheel” or something.

      That reminds me of the “Password Strength” comic by xkcd. All right, it’s settled. Next time I need new password, I’m feeding random names into a phonetic name translator.