My fellows why this outdrawn discussion of whether using accents are stupid or not? I feel like you are all talking over each other and intentionally looking to misinterpret the other party to keep the argument going. Not accusing anyone in particular here at all but… Maybe I am missing the point.
I do think old norse names are quite nice, also being scandinavian myself, but i usually use the anglicized variants when using such names and phrases rather than old norse personally. Both are nice though, I just don’t use accents myself simply out of personal preference. You could also if you wish look at old norse and build your own unique name by playing around with letters and words. It won’t be quite as authentic or have a “mythological canon” but a fun way to get creative. Or maybe “norsify” your own name.
I wanted to have an elvish name with the ending -êth (I have a druid named Ruinêth as well), because I feel it better represents the way it should be said (harder or more pronounced e for example). But when it’s used wrong, like ß, it tends to visually bother me.
Why it is stupid? I mean many European languages and names have those “odd” letters in them by default. Plenty of my characters have accented letters and it really doe snot impact their dps. Sometime sit would be awkward not to use an accented letter.
I have a character with ê or even few because I lived at time in country where those names were written like that. And back on vanilla days then someone thought I had copied their name by purpose while I just had written name just as I saw it in a museum exhibition advertisement on my way home. Same with my druids name, where it is a an actual druid priestesses name and was written with odd letter in it.
Also in my1 st language “accented” letters are not accented letters, they are actual letters. Like äöü etc etc. Its not same as aou, they are read differently and can change whole meaning of word.
I’ve spent hours talking to a person that asked similar questions. I’ve answered your question multiple times already in this very thread. Feel free to look them up in here.
That’s just intentionally misinterpreting my statement. Which is quite stupid. But I’m well aware that there’s genuinely no point in talking to you at all about this topic, so to be honest, keep it going or not, I don’t care.
I’ve literally stated, several times, that proper uses of special characters regarding different languages is totally fine, but using it to simply choose common names that are already taken isn’t.
Illídân, Týrande, and so on.
Everything else you’re saying, how I’m saying cultural things are stupid, how all of the languages are stupid, is simply wrong and shows your failure of reading comprehension.
Let me help you here:
So I’ll repeat it again: No matter what language uses special characters, no matter what culture, all that jazz is completly fine. Doesn’t matter if it’s cyrillic, one of the many different asian characters, if it uses the greek alphabet, or if it uses the german vowels with two dots above them.
However, Mälfüriön, Îllídàn, Gûldán, and so on? Incredibly silly and lazy.
Get my point? No, obviously not but that’s fine, not everybody can get it.
This’ll be my last reply towards you here, don’t bother replying if you’ll just repeat the same thing over and over again without acknowledging anything I wrote.
I have. But as I’ve said before, which you’ve probably not read
Good for you that you’ve never seen it happen. A friend of mine has never queued LFD in their 10+ years of playing WoW without being in a party of at least three people. He probably never has seen it happen either. Another friend got kicked in their very first dungeon and doesn’t know why until today.
People get kicked for all kinds of, or sometimes even no reason from LFG.
See my dozen replies to Thyri where I say they don’t. Now they and you keep coming back with that same point, it’s quite tiresome, really.
And I’ve known a person called Owldspice with several special characters that effectively got bullied for their name. If you want to look up the exact spelling, just scroll up a bit. Anecdotal evidence isn’t really helpful to support either point. Neither my experience nor yours is more or less true than the other. It’s simply different experience.
So the conclusion is “I don’t like it, therefore nobody else should either, and it’s stupid because I say so”.
If it was so common to dislike it, don’t you think we would have seen a lot less of these names around? They are pretty common. I don’t personally use it, because I don’t appreciate special letters either, but I don’t think it’s stupid that others use them either.
No, the conclusion is, I don’t like an overabundance of special characters, I’ve seen people get bullied and kicked due to them and I’ve seen and heard people make fun of people named “Îllîdân” or similar multiple times, even in trade chat.
Honestly, no. If 50% of people dislike it, there’s still 50% who don’t. Something being “common” can be as low as 5-10%. If one in 20, one in each Mythic raid, dislikes something, would you call it common or not? I would call it rather common. I mean there’s rarely more than 2 DHs in a Mythic raid, which is 10%, and I consider them to be pretty damn common.
And I’m pretty sure more than 5%, which is obviously just an estimate with no evidence to back it up, of people would consider the name “Îllîdân” to be stupid, silly or lazy. So I’d say it’s pretty common.
Before, you said that Øwlðspîçë was stupid. Now you’re saying that using a variant of the name from the official lore (like ïlîdàan) is stupid.
And I even don’t think that Îlîdàan is stupid, in fact. It’s not like parents never named their children after famous people of the history (Alexander, Alex, Sandra, Aliénor, Alyenor, Eleonore, etc).
Also, I don’t fail to understand what you’re saying. But you fail to understand my point regarding name evolution.
Sorry i had read thread before my 1st coffee and may have jumped on conclusions before actually reading. Yes. I get your point, sorry for my hasty response earlier. Just somehow it reminded me past conversations (years back) where someone attacked me for my character name that had relatively complex letter Ÿ and it was suggested I did it to avoid being reported or whatnot. yet the fun part was it was name of a real person - as I said earlier post, druidic priest. And the none accented letter name also belonged to me.
And then i was really amused by the peoples recation. Just like when i had name with  - but because the historical figure was written like that. It reffered to long ‘aa’ in that language and me using double a would have made the name feel wrong. Also had someone comment the name as copy-catism. Now I have also characters with Î and Ë but its more to reffer to my own alts in same realm. Whereas originals are with I and E.
I agree about Mälfüriön’s and others considering its odd, when your language (like mine) as ä and ö, and I read the name not like mal-fur-ion, but closer to mael-fuer-ieon. Which completely butchers the name and feels weird.
I like people who have named their characters after famous lore characters, but smartly - like I smile when Lillidan runs around. Sound like Lolidan, but is classier. ïlîdàan does sound kind of stupid though. And that coming from someeone, who has death knight named as lore character, just not from English client :>
All’s good, the “get my point” wasn’t directed at you anyway.
I also probably came across as too harsh, most of these posts were written during a nightshift for me, so I was kind of tired, so I’ll apologize for that.
Also I have like 15+ characters in same realm/s. Imagine the naming hurdles! So in one realm I am like (just random example to show pattern) Ra Re Ré Rè Râ although in Legion I evolved, I started to use random 2 letter combinations to see what was available. I like 2 letter names. In Legion my 2 letter names started with A, and then random 2nd letter that was available. In SL i maybe start names with I and or L and see what sticks.
In Legion my 2 letter names started with A, and then random 2nd letter that was available. In SL i maybe start names with I and or L and see what sticks.