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[-] Xande@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In the german books it is Entenhausen (duckhouse).

Hier wäre Mannheim komisch...

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 17 points 2 months ago

In Danish it’s called Andeby which translates to: Ducktown.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

No Danish town called Mandeby, though 🤷

[-] cute_astronaut@feddit.dk 6 points 2 months ago

Shouldn't it be menneskeby?

We do have a Manderup, and even a Kvinder up.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Do we have ones called Manderip and Manderap, though?

[-] cute_astronaut@feddit.dk 4 points 2 months ago

That's a missed opportunity, we should have

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

In Italian it's Paperopoli (Duckopolis)

[-] carotte 16 points 2 months ago

in french it’s either donaldville or canardville (duckville) depending on the media and translation

but while finding this, I learned that french wikipedia has a page for the town (english wikipedia doesn’t) and it has a whole infobox as if it were a real town lmao

Screenshot of the french Wikipedia infobox for Donaldville, showing information such as location (Calisota, United States), demonym (Donaldvillois), population (1'300'000), coordinates, date of founding (1579) and date of receiving municipality status (1848), and position on the map.

[-] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

The whole town is named after Donald, but he's just some loser schlub....

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

It's gotta be a lot older than him, too. Maybe it was some other Donald.

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

For Spanish its either Patoburgo (Duckburg) or Patópolis (Duckopolis) in Spain, Patolandia (Duckland) in the Americas

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago
[-] Xande@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Hausen is a no longer used word for nameing settlements. It can describe a multiple house village or a hamlet. Houses is plural. The plural of Haus is Häuser.

Used as a verb "hausen" is a derogatory term for living in a chaotic dirty and unclean way.

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