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Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Amaranthine on July 24, 2008, 06:46:56 PM
Kind of a weird topic, but I do wonder how members pronounce their own usernames. For example for my username it's pretty simple to pronounce if you are slightly fluent with the english language. If you speak like an american you may say "Rat" with a short "a" sound, rather then if you are British and say it with a long "a". The "lady" part is sort of like that too. The american way of sounding out lady is more "rushed" than the how a british person may pronounce it.

I remember mispronouncing DH's username like "DarkHoromon" when it was supposed to be "Darkhouomon". :p

I hate it when I mispronounce words, so I'm just wondering how do you pronounce your own usernames?

Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on July 24, 2008, 06:59:03 PM
If you don't know how to pronounce my username, you shouldn't even be on this forum. :p I do have a few other usernames though including lbtlover and tlordame.  I don't think tlordame even has a pronunciation.  It's just a randomized combination of the letters in my last and middle names.   I just thought of landbeforetimelover out of the blue.  I really thought it would have been taken, but I guess I was wrong.  I don't know why someone wouldn't want my username except for the fact that it's so long.  It's not a real issue for me though because I type at about 96 words per minute.
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: DarkHououmon on July 24, 2008, 07:10:41 PM
DarkHououmon is pronounced like this: Dark-how-ow-mon.
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: The Chronicler on July 24, 2008, 07:34:51 PM
When I first heard of the word 'chronicler' a few years ago, I mispronounced it as 'chron-i-cler', when in fact the real pronunciation is 'cron-i-cler'. Also, another pronunciation it isn't is 'cron-i-cle-er'.
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: pokeplayer984 on July 24, 2008, 08:56:58 PM
If you know how to pronounce the ever popular game, Pokemon, then you know how to pronounce my username, as it is derived from that and pronounced in the same fashion, just alternated.

If you're still having trouble, try this:

Just say, "poke a player" as if it was one word, and there ya go.

Oh, and the numbers are by themselves, not together.  So it's 9-8-4.  Not 984. :P:

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I type at about 96 words per minute

:o Not only do you put my computer skills to shame, you put my typing skills to shame.  I can only do about 1/4 of that. -_-
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: f-22 "raptor" ace on July 24, 2008, 09:01:27 PM
Mine's pronounced how it looks
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Cancerian Tiger on July 24, 2008, 11:45:54 PM
Mine outta be simple: Kan-ser-ianne tie-grr ;).
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Serris on July 25, 2008, 12:16:09 AM
Mine is pronounced:

Ser-is
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Nimrod on July 25, 2008, 07:52:08 AM
Nimrod, just like you spell it. the i like an i. Nimrod.
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Clawandfang on July 25, 2008, 11:25:36 AM
My I would pronounce as three separate words but perhaps with a smaller gap between words than I would usually put in.
Claw and fang.
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: kjeldo on July 25, 2008, 04:15:26 PM
pronounce my name is as easy as going to the toilet, although this is without all the stinky things, -_-
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: The Chronicler on July 25, 2008, 05:52:09 PM
Sorry, but I'm not Dutch, so I'm actually not sure how your name is pronounced. :(
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: DarkHououmon on July 25, 2008, 05:58:39 PM
Quote from: kjeldo,Jul 25 2008 on  04:15 PM
pronounce my name is as easy as going to the toilet, although this is without all the stinky things, -_-
It is easy? It doesn't look easy to me.
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: action9000 on July 25, 2008, 06:33:29 PM
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pronounce my name is as easy as going to the toilet, although this is without all the stinky things,
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It is easy? It doesn't look easy to me.
I agree.  To me kjeldo, your's is the hardest name in this topic for me to pronounce so far. :P:  If ya want to clear it up for us, that would be awesome. :p :wow

The toilet images weren't exactly necessary either. <_<
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Serris on July 25, 2008, 07:30:30 PM
Quote from: kjeldo,Jul 25 2008 on  04:15 PM
pronounce my name is as easy as going to the toilet,
When I saw this I had to think: "How hard is it for you to go to the toilet?"

I feel that your name is actually one of the hardest to pronounce names here.

Is is K-jeldo or K-heldo?
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Malte279 on July 27, 2008, 01:59:12 PM
This certainly depends on the native tongues of the speakers. To me kjeldo would appear relatively easy to pronounce. My name prooves rather tricky for native English speakers, but Kacie did a very good job on an MSN microphone chat a while ago. The a in Malte is pronounced similar to the u in the word "cut" while the e is pronounced similar to the a in mountain.
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Amaranthine on July 27, 2008, 05:25:22 PM
Quote from: Malte279,Jul 27 2008 on  10:59 AM
The a in Malte is pronounced similar to the u in the word "cut" while the e is pronounced similar to the a in mountain.
 :slap

See that's what I'm talking about. I completely mispronouced your name Malte! I even tried to pronounce it the way I am supposed to...it's not working...it just sounds odd to me...:p
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: The Chronicler on July 27, 2008, 08:39:31 PM
Okay, so now I know how to properly pronounce Malte's name. Now, could somebody please tell me how kjeldo is pronounced properly?
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Malte279 on July 28, 2008, 06:31:08 AM
I suppose microphne chats are the only certain way to bring a correct proounciation accross. Even with that description it would be a surprise if the name was pronounced quite correctly. If one pronounces English the wa one pronounces German the result is an entirely new language.
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: kjeldo on July 28, 2008, 09:09:34 AM
@serris it is just k-jeldo right?
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Petrie. on July 28, 2008, 03:26:45 PM
Um...take three guesses, and the first two I won't count. :p
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: buffypii on July 29, 2008, 10:38:50 PM
Well..I pronounce my username as Baffie pee..
But it's written as Buffypii..
The reason for that is that Buffy is my doggie's name..And the pii part is just another way of saying girl in Norwegian..hehe
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on July 29, 2008, 11:40:26 PM
Mine's a really tough one. I'll try to type it slow.

"Let-Us-Bay-Kun-And-Toe-May-Toe"

I'm sure that cleared up a whole lot of pronunciation difficulties out there.
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Petrie. on July 30, 2008, 06:11:41 AM
What if you say toh-mah-toe? :p :p :p
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: jedi472 on July 30, 2008, 10:54:31 AM
Try this:

Jed-aye-for-seven-too

Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on July 30, 2008, 12:18:58 PM
Quote from: Petrie,Jul 30 2008 on  05:11 AM
What if you say toh-mah-toe? :p :p :p
You got me there.  :slap
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: action9000 on August 01, 2008, 06:17:13 PM
I've got another easy one. :p
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: stars on August 01, 2008, 06:29:04 PM
my name should be easy its pronounced St-ar-s or star-s.
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Mornai on August 04, 2008, 12:11:15 AM
Mine's simple too. It's pronounced as More-and say "I" as you would 1 word, err, letter? but with the letter "N" in front of it. ;)
Title: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Mumbling on August 07, 2008, 03:39:05 AM
heehee kjeldo's name hard? :p lol I guess so

Mine is easy, just mum-bling .. english, nothing dutch in it :p
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Littlefoot505 on August 08, 2018, 12:42:12 AM
Mine should be fairly straightforward, given that most of it is just the name of the main protagonist in LBT. As for the numerical portion, that's pronounced "five-oh-five"

My full username pronunciation is like this:
"Little-foot-five-oh-five"
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Sneak on August 08, 2018, 03:01:14 AM
simply Oz-band
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Post by: Ducky123 on August 26, 2018, 11:15:05 AM
<--- obvious :P
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Post by: Nick22 on August 26, 2018, 01:09:57 PM
Mines Easy
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Post by: RubberDucky on August 26, 2018, 01:53:19 PM
Mine's very easy; it's just pronounced rubber-ducky. :p
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Flathead770 on August 26, 2018, 11:26:23 PM
Like everyone else, I have an easy pronunciation for my username. For the number I usually say 'seven-seventy' and skip the whole 'hundred and' part :p
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on August 27, 2018, 12:57:35 AM
Not like this. (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hxNAHPnWwcw) (And yeah, I’ve often wondered why this video exists, and why someone cared enough to make it.) It’s just pronounced like the mathematical instrument (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HlRqj80skO4).
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: rhombus on September 30, 2018, 09:15:35 PM
Mine's easy as well.  Rhom-bus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLXptgOwKC4)
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: jassy on September 30, 2018, 11:37:09 PM
mine is pretty easy, just jas-see :DD
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: LeventeII on April 26, 2019, 10:11:05 PM
I think my name might be difficult for some people, so here is the pronunciation.

Level
end
tetris
end

I think an important thing in pronouncing my username is that the two "e"s are pronounced equally.
My "II" actually means "the second", but nobody called me like that yet. The "II" has to do with the creation of my username. Most people pronounce it "I-I" like in 'Internet'. I think that's okay, since I call it "I-I" myself.  :DD It would be very strange if someone would call me "Levente the second" by now.
The mistake that most people make with my username is that they are mistaking the "II" for "ll". The problem is, that some fonts make the big 'i' look the same as the small 'L'.

In the following example, I'm using the font "arial":

Internet
leaf


One can't recognize any difference, but it is there.
Well, that's how most people pronounce my username. However, I'm open for other variations. Maybe there is a better one out there  :p
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Anagnos on June 21, 2019, 11:28:05 AM
Mine isn't really that hard to pronounce. A-nag-nos.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: ImpracticalDino on June 21, 2019, 09:01:28 PM

Mine isn't really that hard to pronounce. A-nag-nos.

I've always thought of it as Ana-g-nos. :oops

My username is pretty self-explanatory to pronounce. Im-prac-ti-cal Di-no.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: Anagnos on June 22, 2019, 04:22:15 AM
To be honest, few people have had trouble with how to pronounce my name. Now they have even made a silly but friendly joke about it. A-nanas, which also means pineapple in Finnish. :p
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Post by: Paradise Bird on June 25, 2019, 09:45:00 AM
Pa-ra-dice-birb

XD
Title: Re: How do you pronounce your usernames?
Post by: ImpracticalDino on June 25, 2019, 10:55:21 PM
I will never understand why people say "birb" on the internet. Most memes are stupid in my opinion, but there are some I find quite fun, such as Rick Roll pranking for instance. :)

No offense, of course.