Yeah, I just found "hamlet" on Wikipedia as well. On the other hand, "village" can apparently mean [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_(United_States)]just about anything[/url] in the US, depending on which state you are in.

The list is not in Alphabetical order... :/

The feature to PM ourselves is a nice touch.

Multiple personality people still will have to receive messages... from the other. :P

well, they do have the village people

...also find an amount of humour in someone from Denmark not thinking of Hamlet! ;)

Oh. My. God.

I always wanted to PM myself

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/does_it_bother_anyone_else_that_you_cant_send_a_pm_to_yourself

I'm not surprised by the popularity of such a feature. :D

This is a dream come true *sob*

Now my ghost can be at peace, and can move on to the Great Beyond.

edit: Oops, I blocked myself. How do I undo??

Well, given that the word has no meaning in Danish, and that the name of the prince in the Danish legend that Shakespeare based his play on was Amled, not Hamlet, it's maybe understandable after all ;-)

But seriously, as a non-native English speaker, the word "hamlet" in the meaning "small settlement" is not one you come across very often, so it's not the first thing you think of.

Actually, it's an interesting phenomenon. There are tons of perfectly ordinary everyday words in English that I simply don't know, because they are words that are hardly ever used in neither books, TV nor movies. Things like kitchen utensils, plants and animals, that are actually quite common, but just uncommon enough to almost never be mentioned outside of "daily life". I can probably write lengthy explanations in English about software development, genetics and astrophysics (among many other things), but I have no idea what the kitchen utensil used for chopping parsley is called in English, despite the fact that I have one in my kitchen. The Danish name translates directly to "parsley chopper" (we're simple people), but for all I know, it may be called something completely different.

heheh!
...and yet Amled is very nearly the same thing in terms of phonetic hearing* - which kinda relates to another thread on here (and I wont go too deep) of recent, but you do realise your language and english are irrevocably intertwined I presume. the greater part of english comes from mashing old nordic language, french and celtic together - and a great deal of dialect and accents here have evolved from it as a result.

anyways, my net will be cutting out in about an hour (mobile broadband), so we'll have to pick this up later! (and im probably rambling already) Inabit! :)

*edit: will expand slightly on this fror those that don't already understand - Hamlet, 'Amlet (in Yorkshire and the North), Amled - makes sense now? - Its the glottle - and hence my dialect reference.

and yet there will be loads you do as well - sorry got on a tangent with the other bit, but this is what i was getting at.
damn brain got cooked by the sun today!

Certainly, I'm well aware that Danish and English have A) influenced each other, and B) been influenced by some of the same other languages.

Still, the fact that A) neither word has any meaning in Danish (at least that most modern people would know of) and B) both names are pronounced differently in Danish than in English, should lead to some sort of point, but I seem to have forgotten it somewhere during that sentence :-/

Anyway, language discussions are always fascinating to me. I do hope we can pick it up again later :-)

Shit, that is the last time I ever mention population. XD Look at you two go!

You love it ya slag!

Just FYI in the summer my town goes from 88 to a couple thousand so that is probably why they call it a town. Hey man, Arlo Guthry is going to be here in a few weeks; we're just like New York City!

or old york - comes here quite a bit

Edit: though i doubt your dwellings are built on viking shit

Thanks to this thread I finally got my first PM!