Names in different countries

century264 · Post by **century264** » 05 Nov 2008 12:15

If I were to say a link to someone from poland, spain, mexico, or any other footbag country that doesn't speak english, would Whirl>tomahawk be the same, or would it be a different set of words that mean the same? Like in spanish is it still atw, or is it cerca del mundo? Just wondering

Asmus · Post by **Asmus** » 05 Nov 2008 13:32

I'm pretty sure it's the same in pretty much the same in every country.

In Denmark we have a few personal nicknames for some tricks for example:
Ribbensteg - Which is pork loin translated but obviously it's our name for Ripstein.

max · Post by **max** » 05 Nov 2008 14:37

yeah we have a a couple of bastardized words in France too, but they're just for fun.

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 06 Nov 2008 12:48

Same in Japan. US names, just pronounced a little funny, plus a couple bastardized variants for fun.

ville · Post by **ville** » 06 Nov 2008 22:26

The same in Finnish

Ners · Post by **Ners** » 07 Nov 2008 06:18

Although it may be surprising, in Poland we use US names, with different pronounciation and we have a couple of bastardized words.

Rhip - vahl - kh

Pozdrawiam
Szymon KaÅ‚wak (Ners)

century264 · Post by **century264** » 07 Nov 2008 07:33

Very cool. You see, I'm planning on doing a presentation on footbag for my spanish class, because as bad as I am at spanish, I can at least perform and maybe that will help my grade. I was just wondering if I was going to have to PM a spanish player to help me with move names haha.

t_Arquino · Post by **t_Arquino** » 08 Nov 2008 14:36

mmm in Colombia we use english names with different pronounciation, but we say "vuelta al mundo" for atw, "pinzas" to squeeze and "pendulo" for Pendulum.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 08 Nov 2008 14:40

my name is pedro in espanish.

edit and! if you add "-ito" to the end of it its like a sign of affection and means little. like pedrito means "little peter"