After all the discussion here, I was really intrigued by this "RDNA".

Well, I googled RDNA, and found the website.

www.geocities.com/mikerdna/

Amazing stuff, they're into wicca and pagan students.

The best link was to the Druidic Karaoke homepage.  I especially liked "Minnesota Druids", sung to the tune of the Beach Boys' "California Girls".

Very informative, thanks for turning me on to this ... I'm not sure what it has to do with Poser.

Klebnor

errrm thats nothing to do with poser at all....
you picked out a completely wrong site

you want www.runtimeDNA.com - nicknamed RDNA for short..

Y'en a qui ont la comprenette difficile !

Are you saying that there are TWO RDNA's??

Actually three.

If you Google RDNA, the first listing is Runtime DNA (Poser stuff), the second is "Reformed Druids of North America" and the third is "Recombinant Deoxyribonucleic Acid."

True, but only one has Druidic Karaoke lyrics !

RuntimeDNA, the website, is at http://www.runtimedna.com

RDNA is an acronym for two other completely different things:

Recombinant DNA and The Reformed Druids of America.  However, when I search for RDNA in google, RuntimeDNA comes up.

And, missed it by a minute. 

*Reformed Druids?

yeah, they can pray to bushes as well...*

Waiting for the lockdown...

(Out of respect).

:)

Woolgathering here..

Rally for the National Defence of Alleyways

Righteous Newborns in Diapers for America

Rebellious Nannies of the Dour Aristocracy

But ... those are RNDA, not RDNA

I know. Just wanted to see if anyone was actually reading this nonsense. :)

yes  it is  read by some

Oh, I was just talking about my own contributions, not the thread in general.

Just sayin'.

Heh - I read everything. I don't understand all of it (rigging) but I read and read.

Robotic Drones Nurturing Animals
Reincarnated Doctors Not Accepted
Roll Dice North Always
Really Dumb Nonsense Acronyms ;-P

If there are Reformed Druids, are there Conservative and Orthodox ones as well?...;) Inquiring minds want to know...;)

Heck, if they only had all the old freebies still posted, I'd be a happy man...;)

I'm fairly certain the OP's tongue was firmly in their cheek. ;)

Quote - I know. Just wanted to see if anyone was actually reading this nonsense. :)

I wouldn't want to be seen reading this thread, and I didn't.

LIES! Lies and blasphem-

... Hm. I'm craving marshmallows.

Princess Vespa: "I am Princess Vespa, daughter of Roland, King of the Druids! "

Lonestar:  "Oh Great... That's all we needed... a Druish princess."

Barf: "Funny, she doesn't look Druish."

"You shot my hair... you shot my HAIR... YOU SHOT MY HAIR!!!"

Quote - Princess Vespa: "I am Princess Vespa, daughter of Roland, King of the Druids! "

Lonestar:  "Oh Great... That's all we needed... a Druish princess."

Barf: "Funny, she doesn't look Druish."

...you mean someone else actually saw that movie?
(Just went brain dead - can't recall the title...)

Quote -

...you mean someone else actually saw that movie?
(Just went brain dead - can't recall the title...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvmZ9SPcTzU ;)

Quote - If there are Reformed Druids, are there Conservative and Orthodox ones as well?...;) Inquiring minds want to know...;)

Not to be pedantic (well, maybe), but it's Reform Judaism, not "ReformED." "Reformed" is a subtradition of Christianity, one of the major branches of the Protestant Reformation alongside Lutheranism.

/pedantry

we druids don't about them! we can be Reformed if we want to ! sticks tongue out and goes to pray to a bush

A F.A.Q. about Reformed Druidism

My favorite part:

Q: Why do you call yourself "Reformed"?
A: Good question. Um...Because we also worship bushes?
 

Personally, I'm Drewish. ;)

Quote - My favorite part:

Q: Why do you call yourself "Reformed"?
A: Good question. Um...Because we also worship bushes?
 

Actually, it is only the Texas synod that worships bushes.

Quote -

...you mean someone else actually saw that movie?
(Just went brain dead - can't recall the title...)

Spaceballs.

(still have it sitting in my pile - both in DVD and a VHS tape of it boxed somewhere in my garage. Dunno whether to be impressed or embarrassed by that...)

just avoid 'Spaceballs the Series' at all costs.
trust me.
it's BAD.
with a capital TERRIBLE

Quote - we druids don't about them! we can be Reformed if we want to ! sticks tongue out and goes to pray to a bush

Druids have a pantheon of gods, they don't pray to bushes--though they may pray in the vicinity of bushes. ;-)

RDNA is an acronym for two other completely different things 

Well, it's not actually an acronym at all. Unless you can find a way to pronounce it as a word.

For examples: BASIC (the computer language) is an acronym, so is LASER.

Pedants rule!

Quote - > Quote - we druids don't about them! we can be Reformed if we want to ! sticks tongue out and goes to pray to a bush

Druids have a pantheon of gods, they don't pray to bushes--though they may pray in the vicinity of bushes. ;-)

People on their knees in the bushes???

Heavens!!

To Lundqvist:

People who put a V immediately after a Q probably shouldn't call pronunciations into question.

As a matter of fact, it is quite simple to pronounce RDNA as a word:

"Everything I know about acronyms, I rdna book."

Klebnor

Lundqvist is a valid name.

People like Klebnor who fail to perform even the most basic research should not attempt pedantry. ;-P

Validity has nothing to do with pronunciation.

Hoplaa may well be a valid name.  Gkcqpxzt is a valid name, please do pronounce it.

Klebnor

Validity has much to do with the discussion when you imply that the person has chosen his name and should therefore refrain from calling pronunciation into question. It may well be his real name, in which case suggesting what you did makes no sense whatsoever.

Haha. This is fun. Do you guys not use google or wiki?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Lundqvist

Lundqvist/Lundquist is a perfectly normal Swedish (and to a degree Danish) family name.

I'd like to know where Gkcqpxzt is a common name. Just because it exists in an internet "list of unpronouncable names" I would'nt give that much credit. Anyone can make a list like that and pretend it's real. With no source or other explanations presented, it's just that - a list of someone hammering his fist into the keyboard and pretending it's "real" names.

My oldest kid has a very common Danish name that is apparently very hard for English speaking people to pronounce - does that mean she should never ask how things are pronounced then?

I love pedantry, but have learned to avoid it. But since we're all here pedanting (I made that up)...

There is some debate as to whether an acronym actually has to become a pronouncable word, such as laser or radar or scuba, in order to be classified as an acronym. Some say FBI, for example, is not an acronym, but an initialism.

Feh - I don't think the issue is real. The Merriam-Webster dictionary says of acronym:

a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation (as FBI) formed from initial letters : initialism

Furthermore, there is the evidence of the incredibly clever Three Letter Acronym, or TLA, of which TLA is a TLA. TLA is pronounced tee el ay. Yet most do not dispute its acronymity.

Wikipedia does dispute it. and claims that TLA is stands for Three Letter Abbreviation, and is self referential, or if it stands for Three Letter Acronym, it is not self-referential. That, of course, is a load of crap, and to be expected from an untrusted source such as Wikipedia. Everybody knows that Mrs. is an abbreviation, and it is three letters, but it is not a TLA.

Now if it was TLI, I could get behind the idea that it is a Three Letter Initialism, but that's just bogus.

Of course, TLA can also be pronounced as a word.

I thought I knew it all, TLA read this thread.

Trekkiegrrrl:  Having spent years in your neck of the woods (back when you had to take a hovercraft to get from Copenhagen to Malmo) I recognize the derivation of Lindqvist and actually have no problem pronouncing it.  Some of the folks I know in Finland, however, will forever have to put up with my mispronunciations of their completely proper names.

I still think you should do a Bento Box with Lutefisk and Brunost!

Klebnor mit sicherheit

Fair enough,  Klebnor. It was only a mild observation. 

Lundqvist:

I enjoyed your observation very much!  It kept the ball rolling quite nicely.  As the OP who innocently settled on what turned out to be a provocative title for the thread, I accept full responsibility for the outcome.

I am still enthralled with Druid Karaoke.  What a mind bending melange of obscure lyrics set to sappy melodies.

Klebnor