Hyperborea Pedantry

[archimes]

I've always heard people use other forms of the word Hyperborean, such as "Hyperborean." I have reason to believe this may be an incorrect form %%though%%.

I have observed how the adjective of "Borea," meaning "North," is actually "Boreal." Adding the prefix "Hyper-" to it only modifies it, and doesn't make it a new word; it simply means "beyond North," which is an accurate description of the mystical continent.

As a certified Finnic person, though a minority in Russia yet regularly welcomed to Hyperborea with open arms, the correct way to spell the adjective form of Hyperborea would be "Hyperboreal" rather than "Hyperborean." Calling us "Hyperboreals," though, would be rather erroneous; as such, I also propose the alternative demonym "Hyperborealite(s)."

Let me know what you think.

 

[baqqrih]

"Hyperborealite" is quite a mouthful.

 

[archimes]

"Hyperborealite" is quite a mouthful.

Sounds much better than "hyperboreals" though, whilst "hyperboreans" is grammatically odd.

 

[Gigafly]

Yeah it's actually called Hyperburrito or however the McRib is off the menu

 

[JC Denton]

Wakanda owns you little bros

 

[Steve]

Boreal wood

Boreal Wood

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[Twostripe]

She hypers on my borea till I alite

 

[Steve]

 

[archimes]

By the way, this is a screenshot from the main TV channel in Hyperborea, which I captured the last time I went there like 2 years ago. It's kinda hard to catch a flight there rn due to the whole military situation but I will return one day.

It features like two photos of average streets and roads there. Both were intentionally taken during the summer, meaning slightly less snow than typical, but the left one is from far northern Kitezh, capital of the Opona province of Hyperborea, famously located on the coast of the turbulent Lake Svetloyar; whilst the one on the right is relatively southernmore Mangazeya, surrounded by the notorious Zutibor forest, which has a bunch of Nenets people there.

 

[archimes]

Visiting Nav is on my bucket list since the entrance to Agartha is located there. Never been to Agartha before and I'd love to see what it's like there.

 

[Watt]

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[archimes]

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Those famous buildings are sadly in a preserved state nowadays. Modern Hyperboreal buildings are strongly inspired by those but those few in particular are now a museum park.

 

[Ytsuken]

I've always heard people use other forms of the word Hyperborean, such as "Hyperborean." I have reason to believe this may be an incorrect form %%though%%.

I have observed how the adjective of "Borea," meaning "North," is actually "Boreal." Adding the prefix "Hyper-" to it only modifies it, and doesn't make it a new word; it simply means "beyond North," which is an accurate description of the mystical continent.

As a certified Finnic person, though a minority in Russia yet regularly welcomed to Hyperborea with open arms, the correct way to spell the adjective form of Hyperborea would be "Hyperboreal" rather than "Hyperborean." Calling us "Hyperboreals," though, would be rather erroneous; as such, I also propose the alternative demonym "Hyperborealite(s)."

Let me know what you think.

Nice