What is behind your username?
- brilliantyears
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Re: What is behind your username?
Mine is the title of a song by my favourite band. I picked it because it sounds optimistic, even though the actual lyrics are quite melancholic
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Re: What is behind your username?
My real name. But it's not as obvious as it might seem. I created this username for a Russian-speaking forum, originally it was written in Cyrillic and looked like this: "А.Алекс". The first "A" is the first letter of my name and "Алекс" a combination of other letters of my full name.
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Re: What is behind your username?
Carmody wrote:MorkTheFiddle
Wow, that is quite a bit of context for the name!
Now how about the picture?
In 1054 Chinese astronomers recorded seeing a new star, actually now considered to have been a supernovs, in what we designate the constellation of Taurus.
That supernova developed into the Crab Nebula.
It is believed that Ancient Puebloan natives in northwestern New Mexico observed the same supernova
and recorded it on the overhang of a cliff in the area. There is an interpretation of the phenomenon and
pictograph in this article.
I took a picture of the assemblage--it is easily accessible--but an online photo showed it in better detail.
My avatar picture shows the hand, star and moon right center.
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Re: What is behind your username?
MorkTheFiddle
Wow, that is quite a bit of context for the picture as well!
Wow, that is quite a bit of context for the picture as well!
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Re: What is behind your username?
I selected my username when, out of ideas for a user name, I looked out the window and regarded the cheerful orange and yellow colors of the leaves just outside my window. I pondered putting a space between the two words, but most sites do not allow spaces in user names, then I considered placing the two words together without a space just like in Roman times, and settled for camelCase: no spaces between words and capitalization of each word. I have not seen maple leaves for months, and this morning, in heavy rain, the first ones of the spring are opening up. Soon I shall look out onto green instead of onto greyish white tones.
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Re: What is behind your username?
I was a member of the Hippo Family Club in Japan. The Hippo Family Club is an association where people attempt to learn multiple languages simultaneously without the use of native teachers, although with the help of CD's of dialogues recorded by native language speakers. The club members shadow them and recite the contents to each other in group sessions.
People joining the club generally take nicknames, my nickname in the club was Ichiro. It was selected for me as the lead character in one of the dialogues is a young Japanese man who undertakes a voyage to Mexico, much as I, an Englishman, had undertaken a voyage to Japan.
People joining the club generally take nicknames, my nickname in the club was Ichiro. It was selected for me as the lead character in one of the dialogues is a young Japanese man who undertakes a voyage to Mexico, much as I, an Englishman, had undertaken a voyage to Japan.
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Re: What is behind your username?
Okay, but what is the story behind that name?Ichiro wrote:The Hippo Family Club
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Re: What is behind your username?
Raconteur wrote:Okay, but what is the story behind that name?Ichiro wrote:The Hippo Family Club
I think it's just a motif the founder of the organisation decided to adopt -
https://www.lexhippo.gr.jp/english/
The first Hippo Family Club recordings used a hippo character called 'Kabajin'. They're almost unlistenable. Club members would usually focus on the Ichiro series of recordings, which my name came from.
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Re: What is behind your username?
If you look up the word Xenops, you will find that it is a group of birds that make oven-shaped nests. As related to me, it was the word I used during a family game of Probe, and the only time my word was left undiscovered at the end. Granted, it was misspelled--but my source misspelled it too. It was a children's book that had an animal dedicated to each letter of the English alphabet. Looking back, I wonder why nobody looked further into the spelling--my dad once spelled "koala" as "kuala", and he lost points because of it. So now Xenops seems like a decent moniker for online usage.
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Mine was a lyrics from a song that was currently keep on repeating while registering. The proper lyrics should be "You were a phonograph," but instead I wrote photograph. The title of the song was: "Big Black Car" by Gregory Alan Isakov such a good music!
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