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Trump Part 17

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Every time I despair of the UK, along comes Trump, to remind me that American clowns are a lot funnier than our home grown ones.
 
matthewr said:
Well then it would be King King in English. Honestly, the whole thing is a minefield.
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Mind blown. It’s good thing I have today off, as I doubt I could have gotten any work done. :)
 
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matthewr said:
Well then it would be King King in English. Honestly, the whole thing is a minefield.
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You’ve lost me, sorry. If we assume the ‘surname’ is ‘Kong’ then the title/honorific makes him Kong Kong in Danish, but King Kong in English, surely?
 
Sue Pertwee-Tyr said:
You’ve lost me, sorry. If we assume the ‘surname’ is ‘Kong’ then the title/honorific makes him Kong Kong in Danish, but King Kong in English, surely?
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Because it's not a literal translation and you want the two different sounds in the name to avoid it sounding stupid. We are not sending him something in the post :)
 
matthewr said:
Because it's not a literal translation and you want the two different sounds in the name to avoid it sounding stupid. We are not sending him something in the post :)
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Send him a piece of turf in the post with a label saying “Greenland” and he will be happy, you never know he may take to wearing it instead of the ridiculous syrup he currently has, be an improvement.

*edit, syrup, UK slang term for wig as in “syrup of figs == wig”
 
matthewr said:
Because it's not a literal translation and you want the two different sounds in the name to avoid it sounding stupid. We are not sending him something in the post :)
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There was an interesting piece about word order in Fry’s English Delight a week or two ago, on Radio 4.

Apparently there is a hierarchy for adjectives, and also some understood order for vowel sounds. It’s something we learn quite unconsciously, but it is consistent. So, we get a ‘big bad wolf’ not a ‘bad big wolf’, and a beautiful, antique, red wooden door’ not a ‘wooden, beautiful, red antique door’ for example.

It’s probably why ‘King Kong’ works, but ‘Kong King’ doesn’t, at least not in English.
 
matthewr said:
Because it's not a literal translation and you want the two different sounds in the name to avoid it sounding stupid. We are not sending him something in the post :)
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This Danish fact of which you speak, it's...umm...not very facty is it? What with all these convoluted big ape references, I'm away with the fay wrays.
 
I was told of this "fact" in a pub by a woman who once had a Danish boyfriend. I cannot link to a formal Wikipedia reference.
 
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I wonder what Trump is trying to hide while the press are running with the Greenland nonsense?

Really, the media should ignore him unless it’s actually stuff that matters.

Stephen
 
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