Hatrack River Forum: Okay let us get this straight! :mad:

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Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

Okay it has come to my attention that absolute evil has been unleashed into Hatrack and I must clear something up right now ebfore the virus spreads.

Blayne, being my real name does not equal under any circumstances "Blaine" notice the difference of spelling. "Blaine" is spelt with an "i" which as we all know is a perversion to how my name, the real Blayne is spelt.

Announcement is over go about your lives fellow citizens of a virtual setting.

And Not-Me welcome to Hatrack [Wave]

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

Sheesh. This from someone who routinely has five spelling errors per sentence, when he even bothers using full stops? You have absolutely no room for complaint.

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

Are you sure you two aren't married? You're always bickering [Razz]

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

You've got to admit, though, Blayne spelled with the "y" is cooler than Blaine spelled with the "i".

And Blayne's misspellings are all part of his quirky charm.

That said, I'd hate to see it become all the rage here, as everyone strives to become a Blayne-wannabe.

Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :

Welcome to the internet Bla(y|i)ne.

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

The prince in Zelazny's "Princes of Amber" spelled his name "Blaine". Therefore the 'i' is the correct spelling. [Smile]

Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :

FEATURE ONE: BLAYNE'S HIT CHORUS

I'm Blayne Bradley, yes I'm the real Bradley
All you other Blayne Bradleys are just imitating
So won't the real Blayne Bradley please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?

FEATURE TWO: INTERESTING NEW WAYS TO BUTCHER "BLAYNE"

Blayen
Blãn
Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadriayyyne
MAJOR BLAYNE
Blæn

Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :

I'll sympathize with you. People always replace the "a" in my name with an "e". Its odd how they can't get it right, when the correct spelling is right in front of their faces, isn't it?

By the time you are out of school, you will be so used to the mis-spellings that it will just go over your head. I only worry about correcting people I like.

Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

hehe [Smile]

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

Just keep going. It took a lot of fussing, but people generally spell katharina right.

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

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Just keep going. It tooks a lot of fussing, but people generally spell katharina right.

Well, at least your verbs are all there. [Wink]

Posted by Jeesh (Member # 9163) on :

Eveyone spells my name without the 'e' at the end. I spell it 'Anne'

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

People try to stick extra Es and sometimes even an H into my name. But it's Megan. A million Ns, get it? Mega N.

Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :

Blaine is a pain.

Choo-choo.

Posted by Jeesh (Member # 9163) on :

Megan
Meaghan

I've seen it spelt both ways.

Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :

I know how you feel.
People who see my name pronounce it wrong.
People who hear my name spell it wrong.

But it's really just pronounced the way it looks, people! Follows all the standard American English rules and everything. Why is this so hard?

When I got married, the officiator said "Gina", even though I had already told him three times before the wedding that it was "Jenna". I was too shy to correct him in the middle of the vows. [Blushing]

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

Check with your state's legal code -- you may actually be living in sin!

Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :

It's ok, I can't count the number of times people have spelled my screen name "ersomniac" or "erosomaniac" or "ersomaniac" or otherwise.

Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :

I changed my last name from Aaronson to Liel when I moved back to Israel in 1997. I'd had Aaronson misspelled all the time in the US (one high school guidance counselor even tried Erinsohn, which I gather would be half Irish, half German), but they would argue with me about it in Israel.

See, Moses's brother's name was Aharon in Hebrew. That's why there are two A's in the name. But I spell it in Hebrew just the way it sounds (within the bounds of available vowels in Hebrew): AH-rone-sone. Israelis would spell it AH-HA-rone-sone, and argue with me that they were right and I was wrong. I tried to explain to them that my English name wasn't A-ha-ronson, and that a translation would be Ben Aharon anyway, but they didn't care.

So I just changed it. It made my life much simpler back in Israel. And now that I'm in Chicago, almost no one can handle it. <sigh> I get people pronouncing it as Lyle, or Leel. I've tried telling them to pronounce it like it's Kryptonian: Li-El, but that just gets weird looks and "too geeky" eye rolling.

And here on Hatrack, I cannot get people to stop calling me StarLisa. Or Star, which is really silly.

Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :

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The prince in Zelazny's "Princes of Amber" spelled his name "Blaine". Therefore the 'i' is the correct spelling.

Incorrect. I wonder why people say stuff like that? Which prince were you talking about? Bleys?

Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :

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And here on Hatrack, I cannot get people to stop calling me StarLisa. Or Star, which is really silly.

What would you prefer?

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

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Originally posted by Blayne Bradley:
"Blaine" is spelt with an "i" which as we all know is a perversion to how my name, the real Blayne is spelt.

:::Chokes on the bittersweet irony:::

:::takes out large pencil, falls on it:::

Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :

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Originally posted by erosomniac:

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And here on Hatrack, I cannot get people to stop calling me StarLisa. Or Star, which is really silly.
What would you prefer?

Lisa. The problem is, it's such a common name, that it's always gone when I sign up for things. And I feel weird using my full name. So I started using "starLisa", because my domain name is starways.net. And then it took on a life of its own. <grin>

Posted by Jeesh (Member # 9163) on :

My last name is always mispelt or mispronounced. One time, we were called the Plumbers. [Mad]

Or instead of an 'r' sound at the end, they'd say 'er' Or the 'u' would be pronunced wrong. My name isn't that hard!