I know a fair few people whom do so?
They have a hard to pronounce in English name, so they go by its English equivelent.
That said, WoW names are weird as hell.
Why is Sylvanas, Sylvanas Windrunner in Elven, Common and Orcish?
Why isn’t her last name something all fancy and elven which means Windrunner in High Elf?
Is her last name actually something completly different in High Elf and it just sounds like Windrunner in common?
My father knows a guy who completely changed pronunciation of his surname when he was in England.
He had a good reason, though, because his surname was pronounced Gaydosh (Gejdoš in Slovak, I wrote it that way to make it easier to understand why he did not want to reveal it).
Lor’themar Theron is a hot example that comes to mind of elves using Thalassian surnames. Their very racial leader.
It’s really not unfounded. Personally I avoid them most of the time simply because it’s hard to come up with a Thalassian surname that rolls right off the tongue in conjunction with the first name. Many are good on their own. Few work when combined into a full name.
Looking at other Bloodelf/Highelf names, I think his last name is actually two words. Like Wind Runner and so on.
The Ron.
The Ron posting continues.
Probably, yes, but then Elven names are weird, I mean Lor’themar Theron is Theron in both Thalassian and Common, but perhaps that is because there is no direct translation for his name in Common, whereas Elves like Kael’thas and Sylvanas have names that -do- have a direct translation into common, as both the words ‘Sun’ and ‘Strider’ are words in that language. As an Example, if I used my surname to a Frenchman or German person, it would just be a sound, with no meaning, but if I use it in English, it is actually an archaic word with a meaning, if I use it in Scotland it is a word with a -different- meaning, but in both languages it is a word. Maybe Theron is a word that simply means nothing in Common, but is a word in Thalassian. (although apparently it does mean ‘Hunter’ in Greek). So yeah, ‘Windrunner’ probably does sound different in spoken Thalassian, but because it has a general translation that the other races will know her by, she tends to use that, instead of whatever the Thalassian version sounds like.
That would be my guess anyway.
Don’t think about it too hard - Blizzard sure didn’t.
Velves are one of the main reasons I can’t stomach Alliance as it stands right now - it’s so corrupt. As a faction it’s utterly compromised. I honestly want to go back to a friendly, clean blue team of Dwarves, Gnomes and Nelves.
And nothing more than those three races. Amen.
This could act as a default response to most discussions in regards to RP.
Don’t you guys know that “Sunstrider” is thalassian for “He Who Walks the Sun”?
Which is so stupid that I don´t think anyone recognizes it in their RP. Honestly, whoever came up with that crap was either drunk, high or so stupid they were unable to realize that surname made out of two English words should not be actual phrase in Elven language.
It would be like having word “longbowman” in Spanish, but it would mean “man whose bow is really long”.
Surprise it was wrote by Blizzard
I know (in 10 characters)
Wasn’t that Dath’remar’s actual name though, or his epithet, hence becoming the family Dynasty?
But then, let us not forget, in Orcish. “We called him Heart of Draenor, it means Heart of Draenor, in Orcish”
Nope, it´s actually stated somewhere that Sunstrider means “He Who Walks the Sun”.
Well, I mean I suppose they aren’t wrong…
Actually, most racist characters (95% of them humans) are so not because of any egregious events, but rather because your character must have at least one major, obvious flaw to be taken seriously for some reason, and when every other human around you is racist too, it’s a safe one.
And if you ever meet a night elf, draenei or void elf, well, no skin off your nose. You and your 7 human friends can just be incredibly, uncomfortably as*hole-ish to the character and player, most likely do violent things (murder comes easy), and then feel good about how flawed your characters are and how that makes you great roleplayers. Meanwhile, the server continues being terrible because these people for some reason continue to exist, and continue to think their excuse of a character is justified.
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