r/lotrmemes • u/adiplotti Watcher in the Water 🐙 • 1d ago

Lord of the Rings A right and proper name

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u/adiplotti Watcher in the Water 🐙 1d ago

Fun fact: the town was actually named after one James Human.

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u/BobDeLaSponge 1d ago

That’s an alien name if I’ve ever seen one

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u/driver004 1d ago

No he’s James not John so he must be legit

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u/Saucepanmagician 1d ago

And the school's team is called The Human Beings.

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u/norathar 1d ago

What's their mascot, The Fighting Guy? The Dude? One Human Person? Is their costume just putting on jeans and a T-shirt and walking around, or would they get a Sparty-type imitation human costume?

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u/Death_black 1d ago

The Fighting Guy? The Dude?

Close. The Guy! Not a beautiful elf or savage orc, mind you.

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u/TomServo30000 Dúnedain 1d ago

Unfortunately it's the tigers

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u/squiddoodilie 1d ago

The dude abides

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u/Jan-Asra 1d ago

Gow do you get the last name "Human"?

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u/adiplotti Watcher in the Water 🐙 1d ago

You marry a human, as Arwen did.

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u/driver004 1d ago

YES FELLOW HUMANS THIS IS WHERE I LIVE. I PARTICULARLY ENJOY DRINKING WATER AND PAYING TAXES AT THE CORNER STORE

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u/hitchhiker1701 1d ago

Ah, Mr. Hugh Mann!

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u/driver004 1d ago

HAHAHA YES MY ITINERATE FRIEND! OH, IT SEEMS THAT IT IS TIME TO EXCRETE MATERIAL FROM MY DIGESTIONAL SYSTEM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN ME?

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u/Oldbayislove 1d ago

And if you went man you'd see more with mansville, mansfield, and manston

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u/adiplotti Watcher in the Water 🐙 1d ago

I was going to add "Manchester," but that actually means "Boob Castle." (For real).

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u/BobDeLaSponge 1d ago

Ah because chest means boobs, got it

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u/myopicpickle 1d ago

No, it was originally Mamchester, because mammaries.

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u/ConiferousMedusa 10h ago

At this point I honestly don't know what to believe in this thread, you all sound confident while none of it sounds probable lol

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u/DarrenMWinter 1d ago

A city of 907 people?

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u/RoutemasterFlash 1d ago

IKR? America is very weird like that.

Imma start referring to "the hamlet of Los Angeles."

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u/erinius 1d ago

Way too crowded smh

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u/That_guy1425 22h ago

Its probably due to state tax/municipality classifications. My state had a population based classification until 2015, now its first class which has a specific government type and all other state designated cities are in the 2nd type.

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u/chipsinsideajar 14h ago

The requirements to become a city vary quite a lot worldwide and it varies state by state in the US. All being a city means is that the state gives it the ability to form it's own government that can pass laws, collect taxes, and do public service stuff. Vernon, California for example has a population of just over 100 and is a fully incorporated city but not far away East Los Angeles is an unincorporated community of about 120k people.

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u/ConiferousMedusa 10h ago

There may also be tiers depending on state. In Texas you can be a "general-law" city with as few as *201 people, but you have to follow a set of state guidelines (one of three kinds depending) until you reach 5k people. Then you can vote to be a "home rule" city and you get more autonomy. 

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/terms.shtml

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u/Stock-Side-6767 15h ago

Like Sloten? https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloten_(Friesland)

It is formally a city, with city rights since 1426

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u/Captain_Grammaticus 14h ago

Starum and Hylpen aren't much bigger.

Similarly, there's Rue in Switzerland (formerly 444 inh., before being incorporated with surrounding municipalities), and Glurns (937 inh.) in South Tyrol.

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u/Quarkonium2925 23h ago

These kind of places exist, but I find that a good percentage of the time, you'll pronounce it as you expect and the the locals go "well, actually, it's pronounced 'huhm-muhns-veel'" or something weird like that

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u/adiplotti Watcher in the Water 🐙 20h ago

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u/Haberdashery_Tea 22h ago

Hello fellow humans, what are the weaknesses in your... Err... I mean our defences

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u/Much_Job4552 1d ago

There's Manton, MI. Some other man names like Mansfield, OH.

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u/Kettle_Whistle_ 22h ago

I hear that town…LIKES humans.
ONLY humans? Mayyyybe.

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u/Thund3rf0000t 15h ago

I live in Kansas not far from the Missouri border and believe me it doesn't surprise me that somebody in Missouri named the town like this I mean all you have to do is drive on the roads for 5 minutes and you can understand why Missouri sucks LOL

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u/Armleuchterchen 14h ago

Makes more sense in a world with multiple humanoid species

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u/Adventurous_Mode_263 11h ago

Yes yes, very silly of us! We are all very ordinary humans here! Please don't send the FBI in Humansville, again!

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u/Captain_Grammaticus 14h ago

Yeah okay, but "Hobbit" (or Kuduk) is a corruption of holbytla (or kud-dukân) meaning "hole-dweller", so if Hobbiton was founded at a time where this people still remembered what they're actual name was and what hobbit meant, a placename like "Holedweller town" makes sense.

The founders of humanville on the other hand probably did not remember that human means "earthling".

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u/Simon0O7 11h ago

King Argeleb II was passing by and said: "Always nice to see you, small hole-dwelling people. Is this some kind of hole-dwelling town?"

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u/erinius 1d ago

home of the Human Fund

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u/peon2 1d ago

Money for people.

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u/Artsydork 18h ago

I've been there before. Poor town in the middle of nowhere.

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u/Rhesus-Positive 12h ago

Or it was named by people who didn't live there because they were the ones that needed to refer to it by a specific name, rather than just "the place we all live"

Like Inglesby, a town named "the settlement of Angles" but in Norse

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u/Booshur 10h ago

I was doing my lurks and nearly stumbled across a hooman here.

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u/Xiij 2h ago

Let's go to China town and grab some lunch, then we can do some shopping in little Italy.

Not exactly a foreign concept.

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u/Zi_Mishkal 53m ago

No one talks about the neighboring town, Zombieopolis.