Poll: Would you use your online Alias in real life?
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One vote for yes. My parents were cruel.
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All the talk of mispronounced names makes me glad what I go by is Lithuanian, as everyone in the U.S. basically goes "FirstName, uh..." and I know they are calling me. Otherwise they've heard me say it and just try and copy with no idea as to spelling.
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When I first started working where I am now, there were 3 people in an office of 12 named Steve.
We're not quite to that percentage... but six out of the 60ish people we have are "David." Remembering who goes by "David" and who by "Dave" takes a bit of time.
Unrelatedly, unless I'm going insane, a childhood friend wound up changing the spelling of her last name, I assume because it was mispronounced if you went by what it looked like (and sticking a silent e on the end fixes that).
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You guys think you have problems. Try having a first name containing a sound that doesn't even exist in English.
Filed under: for the record it's pronounced like matchyey.. or mashey... or fuck it, I'll just go with Max
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"watch" has that sound.
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It's not the same sound, and Wikipedia's pronunciation of it is somewhat off. Compare:
The difference is, if you prolong the "tch" in "watch", you end up with ʃ, but if you prolong ć (ci) in "ćma", you end up with ɕ. Listen to pronunciation of those.
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In lojban, that sound is
tc
and its IPA pronunciation fits in ASCII.
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and its IPA pronunciation fits in ASCII.
So it's written differently, it's pronounced differently, and it's the same sound?
Man, lojban sure is fucked.
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The two sounds you linked are both the same.
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They're not. You can't pronounce ɕ without touching your palate.
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You can't touch my palate without my permission!
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I'm actually known by many people from High School and College by my handle/nickname. Even some work colleagues and developers in former workplaces can identify my code when some of the packages have some variant of my nickname in its namespace.
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Speaking of pronunciation, my friend Red pronounces "commute" like "commune", emphasis on the first syllable. Anyone have any idea what region that comes from?
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Speaking of pronunciation, my friend Red pronounces "commute" like "commune", emphasis on the first syllable. Anyone have any idea what region that comes from?
No, but when I read "commune," I thought of the verb, with emphasis on the second syllable. It took a minute to wrap my brain around what you said.
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oh, yeah. Commune as in hippy or Communism.
Heh... he pronounces commute like commune the noun, while I pronounce commute like commune the verb.
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my friend Red pronounces "commute" like "commune", emphasis on the first syllable. Anyone have any idea what region that comes from?
Communist countries? He/she is called Red after all - probably not a coincidence.
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I'm completely suprised you didn't pick computer as the comparison
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A three-syllable word to show emphasis on a two-syllable word? Madness!
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The only places I've ever registered under my own name are facebook and linkedin, not that I'm ever active on either of those.
I generally pick something utterly random as a username—I chose the shortest name I could get away with here, and "cat" was already taken. (Actually my 'real' name is still available, maybe I'll go squat on it...)
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i know that one because of 2001: a space oddesy!
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you don't get spellar flags for picking on my spelling... not from me.
thanks for the correction though. ;-)
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I wasn't really looking for a flag but it seemed appropriate after the necro-correction of @blakeyrat. Sometimes I'm easily amused.
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Jupiterian
There was an episode of the Namor cartoon in the 70s or 80s where they used the term Jupiterian.
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Terminator: Genisys?
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No, Space Oddity like:
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Oh, I thought we were doing spellar jokes.
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@created_just_to_disl said:
You should be able to find studies online discussing this in greater detail.
The canonical study:
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When I have kids I'm going to choose uncommon names.
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it's definitely Throatwobbler
...as performed every week by Spike Milligan for years and years and years. Spike got Minnie Bannister's unmistakable vocal tone by grabbing his larynx between thumb and forefinger and wobbling the hell out of it.