So "castlevania" is a pretty silly title when you get down to it

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• Tatterhood

  2017-02-11 23:07:38

  tru
• Fossilmaiden

  2017-02-11 23:08:30

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  It's better than Devil's Castle Dracula.
  
• Imipolex G

  2017-02-11 23:09:48

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  it's better than Dammit I Just Got Knocked in a Bottomless Pit by a Medusa Head Again Why the Fuck Do I Play This
  
• Bee

  2017-02-11 23:13:24 edited 2017-02-11 23:14:52

  Yeah turns out "-vania" doesn't actually mean anything.  The operative root in Transylvania was "sylvan" which has nothing to do with vampires or anything.

  
  

  Devil's Castle Dracula is the usual blind translation grammatical mess but at least it's accurate.
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-02-11 23:13:31

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  ^That's why you only play the 2D Zeldas
• Fossilmaiden

  2017-02-11 23:17:06

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  I mean, it's not very accurate either. Like, there's a castle, and a Dracula, but the devil isn't involved at all. :|
  
• Tre

  2017-02-11 23:42:53

  
  

  Bee said:

  The operative root in Transylvania was "sylvan" which has nothing to do with vampires or anything.

  
• Vriska

  2017-02-12 01:51:09

  8luh 8luh.

  "Megalovania" is a good title though.

  
  

  And an awesome song.
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-02-12 02:42:14

  Actually "The Demon Castle of Dracula" or "Dracula's Demon Castle" might be more accurate but still grammatical.
  
• Viani

  2017-02-12 03:12:30

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  "Trans-" trāns ‎(“on the other side of”).

  "Sylvan-" From Medieval Latin sylvanus, from Latin Silvanus ‎(“god of the woods”), from silva ‎(“forest”)

  -ia suffix denoting "of" or "belonging to"

  >

  "Castle" (A place where bowsers bowse)

  "vania" (Basically a chopped version of sylvan) meaningless

  >

  Castlevania (Portmandeau of Transylvanian Castle)

  
  

  Why am i doing this.
• Calica

  2017-02-12 05:33:22

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  sylveon
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-02-12 09:22:51

  silviculture
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-02-12 09:23:01

  Sylvester Stallone
  
• Tre

  2017-02-12 19:59:40

  
  

  
• criminalscum

  2017-02-12 23:07:55

  This is also true of The Beatles.
  
• Imipolex G

  2017-02-12 23:11:42

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  *smack*
• Fossilmaiden

  2017-02-13 06:28:19

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  The Fordescorts didn't have the same ring to it.
• Salix Babylonika

  2017-02-13 16:38:54

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Bee said:

  Yeah turns out "-vania" doesn't actually mean anything.  The operative root in Transylvania was "sylvan" which has nothing to do with vampires or anything.

  
  

  Devil's Castle Dracula is the usual blind translation grammatical mess but at least it's accurate.

  "vania" means "land of", approximately

  
  

  trans-syl-vania = "land past the woods"
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-02-13 17:34:31

  land of the castle
  
  
  actually kinda appropriate especially for games like Cv3 and Ecclesia
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2017-02-13 17:35:14

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  probably even simpler would just be "Castleland"
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-02-13 17:37:57 edited 2017-02-13 17:40:07

  but it's the same sort of "misdone" portmanteauing that gives us the "foo-a-thon" terminology
  
  i.e. using "-athon" or "-a-thon" to refer to doing something for a long period of time, despite the fact that "marathon" is literally named after a town called Marathon (present-day population 33,423)
  
• Princess Alice

  2017-02-13 17:38:55

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I held a foo-a-thon once

  
  

  But then someone got THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST of me
• Vriska

  2017-02-15 00:19:58

  8luh 8luh.

  originally it was supposed to be cisylvania to be the opposite of transylvania

  
  

  but someone mispronounced it and it was heard as castlevania

  
  

  (kidding obvs lol)
• Calica

  2017-02-15 00:20:32

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  Central Avenue said:

  I held a foo-a-thon once

  
  

  But then someone got THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST of me

  I've got another confession to make
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-02-15 00:30:43

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Calica said:

  sylveon

  Best Poké.
  
• Vriska

  2017-02-15 00:37:24

  8luh 8luh.

  Sylveon is super cute.
• Calica

  2017-02-15 00:44:06

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  Sredni Vashtar said:

  Calica said:

  sylveon

  Best Poké.
  

  https://twitter.com/sl2c/status/800903394110029825
  
• Bee

  2017-02-15 01:52:52 edited 2017-02-15 02:40:12

  Jane said:

  Bee said:

  Yeah turns out "-vania" doesn't actually mean anything.  The operative root in Transylvania was "sylvan" which has nothing to do with vampires or anything.

  
  

  Devil's Castle Dracula is the usual blind translation grammatical mess but at least it's accurate.

  "vania" means "land of", approximately

  
  

  trans-syl-vania = "land past the woods"

  Actually, it's just appending "-a" or "-ia" that does that, as it's a common practice in Latin to refer to countries as feminine.  Look how many countries today follow that scheme, particularly the ones that used to be part of the Roman empire, or got settled by Europe during the Renaissance.  The name does roughly mean "land beyond the woods", but it derives as trans-sylvan-ia.

  
  

  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/-ia
  

  
  

  The closest thing to a Latin translation of "vania" would be like "empty land" or something (from "vanus").  But that's more trying to retcon a name that didn't have meaning to begin with, because they were pretty clearly just trying to evoke two-cent imagery of Transylvanian vampires without knowing where the name actually came from.

  
  

  Which is a shame because "Castle of the Empty Land" kind of sounds badass.