Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogoch

[Hertsblue]

All these names are a) in a foreign language, and b) are actually descriptions of where the places are located. So, on that basis I could rename the town where I live as:

Thesmalldormitorytowninthemiddleofnowehere closebytheM25atthejunctionoftheA10oneithersideoftheroadtoCambridgewiththehugeTesco nearthegiantprintingworksofRupertMurdoch thatblightsourcountrysideformilesaround andcausestrafficjamstwiceadayonabusyroadwheneveryoneistryingtogettoworkorhome.... and so on. Translate that into Sanskrit and off we go.

Couldn't I?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Yes.
But please don't, could you imagine the sat nav...

Or this:
http://youtu.be/ACMcjbmniC8

Just cannot get links to work from t'ipad!

[FierceKitty]

But what does it mean Fierce Kitty?

Not a place description.
It means "The Capital City of Angels, The Residence of The Emerald Buddha, The Great City Impregnable, The Gracefulness of the city is steadfast and thriving, The Grand Capital which is abundant with The Nine Noble Gems, it is a Pleasant Capital, The City is abounding with the enormous Royal Palaces that resemble the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated God, Home of the Gods Incarnate, which was Erected by Vishnu at Indra's Orders".

Not surprisingly, "Krung Thep" to locals (= Los Angeles), and "Bangkok" to foreigners, though that's like calling London "Westminster" or New York "Manhattan".

[O Dinas Powys]

All these names are a) in a foreign language

ALL foreign?!

[O Dinas Powys]

Not a place description.
It means "The Capital City of Angels, The Residence of The Emerald Buddha, The Great City Impregnable, The Gracefulness of the city is steadfast and thriving, The Grand Capital which is abundant with The Nine Noble Gems, it is a Pleasant Capital, The City is abounding with the enormous Royal Palaces that resemble the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated God, Home of the Gods Incarnate, which was Erected by Vishnu at Indra's Orders".

Not surprisingly, "Krung Thep" to locals (= Los Angeles), and "Bangkok" to foreigners, though that's like calling London "Westminster" or New York "Manhattan".

Sounds like they're overcompensating for something?! 

[FierceKitty]

Sounds like they're overcompensating for something?! 

Well spotted. They made it the capital shortly after the Burmese had turned the old one, Ayyuthaya, from the largest city in the world to a heap of rubble with a population of about
10, 000.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ouch!

[Hertsblue]

ALL foreign?!

All foreign = not English.

[O Dinas Powys]

All foreign = not English.

...and I thought you said the Mail hated you! 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Lets get this right - the DM likes people form the puffy South East, or who have English passports and live abroad. Real English are not part of its demography at all.

IanS

[Fenton]

Can you get English passports?

[Techno]

 

[Hertsblue]

Not a place description.
It means "The Capital City of Angels, The Residence of The Emerald Buddha, The Great City Impregnable, The Gracefulness of the city is steadfast and thriving, The Grand Capital which is abundant with The Nine Noble Gems, it is a Pleasant Capital, The City is abounding with the enormous Royal Palaces that resemble the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated God, Home of the Gods Incarnate, which was Erected by Vishnu at Indra's Orders".

And that isn't a description? 

[fsn]

Kind of puts "Nottingham" - "the village of Snot" - into the shade.

However, these are all outshone by the Shetland place name "Twatt".

[FierceKitty]

And that isn't a description? 

While I like living in the place, that name is no description.  Kyoto Bangkok is not.