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Coming up with new names is hard
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Wait until you learn a second language and start learning town names in a new country. Here we have such amazing town names like “The Eyebrow” and “Camp”.
(I just chose the silliest ones I know, there are normal town names too)
Reminds me of this 😁
There's a city in Ukraine named, literally, "The Curved Horn" (Кривий Ріг)
That's a pretty cool name
Yeah, towns where i live are literally translated to boytown and lame crap like that
Try "settlement"
Germany has Katzenhirn - cat brain.
Katzenelnbogen, too - cat's elbow.
I like this more than toponyms ending with -pol, -tsk, -nsk, -rsk, and to a lesser extent -iv. It sounds unique and original, not following a template, and somehow fantasy-books-like as it suggests what people probably did there.
On the other hand, Ukraine has it's own New York too, just like in OP, and it inspired a lot of memes.
A lot of place names in English speaking countries are just names of natural or man-made features, but the etymology isn't obvious. Like Portsmouth or Waterford are pretty understandable, but -don, -den, -ton (valley, hill, farm) are all just things.
The Eyebrow's pretty cool though. Japan's also got some good ones, like Thousand Leaves, Oak (just oak), or (loosely translated) Noodle Hill. They like numbers too, like Eight Door or Lake Twelve. There's even a Silent Hill, but it's not too silent these days with almost 700,000 people there.
Ah, yes, Ramenfuji!
That's Mr. Ramenfuji to you-- no melons no lemon!
The actual place is Morioka if you were curious.
We got dead cow, toast meat, nose, of the blacks, beautiful old lady, triangle, burnt car and drowned kids.