Talk:Brännboll

message: Is brennball really a good title for the article? My search on google on "brennball site:.com" gives exclusively German sites, and some Wikipedia mirrors on this article. I think this should be moved to Brännboll. Any objections? -- Elisson | Talk 18:41, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No objections Actually I have objections. Could you please check with the naming convention first? I know some english people prefer to avoid umlauts (I prefer to avoid it in French names!) , so please check the naming convention first.  "Brannball" would perhaps be a more "international" name. --Fred-Chess 18:53, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Wikipedia naming convention on the matter mentions nothing of umlauts. There are several articles including å, ä and ö (Knäck, Malmö, Skellefteå, Anders Jonas Ångström, Filmjölk and so on) so I don't see any reason to not include the ä in brännboll. And as I've seen no international version of the name (both brannboll and brannball give very few hits on Google), I would prefer brännboll. -- Elisson | Talk 20:49, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Had one been available, an English name should have been used and would have avoided the issue of the diacritics which some people around here dislike. But as there seems to be no English name for the game, I agree that the Swedish name with diacritics should be used; any other form will basically be a neologism. Brennball may possibly be a German form. Uppland 21:16, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

text: Why is this article under the Swedish name? Sweden is a bigger country than Denmark and Norway, but smaller than Germany.--Batmacumba (talk) 13:28, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: This exact game is also being played in Denmark, under the name "rundbold" (meaning "round ball", wow), and as it appears, in Germany and probably other countries. If there's no english name of the game, what then? The article could just as well have been named "rundbold". Marc K 14:20, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it *exactly* the same game? There *is* a pitcher in rundbold, IIRC. --Palnatoke 11:19, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You're right, but the pitchers main objective is to receive the ball and yell "stop" (or something similar), just as the "burner". Normally people get the option to throw the ball up in the air themselves, if they prefer that. I don't know if that option is part of the "official" rules (I bet there are some sort of rundbold-klub in Denmark that can provide us with that information). However, you're right that the games differ in this respect, but since this difference is so small and people often throw the ball themselves, I don't think it is big enough to percieve the games as being different. Marc K 13:26, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

text: And players 'die' in rundbold when they would be 'bränd' in brännboll (assuming the article is correct) and innings continue until 3 player are dead (or 'out') not a fixed period of time. 83.72.136.244 20:52, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there no english name for this sport? 

message: I have never heard the use of this word, where I come from everyone says "kärringracket", so I will change that Drogo 22:54, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I could easily imagine people/children calling it a "pige-bat" ("girl bat"), wich would translate into "tjejbollträ", I guess. But now, this again shows the problem of giving the article a regional bias. If people would agree, that this article is explaining not only "brännboll" but also "rundbold" (ie. that the two games are the same), I suggest the article become anti-regionalized. I also suggest we use english translations for things like the "tjejbollträ"/"kärringracket"/"pige-bat" and explain the connotations. Luckily this part (about the flat bat) is virtually unimportant and nonessential to the article. Marc K 00:26, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tjejbollträ? 

message: German "Brennball" is different from all the other types of Brännboll mentioned here: You have a pitcher standing next to a ring with a radius of 50 centimeters (this is called "Brenner") on the ground. The pitcher must throw the ball in the Brenner. Everyone who is not standing on a base (there can be as much bases as one wants) is burned ("verbrannt", if it is translated word by word it means burned away). There is a time limit in Brennball or the sides swap after everyone of the Offensive has thrown the ball once. Yes, they throw it. They don't have bats. Usual you use volleyballs or soft balls. Players don't even have to throw the ball. They are allowed drop them at the home base (this can be smart but it doesn't have to). The bases around the field mark the field's end. When ball hits the ground first, it mustn't be outside the field (everyone who doesn't stand on a base dies instantly if the ball hits the group outside the field). Every burned opponent is a point for the defense. Every player getting around without being burned both is one point for the offense. A home-run is 3. In addition, there's another game in Germany called "Tiger-Brennball". I don't remember much of this. It is quite rare but normal Brennball is played very often at German schools. --90.128.97.1 19:29, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  "Brennball", as it's called in German, Spanish, and English according to this German website - http://www.brennball.de/english/index.htm, is described as a Swedish game popular in Germany.  The Swedish version of the site calls it Brännboll, as this article.  It seems to be the same game? Hakluyt bean (talk) 19:58, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences to German "Brennball" 

message: Never heard this name in Norway. However, there is a related equivalent dødball. Punkmorten (talk) 09:52, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I played slåball in Norwegian primary school the very year this comment was made! Ved havet ≈ (talk) 23:39, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norway? 

message: "Branboll is enjoyed by elementary schoolchildren in the American Upper Midwest (particularly Minnesota), due to the area's large Scandinavian influence." -- Having grown up in Minnesota, and attending K-12 here, neither I nor anyone I know well enough to ask has ever heard of Branboll.
20:27, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  In American Upper Midwest? 

message: I've done a light rewrite of this article, and given it a new image (it had an annoying spelling mistake). As the act of being burned is roughly equivalent to being out in baseball I've decided to call it "out" (catching out, outing plate, etc), and explained the name in the opening paragraph. This will hopefully confuse non-Scandinavians less when their Scandinavian friends decide to show them how awesome brännboll is by linking to this article. EditorInTheRye (talk) 22:21, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  English translations 

message: I'm no linguist, but shouldn't the pronunciation be [ˈbrɛnːbɔlː], rather than [ˈbrɛmːbɔlː]? Feels like although people may sometimes pronounce it the latter way colloquially, that the proper, articulated pronunciation should be the former. I have changed it in any case. Kimspindel (talk) 19:51, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation