Poll: Would you use your online Alias in real life?
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I'm guessing wah-nah but suspecting it might not be that.
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When I have kids I'm going to choose uncommon names.
I'm going for uncommon but easy to spell.
It's bad enough having a surname that I think is quite simple to spell but that I (and everyone else in my family) spends their life having to spell to the point it becomes habit to spell it after saying it, so they're at least getting a first name that's easy to spell.
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I named my daughter Maeve.
May-ve?
Filed under: Fuck off stupid toaster about replying to many at once
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Try to pronounce it on the first try. You did it wrong.
Yo-anna or something similar--not sure about the first vowel.
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It's bad enough having a surname that I think is quite simple to spell but that I (and everyone else in my family) spends their life having to spell to the point it becomes habit to spell it after saying it
Same here. As stated earlier, my handle here is my last name. Upon hearing it, people want to spell it with an "E" at the end. Or upon seeing it written down, they want to pronounce it "Moat"/"Mote".
I know it's not a common last name, but it should be freaking simple to spell and pronounce! Hasn't anyone heard of the applesauce company?
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Yeah, that wasn't the clearest way of getting it across was it? I meant it to be pronounced like Dave.
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How about 'Rodney'?
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Yo-anna or something similar--not sure about the first vowel.
You're actually not too far off. Most people would pronounce the I and O separately, like the Jupiterian moon.
The best explanation I heard was, "you say it like (the English) 'iguana' but with no G sound at all." It also helps when you know it's based on the same root as the English name Joanna. It also helps that Ioana was fucking hot, and fuck me... all the regrets... regretssss
Here's a recording: http://www.forvo.com/search/ioana/ro/
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Is it a greek name? If so, I'd go with EE-wahn-ah.
I have a nephew with a similar middle name: Ioanis.
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I know it's not a common last name, but it should be freaking simple to spell and pronounce! Hasn't anyone heard of the applesauce company?
facepalm I always thought it was pronounced that way, but I thought of "motte and bailey castle".
ugh--I had to go look up the pronunciation, because it would've been ironic if THAT word were pronounced "moat."
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Upon hearing it, people want to spell it with an "E" at the end. Or upon seeing it written down, they want to pronounce it "Moat"/"Mote".
But how do they pronounce the '555'?! ;)
People can pronounce mine fine, the problem is that it sounds like barrel and is spelt almost the same (except for the first letter, and it has 2 x l at the end) so gets spelt like barrel (which is sort of understandable) or barell / barel.
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facepalm I always thought it was pronounced that way, but I thought of "motte and bailey castle".
ugh--I had to go look up the pronunciation, because it would've been ironic if THAT word were pronounced "moat."
I think my family spelled it with an "E" like a thousand years ago or something, and as far as I know it was originally picked up by a family that lived near a castle.
It's pronounced just like it looks. For some reason everyone thinks too hard about it.
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Fine by me - @FrostCat might have a different opinion though.
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I would say that's worth a whoosh but unless you're familiar with a UK sitcom that hasn't been on for a number of years...
Also, just FWIW... my actual name doesn't get mispronounced, but everyone mispronounces Arantor the first time.
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Heaven forfend the poker players find out you play WoW.
not quite,
when I play games online, be it CS or DOTA or LoL or whatever, I am always happy to troll people a bit or respond in kind if they are being dicks. If I ever get geek-famous (that state where geeky people know who you are, but most other people do, take for example Fatal1ty, Patrick Chapin, Reynad, Day9 or geeky-famous celebrity from your own preferred geeky activity) for playing card games, I want to make sure that it's hard (preferably not possible) for people to link the 2, and decide I am a dick. I don't want to have to be a dick to keep my geek stardom, I want to be a god to these people. Then they will be more likely to have sex with me.
It's a long and well thought out plan, I just have to actually be good at something at some point, which as yet has eluded me.
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But how do they pronounce the '555'?!
Oddly enough, "smith-smythe-smith."
People can pronounce mine fine, the problem is that it sounds like barrel and is spelt almost the same (except for the first letter, and it has 2 x l at the end) so gets spelt like barrel (which is sort of understandable) or barell / barel.
"Hi, I'm Larry. this is my brother Darrel and this is my other brother, Barrel."
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everyone mispronounces Arantor the first time.
I did, as was discovered in a previous thread somewhere else
Filed under: Why the Bel***m is the icon for clockwise arrows in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT style to the anti-clockwise?!
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I was thinking Raymond Luxury Yacht, at least for how it's spelled.
That implies a unique pronunciation. What have you come up with?
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Why the Bel***m is the icon for clockwise arrows in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT style to the anti-clockwise?!
Because Discourse.
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That implies a unique pronunciation. What have you come up with?
Throatwobbler Mangrove, of course.
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Hmm, just noticed some debate in the video comments, it's probable he was saying "Throat-Warbler" and not "Throatwobbler" and the accent is confusing to us Americans.
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No, it's definitely Throatwobbler. I do have a complete copy of the TV series scripts upstairs, but I CBA to go look it up right now.
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It's not confusing to us English - it's definitely Throatwobbler.
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As usual, YouTube comments are wrong again!
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I think my family spelled it with an "E" like a thousand years ago or something, and as far as I know it was originally picked up by a family that lived near a castle.
It sounds like you're [spoiler]a troll[/spoiler].
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That would be living under/near a bridge, not a castle.
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Well how do you get into the castle then?
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Well how do you get into the castle then?
Well, if we were to construct a giant wooden badger....
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Hmm, just noticed some debate in the video comments, it's probable he was saying "Throat-Warbler" and not "Throatwobbler" and the accent is confusing to us Americans.
Oddly enough that's what I always thought he was saying.
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Well how do you get into the castle then?
Apparently by running real fast and then jumping.
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One leg at a time, like everybody else.
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One leg at a time, like everybody else.
Sir I must protest. Such common sense is frowned upon here.
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It also helps that Ioana was fucking hot, and fuck me... all the regrets... regretssss
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Or if you're a king you just take two steps to the side.
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Or if you're a king you just take two steps to the side.
No, no, kings can move backwards. Or one step in any direction if this is chess and not draughts.
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Ok, but how do you castle in Go?
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Yes. I don't mind people working out who I am if they care to. (I've used this since before I had a computer that could be logged into at all…)
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No, it's definitely Throatwobbler. I do have a complete copy of the TV series scripts upstairs, but I CBA to go look it up right now.
Additional datapoint: I have the DVD box set, and it just so happens I once captured the frame above with the closed captioning on.
It's Throatwobbler.
As for the pronunciation of "Mott", tell people to watch the Warner Brothers cartoon "Rocket-bye Baby", where the Martian baby's name is "Mot" (the Earth baby in the same toon is called "Yob".)
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As for the pronunciation of "Mott", tell people to watch the Warner Brothers cartoon "Rocket-bye Baby", where the Martian baby's name is "Mot" (the Earth baby in the same toon is called "Yob".)
There's also this guy, whom Captain Picard once pretended to be in whatever episode where he got trapped aboard the Enterprise while it was being scrubbed by some green radiation beam thingy.
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It's bad enough having a surname that I think is quite simple to spell but that I (and everyone else in my family) spends their life having to spell to the point it becomes habit to spell it after saying it, so they're at least getting a first name that's easy to spell.
I know how you feel. Worse yet, people constantly manage to somehow mispronounce it, giving the first vowel a long sound (despite there not being any letters either side that would indicate it should be the long sound).
Edit: to demonstrate, it would be like pronouncing "seven" as "sea-ven" (but with 2 consonants between the two e's)
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Since my username is simply my initials, and IRL I answer to PJ, I already do.
When I first started working where I am now, there were 3 people in an office of 12 named Steve.
There are now 4 Pauls in our office... one is a peer, one is my line manager's manager. It gets confusing at times...
