Pseudonym Etymology.
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[color=#8800ff]Hello all One of the little things i like to ponder is the etymology of community member pseudonyms, or, if you prefer, the backstory to how & why people came up with their choice of online nick-names. When i see them here in members' posts, some are instantly amusing, some are literary references, some are tech references, & some are very cryptic [almost like random alphanumericals, but i'm sure many are not at all but actually carefully chosen]. I thought it might make for some entertaining & informative reading if members might be willing to post some of their Pseudonym Etymology... BUT... i certainly realise that many of these are used expressly for anonymity & sometimes personal security, so i'd like to clarify that in no way am i trying to jeopardise those sacrosanct values. If some people might post their explanations, in a way entirely comfortable to them, it might be very interesting for others to comprehend & learn. I can't lead by example... my posts here are under my actual name... very boring![/color] :blink:
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Mine's a pun, of course. It's what I do. I spy. I investigate things. Back in 1996 almost 20 years to the day, when I was joining the Netscape Community, I tried to pick the puntastic username eyespy, but of course it was taken. I settled on ayespy, and I have been ayespy, everywhere, ever since.
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I'm used to solve problems using a bit of lateral thinking, so I thought to use Mc Gyver or Wolf as nickname, but they are abused and not unique.
So I decided to use The Solutor as a purposely misspelled version of The Solver.
Anyway I think that outside UK and US no one has ever realized that "Solutor" is not an English word :lol:
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Mine may seem cryptic, but isn't really :dry:
It's my initials TB
I'm British GB
Working in Belgium at the time of creation BeAnd, when spoken, it rhymes :cheer:
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hello steffie and hello cryptographers
My whimsical, imaginative musings entertain us better than the explanations.! It is in our nature to reflect on and preponderate account noms. To discuss the capricious possibilities of applied meaning, acronymy and translation from all the idiomotic languages for persons like Solutor, steffie, TbGbe and myself who like to make up words can be funteresting and limitless. Moreover it could be incorrect and lack sensitivity; then there go the fun out of it. Yes i like to predict if sparky will become boisterous chronic complainant or if Blies will tell the truth. ?. Me too.. My actual name is steffie too.! i relinquish; make that steffie2. or lori1. or keri1. or richie2. or barry. or i.B._ri! right now.In appreciation of the query i react with response appropriate.
i_ri
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I think it's self-explanatory.
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hello Miss Steffie and everyone
hello ugly, no not obvious. You have not been writing ugly things in your posts? :side: -
Well spoken i_ri !!
How could anyone wise & lovely enough to recently wend their way into the magical Linux multiverse possibly be ugly? It's just infeasible
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My name is Ryszard.
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I don't even remember when this was, but I chose DarkWiiPlayer as a secondary username for something irrelevant to make fun of the fact that everyone* had dark or black or something similar in their name, and mixing it with something absurd as the name of a nintendo console. People started knowing me by that name and it ended up sticking, so I just kept it and accepted my fate.
*by everyone I mostly mean kids under the age of 14 that just discovered what an internet is and probably watched too much naruto.
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It's nice that my thread is still catching occasional interest, & i still enjoy everyone's stories. Cool.
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Mine's nothing extraordinary or fantastic, but when I first signed up for YouTube like 7 years ago, I tried using my initials, DJP, as my username. It was already taken, and I didn't like the idea of having something like DJP2345 or some random set of numbers at the end of my username. I wanted something easy and unique. I just put zeros in between each letter and it came out as D0J0P. If you sound it out as O's instead of 0's, it sounds like Dojop, which I thought was kinda cool and funny. I picked that name for every website ever since, as it's never taken.
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The etymology of the word lamarca means 'the mark' in Italian. My nick is a tribute to a man who deserted the corrupted brazilian army, took several weapons with him and joined the revolutionary guerrilla. His end everyone knows. Forty-five years after his death, Carlos Lamarca remains a taboo in Brasil.
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My pseudonym is from Semitic languages. It's from Hebrew word, that means "fiery" (but I'm not fiery, I'm very calm person). I heared word "Seraph" (maybe in my real life) and I like it from past to future. I don't know why I chose this nickname, but for me it's perfect :).
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Hey this is great, lots of interesting & amusing explanations -- thanks all. I confess to some puzzlement though; my thread was relatively "stale" & rather inactive, but lately it's had a veritable explosion of activity. What happened? Is it perchance related to the new forum, which has somehow made older stuff easier to find... or... [maybe instead caused by combo of sunspots + Higgs Boson collisions + orbital position of Neptune's 2nd moon aligning with the wind blowing from NNE at 42 kph on a Tuesday]?
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I originally had to set up a game account and for some reason settled on Duckz_Cant_Fly kus back then i thought it was funny, in game though people always just called me Duckz. So I shorten it when I get an account these days so other people can't take it first and its easer for em to use and remember, the pic is of cats and i just find him amusing and iconic. Also if people recognize the pic i know there chill
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@Quinca71 Man, lol... If you need to use google translate to communicate, you should try and write as simple as possible in your native language. The software has improved significantly over the past year, but you should still handle it with care, it gives your readers headaches if abused like this.
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@Quinca71
From the days of the overflowing beginning, the remnants of a long past, the seizing of the longing. So also my name describes, the saviors of the necessary majority. You shall not say him in one voice, though you sing, my muse, nor can I draw your beauty with my forehead.But forgive me, you Knight of the West, it's already late, and I have to keep my sheep.
Hugs, luetage
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My nickname is meant to be a funny hint at my body height - I am close to 2m tall (6,46 ft). So I took the japanese word bonzai (those micro trees) and switched the syllables to make it less obvious. ^^
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@zaibon -- Now that's brilliant, i love it.