sophie
Break My Heart
I usually don't bother with your name, I always just identify you by your avatar haha
Phrossack said:
Well most people should learn as this thread is entirely useless without it.
How do you pronounce usernames?
- Thread starter hobbsyoyo
- Start date
I usually don't bother with your name, I always just identify you by your avatar haha
Well most people should learn as this thread is entirely useless without it.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
Well let's go waaaay back to the start heh.
Firstly, I put absolutely no thought into my user name, rugbyleaguefan, whatsoever. I signed up because I was right into Civ4 and needed some questions answered. I had never signed up for anything on the internet and quickly thought "What do I like? I like rugby league". Sorted. I didn't expect to hang around so I just went with convenience.
Thus I got stuck with a lame ass name that I kind of wear as a badge of honor, a tribute to my lame side so to speak. I take solace that brother NBAfan is on the same page.
Then after I started hanging here and getting to know people, my love of "rugby" was mentioned (I would assume to the uneducated that the "league" part just referred to a league/competition of rugby, not a different game) and I felt, since it is dream of mine that one day America will take to this great game, maybe if I capitalize LEAGUE, the odd yank may get curious and wonder what the hell is going on. This has not turned out to be the case.
So no, it's not to have it shouted. It is for reasons as unimpressive as one may imagine. But I ain't changing, rLf and the Het man are here to stay!
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
I don't pronounce it. I change it to Cyberkhan.
Bugfatty300
Buddha Squirrel
Cybree Khan
I'm not strong with IPA (an old roommate of mine was really good with languages, I picked up what I could but it wasn't enough), but I'm all
that my pronunciation is the longest.
imperialman
Admiral
I've been mentally pronouncing it as "cyber xebec".
sophie
Break My Heart
I'm not strong with IPA (an old roommate of mine was really good with languages, I picked up what I could but it wasn't enough), but I'm all
haha, very good. You should certainly feel flattered that I actually bother to say the full name!
Quackers
The Frog
This thread is entirely useless with IPA.
I don't think I pronounce many of the names here in any particularly interesting way. I have difficulty with Leoreth (in that I have no idea how I pronounce it, though I certainly don't go with Leo-reth, which is probably what most people do).
Ailedhoo is interesting. Alley-doo is what it is to me, but I'm fairly sure it's meant to start with the past participle of ail.
I don't pronounce Zelig as I would zebra, but more as an American would pronounce zebra.
Chukchi Husky just loses the 'chi' for a 'y'.
I completely garble Synsensa. I think I generally subvocalise it as something like Sin-sen-ee-sthia, though I generally don't think about the latter half.
Virote Consortium.
cybrxkhan I identify by avatar.
I don't think I pronounce many of the names here in any particularly interesting way. I have difficulty with Leoreth (in that I have no idea how I pronounce it, though I certainly don't go with Leo-reth, which is probably what most people do).
Ailedhoo is interesting. Alley-doo is what it is to me, but I'm fairly sure it's meant to start with the past participle of ail.
I don't pronounce Zelig as I would zebra, but more as an American would pronounce zebra.
Chukchi Husky just loses the 'chi' for a 'y'.
I completely garble Synsensa. I think I generally subvocalise it as something like Sin-sen-ee-sthia, though I generally don't think about the latter half.
Virote Consortium.
cybrxkhan I identify by avatar.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Seen-zen-za
Ay-lead-hoo
Chuck-chee Husky
Ay-lead-hoo
Chuck-chee Husky
Visorslash
Deity
sigh-bricks-khan
Special-K (kidding, it is Joan (westernised) K)
Zack - Zack
Rugby League fan - exactly as you would expect
Takhisis - Tack-sis
Special-K (kidding, it is Joan (westernised) K)
Zack - Zack
Rugby League fan - exactly as you would expect
Takhisis - Tack-sis
Goodfella
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Contre--> Kahntrah
Traitorfish--> Trader fish
Bugfatty300 --> bugsy fatty
Traitorfish--> Trader fish
Bugfatty300 --> bugsy fatty
Mise
isle of lucy
this is hilarious!!! 
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Same here, come to think of it. In my head whenever I imagine everybody's "real" face, I imagine it's the avatar. Which can get pretty surreal depending on the avatar. And weird when people switch avatars.
IPA's also good to learn in general, anyways, in case you need to quickly figure out how to pronounce something in another language.
I only learned it on the side due to my conlanging, but it's actually not really that hard if you have a bit of time to spare especially if you know at least two languages, and particularly two very different languages.
Gucumatz
JS, secretly Rod Serling
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I was wondering how you wanted that pronounced. Actually I pronounced in my head just as you described
Lucky guess on my part
hobbsyoyo
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Wait wait wait....so you decided to change your username, but you changed it from rugbyleaguefan to rugbyLEAGUEfan??? Badge of honor indeed.
Owen Glyndwr -> O - win Glend - were
Dachs -> Dacks
cybrxkhan -> sigh - burr - zhan
Gucumatz -> goo - coo - matz
Although I would suggest using a "K" instead of a c 