Before you ask (and let me pretend you're going to ask I know you don't care)

[Kalahari Inkantation]

My current namesake is interwar-era Sicilian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana.

and of course the obligatory cheap video game pun

You probably should care because he was such a cool fellow with an interesting history. And an absolute genius.

And yet totally overlooked - Chadwick's Nobel Prize could have and SHOULD have been Majorana's (but dear Ettore was also kind of a lazy schmuck and missed out, oh well).

Please read the Wikipedia article if you get the time.

[C.Mongler]

where the fuck is he anyway

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Argentina, apparently.

[C.Mongler]

i've never seen you and this guy in the same place before


coincidence??

[Kalahari Inkantation]

.............

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Also, I [glow=black,2,300]cheated[/glow] a little bit to make that portmanteau work.

[spoiler]

as a scilian name, majorana is actually pronounced something more like my-or-áhna, not madzhorá-na

oopsies[/spoiler]

Fun Fact™: the letter j doesn't even exist in the italian alphabet

ettore majorana just gets more and more enigmatic the deeper you dig

[Mando Pandango]

Fun Factâ,,¢: the letter j doesn't even exist in the italian alphabet

"gi" is used for that sound

Italian is so easy to pronounce on sight. Every letter is important. Makes me resent French that much more.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Fun Factâ,,¢: the letter j doesn't even exist in the italian alphabet

"gi" is used for that sound

but doesn't even that yield a phoneme pronounced more like dzhy than simply dzh

[Mando Pandango]

Fun Factâ,,¢: the letter j doesn't even exist in the italian alphabet

"gi" is used for that sound

but doesn't even that yield a phoneme pronounced more like dzhy than simply dzh

no*

*based solely on my observance of the language as someone who barely speaks any of it

[Kalahari Inkantation]

*based solely on my observance of the language as someone who barely speaks any of it

put that self-doubt away because you are correct

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giorno
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giudici
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gioco
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giacca

[Kalahari Inkantation]

also for the almost certain few of you who are pronouncing it 'muh-jÃ"r-uh-nuh' because of the game majora's mask, please listen to this

https://translate.google.com/#it/en/Majorana

left (italian) side, not right (damn ignorant americas))

[Mando Pandango]

*based solely on my observance of the language as someone who barely speaks any of it

put that self-doubt away because you are correct

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giorno
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giudici
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gioco
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giacca

nice

[Travis]

 i love the name Jacopo

[Kalahari Inkantation]

yákopo, right

[Travis]

yákopo, right

one of my band instructors in high school's last name was Iacoviello

imagine somebody called Jacopo/Iacopo Iacoviello

that'd be tight