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I like Jakarta, Manila, and New York the most. Mumbai and Dhaka are the ugliest names
Manila and Dhaka remind me strange things...
"Manilha" is the Portuguese word for "shackle". And Dhaka reminds me of Dako, a defunct brazilian brand of kitchen stuff.
I don't like the city names in Latin America.
"Mexico City"... could somewhat be more boring than this? Think Paris being called "France City". The older name, "Tenochtitlán", was much more interesting.
"Panamá City", "Guatemala City", "Belize City": same of Mexico City.
"São Paulo"... nothing more than "Saint Paul". Brazilian cities in the colonial times were founded often following the scheme "Saint Foo of Bar", or "Our Lady of Foo and Bar". SP and Rio were not different. São Paulo was originally called "São Paulo de Piratininga", while Rio was "São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro" and Salvador was nothing less than "São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos" (The Holy Saviour of The Bay of All Saints) - "Bahia" was later used for naming the state. São Paulo could be shortened to Piratininga. Which is also still boring if you speak Tupi, because this word stands for "dry fish".
"Buenos Aires": "Good Airs". More funny than boring.
"Caracas": it's an euphemism for a profanity in Portuguese and, I guess, also in Spanish.
"Lima": in Portuguese, is the name of a variety of orange and a surname almost as common as "Smith" in english-speaking countries.
"Cochabamba": I prefer not even to say what this word sounds like in Portuguese.
"Sucre": stands for sugar, in French. A good name for a city with economy based on sugarcane, or where people is extremely polite ("sweetheart"), or where all its inhabitants suffer of diabetes, or something like this.
"Quito": a phantom city, which all its inhabitants had to QUIT, because it had a lot of mosQUITOes.
The only major city in Latin America with a really good sounding name is "Montevideo", with "Tegucigalpa" and "Guayaquil" coming after.
Last edited by Fabio SBA; 11-16-2017 at 08:32 AM..
^^Yes, I agree. I wish Mexico City was still Tenochtitlán. Mexico City doesn't do that great city justice. Mesoamerica had great names: Chichen Itza, Tikal, Teotihuacan, Tlaxcala, etc.
From the list, I would say Tokyo, Seoul, Cairo, & Jakarta sound cool. Others I like: Rio de Janeiro, Yangon (like the translation: "The End of Strife"), Paris, Chicago, Algiers, Madrid, London & Xi'an.
I don't like the city names in Latin America.
"Mexico City"... could somewhat be more boring than this? Think Paris being called "France City". The older name, "Tenochtitlán", was much more interesting.
"Panamá City", "Guatemala City", "Belize City": same of Mexico City.
"São Paulo"... nothing more than "Saint Paul". Brazilian cities in the colonial times were founded often following the scheme "Saint Foo of Bar", or "Our Lady of Foo and Bar". SP and Rio were not different. São Paulo was originally called "São Paulo de Piratininga", while Rio was "São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro" and Salvador was nothing less than "São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos" (The Holy Saviour of The Bay of All Saints) - "Bahia" was later used for naming the state. São Paulo could be shortened to Piratininga. Which is also still boring if you speak Tupi, because this word stands for "dry fish".
"Buenos Aires": "Good Airs". More funny than boring.
"Caracas": it's an euphemism for a profanity in Portuguese and, I guess, also in Spanish.
"Lima": in Portuguese, is the name of a variety of orange and a surname almost as common as "Smith" in english-speaking countries.
"Cochabamba": I prefer not even to say what this word sounds like in Portuguese.
"Sucre": stands for sugar, in French. A good name for a city with economy based on sugarcane, or where people is extremely polite ("sweetheart"), or where all its inhabitants suffer of diabetes, or something like this.
"Quito": a phantom city, which all its inhabitants had to QUIT, because it had a lot of mosQUITOes.
The only major city in Latin America with a really good sounding name is "Montevideo", with "Tegucigalpa" and "Guayaquil" coming after.
Are you kidding, I love many of the names in Latin American cities, aside from the boring ones like MX or Sao Paulo
Here are some good ones:
- Buenos Aires
- Valparaiso
- Maracaibo
- Florianopolis
- Belo Horizonte
- Porto Alegre
- Rio de Janeiro
- Arequipa
- Montevideo
- Guayaquil
- Ushuaia
- Lima
- Piura
- Fortaleza
- Aracaju
Cairo! Nice name. Manila, sounds like Ice Cream, All Sao Paulo is, translated into English is St. Paul, Tokyo is pretty cool, Like Beijing also, has a nice ring too it Shanghai and New York are ok, Seoul reminds me of it
Mumbai is a Hideous name, I like it's old name ( Bombay) much better. Jakarta is ugly, doesn't really roll off the tongue that well, Delhi remains me of a Subway Sandwich, or some lunch mwar6 you have
Oh Dear Lord, I think I was Drunk and Fell Asleep while writing this Post. Let Me Correct My Self, I'm Sober Now Lol.
Cairo! Nice name. Manila, sounds like Ice Cream, All Sao Paulo is, translated into English is St. Paul, Tokyo is pretty cool, Like Beijing also, has a nice ring too it Shanghai and New York are ok, Seoul reminds of Soul, Like a Human Soul, Or the Slang Term You've Got Soul
Mumbai is a Hideous name, I like it's old name ( Bombay) much better. Jakarta is ugly, doesn't really roll off the tongue that well, Delhi remains me of a Subway Sandwich, or so type of Lunch Meat
Oh Dear Lord, I think I was Drunk and Fell Asleep while writing this Post. Let Me Correct My Self, I'm Sober Now Lol.
Cairo! Nice name. Manila, sounds like Ice Cream, All Sao Paulo is, translated into English is St. Paul, Tokyo is pretty cool, Like Beijing also, has a nice ring too it Shanghai and New York are ok, Seoul reminds of Soul, Like a Human Soul, Or the Slang Term You've Got Soul
Mumbai is a Hideous name, I like it's old name ( Bombay) much better. Jakarta is ugly, doesn't really roll off the tongue that well, Delhi remains me of a Subway Sandwich, or so type of Lunch Meat
Jakarta is ugly for you but not necessarily for others
Jakarta one nice is sound of the most . I personally love the name of the city of "Washington, D.C." so cool and sound really stunning !
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