What's your screenname mean?

[Desdichado]

well then, you should tell that to the welsh, specifically the peopple of the city Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch. ( I think it can also be pronouned Eliza Doolittle too)

Just because most sane folks don't know what the rules to Welsh pronunciation are, doesn't mean there aren't any. I've delved a little too deeply into the blasphemous non-Euclidean pronunciation before.

And dosen't this show arbitrary spelling and pronunciation? Don't see this as me getting on your case, because I don't like you, my point is that your just splitting hairs that shouldn't be, Eliza.

I'm not really splitting hairs, although the topic is beyond inane, so I shouldn't even be wasting braincells on it. But no, if you read the description of how to say it, it's actually spelled as closely as can be. You simply have to sound each letter separately, i.e., [th] doesn't sound like [th] it sounds like [t] and [h], and you just jam all those initial consonants together. I've actually gotten a lot better at saying unnatural (to English speakers, anyway) consonant clusters from studying a bit of German, Russian and Polish. Once you get the hang of it, it's not too tough.

 

[Ry]

My name's Ryan, and I'm from Canada.

I was going through a patriotic phase about ten years ago when I made that one up. Used to be the excruciating ryan_de_canada, got shortened after my first flight from spam.

 

[Wellstar]

sure Eliza

 

[Desdichado]

In fact, now that I think about it, the pronunciation of Cthulhu as something like Kt'hoolhoo, except all jammed into two short syllables, is pretty darn cool.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Wow. This thread is turning out rather nicely. Interesting stuff everybody. Thanks for playing. I especially like the source of Piratecat's name.

 

[s/LaSH]

OK, you see my avatar? That's a derivative symbol created by writing my initials (BDR) in the same place, then simplifying and elaborating a little. Eventually, I got to the point where I'd scribble it down really fast. And start making little 'ching ching' noises in my head, like I was slashing it Zorro-style onto some villain. So, logically, I started calling this my 'slash'. (Or 'chop', which I think is supposed to be some kind of personal mark/signature - just reinforcing the concept.)

And a while later I decided to put a slash into slash, and spent a long time agonising over the correct capitalisation of the new word. So now you have 's/LaSH', pronounced 'eslash', slurred so you can't tell whether I'm saying 'ess-lash' or 'eh-slash'.

It's a very violent name, now that I think about it...

 

[Napftor]

Napftor Elaziim is my favorite NPC of all time. He is a cleric of Lathander from way back in our 2e Forgotten Realms campaign. Perhaps not too inspired, but I enjoy it (especially when folks try to pronounce it ).

 

[javapadawan]

Same old "needed a screenname and didn't want a bunch of numbers." I was in computer school at the time, and was just learning Java. I figured I had a long way to go before I could call myself a jedi though, so padawan it was.

It has the added benefit of being somewhat unique as well... I have yet to find it already taken on any email/chat/messageboard.

 

[ragboy]

1988... BBS.... needed name and this popped into my head.

 

[Kage Tenjin]

The character that I've spent the longest time playing and reached the Highest level. He was a shadow mage, hence Ka'ge(two syllables), Japanese for shadow, and Tenjin(Heaven) as an assumed surname, Hence "Shadow Heaven" or Shadow of Heaven.