I read your name and think of an Anime character. A small girl very cute, very dangerous. (Anime formula: The cuter they are, the more you'd better watch out!)
I have been called "Slaine" for so long, it really is a name I respond to....
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My response is pretty similar to Icarus's. I've been called Moose for a long time, even IRL (nod to Shinda-ers).
And due to Hatrack for the past couple years, I read "Pop" as being me, too, which throws me every time someone mentions pop culture or pop psychology, or even refers to popatr as Pop. It bugs, almost as much as seeing "bug" used as an intransitive verb does.
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Actually, Hatrack has added "Kat" to the list of nicknames from Katharine that I will answer to and think of myself as.
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It doesn't happen to me, but I don't know that it means anything. I've been using this particular screen name, in one form or another, in all my primary email addresses and logon names - I vary my passwords though. In my case, it means I've been seeing "sndrake" for almost 11 years. As you might have gathered, it consists of my first and middle initials, combined with my last name.
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I've often been called aka or ak in real life, so I think of those as being my name as much as I do Anne Kate, really. When people occasionally call me Anne, that does NOT sound like me. I don't like that at all, for some reason.
Most jatraqueros I think of mainly by their posting names. Aim names don't seem to matter much at all. I think of all of my online friends either by their real life names or by their hatrack posting names. What's funny is that some people's real life names just feel like pseudonyms to me. Like "Clark Kent" type monikors. The true identity feels more like it's associated with the posting name. <laughs>
For me Pod is one of those, and Jaiden, Tresopax, Human, also Slash and Ralphie. I know who people mean when they say Ted, Carolyn, Jon, Jon, Ty, and Toni, but those are not really their names, to me.
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Tom called me cicilia and i almost corrected him. not with my name, but with celia. i'm kind of suprised that i even responded to it.
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I've used the name Strider for so long before i even started posting at Hatrack that i was already pretty associated with that name in my mind.
Hatrack has just fueled that fire even more.
hmmm...which reminds me...Strider.
I know that I associate other regulars with their posting name, even if I know them in real life. I have some numbers in my phone by posting names, not real names.
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I have to admit that I'm used to being called Fox, lol it seems normal to have some people call me Foxy. Of course you know being in the army I'm almost completely disconnected from my first name, Paul, as everyone and anyone calls me Jay. Its just the name I'm used to being called now. nothing crazy in reading your online name as your name.
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celia, I've never seen anyone use your real name in a post, so I've never done it. I thought maybe you didn't want it to be common knowledge or something.
I don't really think of myself as my username because it really doesn't sound much like a name or even a nickname. Some people use "z" or "gator" in their posts which actually sounds more like a name. zgator just doesn't roll of the tongue. Maybe if I said it to myself more.
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edit: zan, yeah. if you post my name, i probably won't respond because i'll think you mean someone else. david's done it a few times and it just looks funny to me.
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Now this brings up a different point. At get-togethers, I always try to use the real name. I don't know why, that just seems right to me. And I feel a little privileged to know the real first names of Hatrackers . . . like I'm part of the "in group." Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
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Although I called Leonide by her real name in the Parachat room once and it seemed to creep her out. Of course, she didn't know I was me, but I still wondered if that was something she didn't want being general knowledge.
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I've been "Macca" online since around 1995 or 96, to the point where it nearly creeps me out here when someone shortens it to "Mac". (I can't tell if they mean me or MacKillian...)
I didn't used to give out my real name online at all, but some people know it now. Many say that my nick suits me better.
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The first time someone called me by my “real” name in a post I thought “Cool, now I’m one of those multiple-identity people who always confused me when I first started posting.” Posts: 9866 | Registered: Apr 2002
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The first time I called you by your real name in a post, I went back and edited it out in case you didn't want it known. I would've left it there had I known it would be a good thing in your eyes.
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I read Vána as Vána. In fact, I have found that I now read most v-words as Vána, at first, because there are so few of them.
I also answer to Vána if I'm addressed that way. I know it's me. I even think of myself that way, sometimes. And there have been a couple of times when I've nearly called my husband Lime!
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on topic: I don't read my real name into my handle but I do have to look twice when I read the word "dragon" if it's capitalized.
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Ryukochan, when I see your name I never think Abby. Or Susie or Jane ( ). I always add the "-chan" in my head, and I actually always hear a cute Japanese girl's voice saying it in a very enthusiastic way. That plus your use of alternative smilies has a tendency to make me think of a big-eyed anime girl when I read your posts.
I am actually so used to people calling me "Saxon" in real life that it was actually a tiny bit weird to have friends calling me "Mike" at the various get-togethers. Usually only family and work people call me that. Well, and I guess friends from before college. Still, seeing "Saxon" around here just seems like my name, which is why it confuses me so much when people refer to Storm that way.
"sax," "saxy," "saxerton," and "Mr. 75" are still a little different, although I'm getting used to some of them.
Other names I automatically respond to offline: Mike, Michael, Sak, John (see, Moose? you're not too far off), Three-Quarters Japanese Michael Sakasegawa, Shantytown, Jap75, sakSOWN, (the) Sak-Man, General Huge, Hey Retard.
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Icarus, i don't think Leonide minds at all. it probably just threw her for a loop.
When dealing with get-togethers it's weird. I definitely call the people by their real names to their faces. But a lot of times i'll slip up while referring to them while talking with someone else.
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Interestingly, despite the fact that it doesn't sound quite normal to be called by my real name, I get a giant kick out of calling people by their real names. Except most people named Mike/Michael. For some reason I only know one guy with that name (who I usually call Mikey) where I don't feel weird saying that name out loud.
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I actually read my name as TheTick. Which usually prompts the theme song to run through my head. Then, I have to post some sort of Tick quote randomly on a thread.
"You don't eat crackers in the bed of your future, you get all scratchy!"
Then I get better.
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I spell my name out, so it's K-W-S-N-I, but in my head I say it kinda fast. When I got to wenchcon and said it like that, everyone just looked at me. It took a little bit for what I'd said to sink in. Everyone else pronounced it kwizni (or quizni, as Pop does ) so I introduced myself that way to CT, and it seemed to work.
I pronounce Snuffles Snuffles, but he doesn't get out much, so he doesn't count.
Some people's real names and hatrack names I use interchangeably, like Belle, Olivet and Rackeesh(Actually, I tend to use Jeff more cause I can spell it.) For I have a hard time NOT calling CT CT, and calling Jenny Gardener Andrea. I almost exclusively call Raventh Mark, and I almost never call T_Smith Nathan. There are too many Johns and Jons around for me to keep them all straight, so I go by screennames, mostly.
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Actually, I read my name backwards, which tends to make me wonder if I am dyslexic, or failing miserably at being original.
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I can't even pronounce either of my handles, which is rather sad. When I read MyrddinFyre, I think of fire instead of actually pronouncing anything.
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That's so awesome. I've always wondered how you pronounced MyrddinFyre. I always hear that with a sort of part-Welsh pronunciation: The first "y" is halfway between the "i" in "mitten" and a long "e" sound, as in "agree", the "dd" is like the "th" in "then" and the "Fyre" sounds just like "fire".
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Saxon: ^_^ Thanks for that. I hope to someday meet you in real life, as you are likely the only person who will be able to pronounce my s/n correctly. ^_^ Yay saxon-san!
quote: I read your name and think of an Anime character. A small girl very cute, very dangerous. (Anime formula: The cuter they are, the more you'd better watch out!)
Small: NO!! (5'9") Cute: (shrug) Dangerous: Now, there, you've hit it on the head. Danger is my middle name. Actually it's Leslie...
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The exception to when I think of you as a big-eyed anime girl is when you use a smiley like that. Then you are a happy-pointy-eyed anime girl with a gigantic open mouth.
And sometimes you are additionally jumping in the air clasping your hands together with your knees pushed together and your feet sticking out to either side. Often making some sort of happy exclamation, such as "Yata!"
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One more thing: I do hate to disappoint you but my pronunciation, while better than most, isn't perfect. I've never been able to fully master the leading "r" sound (it's not an "L," it's not an "R," what is it?). Most likely a consequence of having spent my formative years surrounded by hakujin. Posts: 4534 | Registered: Jan 2003
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