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171708.13 in reply to 171708.11
Date: 1/21/2011 11:14:44 PM
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Ok that makes sense because if Drdhayudna is a common Aussie name then I am greatly uninformed.


It might not be perfect but every Australia player is based on an Australian citizen so it's not like any of the names are just picked at random or made up in any way (and this is the same for every country). I agree that the stereotypical or more common country names could probably be increased a bit but none of them are made up.

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Date: 1/22/2011 11:59:47 AM
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explain trin trin. that is not even a proper name.

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i've did a tl search only including nationality lithuanian as a filter. 5 of 10 players had a first name that doesnt show up in any lithuania names database on internet. 1 of them is russian name. 3 of them are very rare. only one is right and used in Lithuania. :) that isn't funny, but it makes me smile :)

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My Grandfather was born and emigrated from Lithuania and I am upset that I have not seen a Sokas at all in any of the players I've encountered. Is that a common name?

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Sokas as a first name wouldn't be anything like lithuanian names. but as a last name, it would be uncommon, but possible.

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They're all Final Fantasy fans.

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In the case of European nations it would be specific to each nations use of the roman alphabet or others. If the way teh roman althabet is used for the official language there is radically different then names from nearby nations I would imagine that immigrants would change their names to the spellings of their new nation once nationalized (gaining citizenship there) but maybe they would retain their previous nation/peoples last names and first names or religon. It really depends on teh nations.


In fact, that's exactly what happened in the past. Just a few examples:

Nowicky->Nowitzki (Polish->German)
Markwart->Marquard (German->French)
etc.

I agree with your sentiment on the hair colors of Asian people, and Japanese in particular. I had a blonde Japanese SF until recently. While that sure was fun, I don't think there are that many blonde Japanese guys around (I don't know a single Japanese who is blonde, and I do know quite a bunch). Giving them a 1% chance of being blonde or ginger seems ok to me, but any more than that sure seems very very unlikely.

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