Is it weird when people address you by your Forum Name?
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Zardnaar
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Nope been using this name since 2001. Use it on discord and everyone calls me it.
Gets used more than my real middle name.
Gets used more than my real middle name.
GNU TP!
I suppose the question is would you prefer to be abbreviated to AD or CE?
H4run
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Lol, Haroon or Harun is not my legal name, but it's my real name for a good portion of peoples and also for myself, sounds strange but it is what it is.
dusters
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Classmates called me dusters when I was 14. It was so cool. I'm the one who cleans. I love clean places. DUSTERS are great! 
I would feel very delighted if anyone from my class 20+ years ago met me and remembered my OG nickname.
I would feel very delighted if anyone from my class 20+ years ago met me and remembered my OG nickname.
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You can change it to Harun via settings now.
Lexicus
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I don't feel weird when people call me by my forum name on the forum, and it makes me feel loved when people say Lex instead of Lexicus
Two things I was told when choosing my SCA name were:
1. Is it what I want to be called, both in person and when people are referring to me; is it reasonably easy to spell; and
2. How does it sound when someone is shouting it (as in being called to court by a herald).*
My name passed the first one with flying colors. The second one... it sounds fine when the herald doesn't mangle it. I still think that if you want to be a court herald in the SCA you should make a point of learning how to say the names you're calling out. It's not like mine is hard. I'd add that whoever adds that person's name to the list of court business should include a phonetic guide if it's a complicated name (awards are intended to be a surprise for the recipient, so they can't go around asking the recipients how to pronounce their names).
*This is aka the "Shout Test" and is also applicable to when you're choosing a name for your pet or your kid. How easy is it to shout, have the pet or kid respond, and it's not embarrassing.
1. Is it what I want to be called, both in person and when people are referring to me; is it reasonably easy to spell; and
2. How does it sound when someone is shouting it (as in being called to court by a herald).*
My name passed the first one with flying colors. The second one... it sounds fine when the herald doesn't mangle it. I still think that if you want to be a court herald in the SCA you should make a point of learning how to say the names you're calling out. It's not like mine is hard. I'd add that whoever adds that person's name to the list of court business should include a phonetic guide if it's a complicated name (awards are intended to be a surprise for the recipient, so they can't go around asking the recipients how to pronounce their names).
*This is aka the "Shout Test" and is also applicable to when you're choosing a name for your pet or your kid. How easy is it to shout, have the pet or kid respond, and it's not embarrassing.
warpus
In pork I trust
Not in my case, because many people know me as warpus and refer to me as such, and that's been the case for almost 30 years.
I adopted warpus as my nickname in the early-to-mid 1990s and started using it on local bulletin board systems (that you'd call with a modem) as well as in the textmode art scene. "Warpus" has its origins at the high school I attended, and some of my friends there knew me as warpus from the 10th grade on or so. Most of my friends at the time were either high school friends or BBS friends, so basically all my friends either knew about this nickname or were actively using it. In the 1990s I also released some music as warpus with the music group ANMA (absolutely no musical abilities), we were a decently respectable hit in our local high school and adjacent friendsphere, as well as with the local tracking music collective Spleen. All these things contributed to the name sticking.
What also helped was that my mom took a bright orange toque (read: hat) and sewed a green WARPUS onto it for me. I don't think I even asked her to do this - she made this as a gift for me of her own accord. I ended up wearing this toque all the time and so it became a sort of symbol for me. If you didn't know my name, you could just look up and read my toque. My friend Kelly also made me an orange t-shirt with 'warpus' on the front in black.. It was inspired by the toque. When I wear both at the same time I get special powers, but the letters have faded somewhat over the years..
My mom clued in that people were calling me warpus pretty quickly though. I made a BBS door game with a friend once, and people ended up calling us to ask how to install it.. from places like the U.S. and Brazil. My mom would pick up the phone, and there were strange people with strange accents asking about somebody named warpus. She had to ask the first time, but not after that. I also sometimes got phone calls from textmode art group people, asking for art. Back in those days each group released a monthly pack of art, at the end of the month. So in the days leading up to the end of the month, groups would reach out to their members to try to prod them to finish and submit some art. I wasn't expecting a phone call in this case myself either - before this I was in local groups and that never happened.. So it surprised me too, but it made me feel 1337
These days both names can be used interchangeably. I was going to formally make warpus my middle name, but.. that's too much of a headache. I react to both names with the same amount of non-confusion and non-awkwardness. Furthermore, all the Polish variants of my name are also acceptable, depending on context. The German variant is okay only for Germans or people I knew in West Germany.
I adopted warpus as my nickname in the early-to-mid 1990s and started using it on local bulletin board systems (that you'd call with a modem) as well as in the textmode art scene. "Warpus" has its origins at the high school I attended, and some of my friends there knew me as warpus from the 10th grade on or so. Most of my friends at the time were either high school friends or BBS friends, so basically all my friends either knew about this nickname or were actively using it. In the 1990s I also released some music as warpus with the music group ANMA (absolutely no musical abilities), we were a decently respectable hit in our local high school and adjacent friendsphere, as well as with the local tracking music collective Spleen. All these things contributed to the name sticking.
What also helped was that my mom took a bright orange toque (read: hat) and sewed a green WARPUS onto it for me. I don't think I even asked her to do this - she made this as a gift for me of her own accord. I ended up wearing this toque all the time and so it became a sort of symbol for me. If you didn't know my name, you could just look up and read my toque. My friend Kelly also made me an orange t-shirt with 'warpus' on the front in black.. It was inspired by the toque. When I wear both at the same time I get special powers, but the letters have faded somewhat over the years..
My mom clued in that people were calling me warpus pretty quickly though. I made a BBS door game with a friend once, and people ended up calling us to ask how to install it.. from places like the U.S. and Brazil. My mom would pick up the phone, and there were strange people with strange accents asking about somebody named warpus. She had to ask the first time, but not after that. I also sometimes got phone calls from textmode art group people, asking for art. Back in those days each group released a monthly pack of art, at the end of the month. So in the days leading up to the end of the month, groups would reach out to their members to try to prod them to finish and submit some art. I wasn't expecting a phone call in this case myself either - before this I was in local groups and that never happened.. So it surprised me too, but it made me feel 1337
These days both names can be used interchangeably. I was going to formally make warpus my middle name, but.. that's too much of a headache. I react to both names with the same amount of non-confusion and non-awkwardness. Furthermore, all the Polish variants of my name are also acceptable, depending on context. The German variant is okay only for Germans or people I knew in West Germany.
Your mom sounds cool!
It's fun when a parent gets involved in creative and fannish things. My mother couldn't care less, but my dad enjoyed helping out with the Star Trek club stuff when I had parties at the house (our first annual club barbecue was in my back yard and saw the origin of one of my alter-egos - Alexius Trebekius, who was the host of Star Trek Jeopardy!). My dad liked Doctor Who, and I remember a conversation one time when we ran into each other at the bank:Me: "Don't forget, Who's on at seven!"
My dad: "Oh, good, thanks!"
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H4run
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Glad to know, will do that soon, Haroon is the Westernized version of Harun, I see the name Haroon like Maroon or Racoon, not cool.
Maroon is a shade of red, and racoons are cute.
Snowygerry
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It is also a verb,
maroon (v.)
"put ashore on a desolate island or coast" by way of punishment, 1724 (implied in marooning), earlier "to be lost in the wild" (1690s); from maroon, maron (n.) "fugitive black slave living in the wilder parts of Dutch Guyana or Jamaica and other West Indies islands" (1660s), earlier symeron (1620s), from French marron, simarron, said to be a corruption of Spanish cimmaron "wild, untamed, unruly, fugitive" (as in Cuban negro cimarron "a fugitive black slave"). This is from Old Spanish cimarra "thicket," which is probably from cima "summit, top" (from Latin cyma "sprout"), and the notion is of living wild in the mountains. Related: Marooned.
www.etymonline.com
maroon (v.)
"put ashore on a desolate island or coast" by way of punishment, 1724 (implied in marooning), earlier "to be lost in the wild" (1690s); from maroon, maron (n.) "fugitive black slave living in the wilder parts of Dutch Guyana or Jamaica and other West Indies islands" (1660s), earlier symeron (1620s), from French marron, simarron, said to be a corruption of Spanish cimmaron "wild, untamed, unruly, fugitive" (as in Cuban negro cimarron "a fugitive black slave"). This is from Old Spanish cimarra "thicket," which is probably from cima "summit, top" (from Latin cyma "sprout"), and the notion is of living wild in the mountains. Related: Marooned.
maroon | Etymology, origin and meaning of maroon by etymonline
MAROON Meaning: "very dark red or crimson color," 1791 (marone), from French couleur marron, the color of a marron… See origin and meaning of maroon.
www.etymonline.com
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TheMeInTeam
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i am used to both real name and forum name, though admittedly i've used "themeinteam" so long that people who are old enough to post here might not have been born yet when i first made a handle with it. you get used to it after a while.
it would be weird if someone i only know from offline interactions used it though
it would be weird if someone i only know from offline interactions used it though
So what is the correct pronunciation of your new username?
