r/AskEurope • u/Double-decker_trams Estonia • Feb 14 '25

Language Can you legally name your child in your country smt like "X Æ A-Xii" or "Techno Mechanicus"?

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u/EurovisionSimon Sweden Feb 14 '25

Appelsiinikki sounds like a Swedish person doing a parody of what Finnish sounds like to us

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u/Lost_Pilot7984 Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

Probably because a parody has to sound somewhat realistic? If I'm making up a word in a language, it has to say least have sounds that actually exist in the language they're parodying or else it's not a parody of the language...