G-Man
A One Man's War
IceBlaze - I don't think you'll be having much fun winning against me... Now if you had OFP it would've been fun.
Names and origins....
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IceBlaze - I don't think you'll be having much fun winning against me... Now if you had OFP it would've been fun.
Originally posted by G-Man
IceBlaze - I don't think you'll be having much fun winning against me... Now if you had OFP it would've been fun.
OFP
Operation Flashpoint?
If that's it, I don't have it.
Besides, I'm not a good player at TFC, I just enjoy playing it
The Art of War
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Originally posted by Morgasshk
Also Han's beginnings would be cool as well, especially when he first becomes enemies with boba Fett on Corellia...
Nar Shadaa, nar shadaa. (not corellia)
ANyway, my name is from the great manuscripts written by Sun Tzu, a chinese generel (I think).
G-Man
A One Man's War
Originally posted by IceBlaZe
OFP
Operation Flashpoint?
If that's it, I don't have it.
Besides, I'm not a good player at TFC, I just enjoy playing it
Yes it's operation flashpoint.
Anyway you don't know how bad I am at TFC... I once got killed 15 times by my own team + 18 times by the other team in a single round!
duke o' york
It don't mean a thing....
By my reckoning, half a post thus far on this page is about the origins of someone's name. Well, this one isn't either but please talk about this sort of thing in All Other Games. PH is always delighted to see you! 
ComradeDavo
Formerly God
Davo came about because my name is Dave and our local football club, Bath City used to have a player named Mike Davis who went by the nickname of 'Davo'...and my friends kind of decided to call me it to.
Comrade......I dunno I think I was bored when I registered on these forums.
And silverbot...the Transformers rule!
Comrade......I dunno I think I was bored when I registered on these forums.
And silverbot...the Transformers rule!
Hitro
Feistus Raclettus
I think I've answered this in another thread but anyway...
Hitro doesn't really have any special meaning. It was a word my (then) young cousin used to describe something, we never found out what he meant though. He could have meant 'hetero' (which is kind of unlikely for a little child but sounds quite similar) or nothing of sense at all. It became a joke-word (hard to describe) between my brother and me and when I needed a nickname I took this cause as far as I knew it doesn't mean anything.
Searches on the internet brought me to the conclusion that it probably means something in a slavic language but I have no idea what.
G-Man: You play OFP online? No problems with lag? It's a great game though...
Hitro doesn't really have any special meaning. It was a word my (then) young cousin used to describe something, we never found out what he meant though. He could have meant 'hetero' (which is kind of unlikely for a little child but sounds quite similar) or nothing of sense at all. It became a joke-word (hard to describe) between my brother and me and when I needed a nickname I took this cause as far as I knew it doesn't mean anything.
Searches on the internet brought me to the conclusion that it probably means something in a slavic language but I have no idea what.
G-Man: You play OFP online? No problems with lag?
It's a great game though...
The Romans, being a very literal people, named it that because of the hot springs and bath house ther. It is a very nice old town. Tourist even come into it on rented canal boats on the 1800s canal.
Switch625
I don't care.
Yep, the Romans take the prize for literal-mindedness. One of the Roman emperors was named Octavian. Do you know what his name means? It means "eight." I believe he was the eighth child of his parents.
I can't imagine anyone naming their child for a number, but for the Romans it wasn't unusual.
Hitro
Feistus Raclettus
Thick? Quickly??? Hmm...Originally posted by IceBlaZe
Hitro means 'Quickly' in serbian and 'Thick' in Croatian
Anyway, thanks!
ComradeDavo
Formerly God
Yep, that pretty much somes my home city up
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Rain was originally Red Rain (Mage in MMORPG AC) derived from Peter Gabriel's song, it later became Rain in Winter (my battlewytch also in AC on the Wintersebb server). From there it was simply Rain (Enchantress in DAOC another MMORPG). Many of my cities are called after nature as well, but my capital is always Rain. 
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Re: The SKILORD
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Originally posted by SKILORD2
Well..... my father's polish.
The Wilczynski name is impronouncable to the American tongue and it was thusly shortened to Ski by various people, i embraced this nickname wholeheartedly in order to avoid the Mispronounciations. The came planetarion, i became Ski, Lord of.... this was then shortened to Skilord, a name which i have taken a likeing to.
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Something like 'will-sin-ski', right?
My grandparents are Polish, too. I've got the name, Gasiorowski.
(My one great-grandparent's name was 'Szerszen'). Her first name is even harder to spell.
*Sigh* For the record, Germans can have much longer names than Poles...
English phonetics:
"Wilczynski" = "Veel-chihnskee" (derived from "wilczek", meaning "wolf".)
"Gasiorowski" = "Gahshorofskee" (I suspect from the verb "gasic", "to extinguish", like a fire. Old name for fireman?)
"Szerszen" = "Share-shen". (This one's easy: "szerszen" = "hornet".)
The "n"s in Wilczynski and Szerszen both are accented which changes their pronunciation a bit (kind of like the Spanish "ñ"), but you get the idea.
BTW, like all Slavic peoples, Poles distinguish between males and females in surnames that are formed with adjectives (i.e., end with "-ski"). Masculine names end with "-ski" and feminine names end in "-ska". For instance, my last name is Jankowski but my wife's last name is "Jankowska". Names formed from nouns (like "Szerszen") aren't affected. I know many Polish ex-pat families outside Poland give up and just uniformly apply the masculine form ("-ski") to the whole family.
Back on topic, this thread is indeed a duplicate. On the last thread I answered that "Vrylakas" is an ancient pseudo-Slavic & Greek term used in the Balkans for Vampire. I am by profession a researcher and while everything I do is strictly legal I often have to be tricky in getting information. I often feel like I am swooping down or using subterfuge to acquire the information I need, and indeed often many learn of my presence in professional situations only after I'm gone and I've got what I need. Someone made the comparison between what we do and vampires once, and it stuck. I use it as my e-mail monicker as well, so it just seemed convenient to use it in the CivFanatic forums. The very venerable Az, a person whom I've not heard from in a very long time, once pointed out that modern Greek uses the term "Vrykolakas" for vampire and I thought about changing things, but it was too much hassle.
...And because of this, I am probably one of the few people on this forum to use this Smiley:
:vampire:
Re: The SKILORD
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Originally posted by SKILORD2
Well..... my father's polish.
The Wilczynski name is impronouncable to the American tongue and it was thusly shortened to Ski by various people, i embraced this nickname wholeheartedly in order to avoid the Mispronounciations. The came planetarion, i became Ski, Lord of.... this was then shortened to Skilord, a name which i have taken a likeing to.
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Something like 'will-sin-ski', right?
My grandparents are Polish, too. I've got the name, Gasiorowski.
(My one great-grandparent's name was 'Szerszen'). Her first name is even harder to spell.
*Sigh* For the record, Germans can have much longer names than Poles...
English phonetics:
"Wilczynski" = "Veel-chihnskee" (derived from "wilczek", meaning "wolf".)
"Gasiorowski" = "Gahshorofskee" (I suspect from the verb "gasic", "to extinguish", like a fire. Old name for fireman?)
"Szerszen" = "Share-shen". (This one's easy: "szerszen" = "hornet".)
The "n"s in Wilczynski and Szerszen both are accented which changes their pronunciation a bit (kind of like the Spanish "ñ"), but you get the idea.
BTW, like all Slavic peoples, Poles distinguish between males and females in surnames that are formed with adjectives (i.e., end with "-ski"). Masculine names end with "-ski" and feminine names end in "-ska". For instance, my last name is Jankowski but my wife's last name is "Jankowska". Names formed from nouns (like "Szerszen") aren't affected. I know many Polish ex-pat families outside Poland give up and just uniformly apply the masculine form ("-ski") to the whole family.
Back on topic, this thread is indeed a duplicate. On the last thread I answered that "Vrylakas" is an ancient pseudo-Slavic & Greek term used in the Balkans for Vampire. I am by profession a researcher and while everything I do is strictly legal I often have to be tricky in getting information. I often feel like I am swooping down or using subterfuge to acquire the information I need, and indeed often many learn of my presence in professional situations only after I'm gone and I've got what I need. Someone made the comparison between what we do and vampires once, and it stuck. I use it as my e-mail monicker as well, so it just seemed convenient to use it in the CivFanatic forums. The very venerable Az, a person whom I've not heard from in a very long time, once pointed out that modern Greek uses the term "Vrykolakas" for vampire and I thought about changing things, but it was too much hassle.
...And because of this, I am probably one of the few people on this forum to use this Smiley:
:vampire:
G-Man
A One Man's War
Originally posted by Hitro
G-Man: You play OFP online? No problems with lag?
I used to but now they closed the Israeli server and the european servers are too slow... Anyway I'm addicted to this game. I'm even a member in one of it's mods.
Sixchan
Emperor
Sixchan.
Semi-Japanese meaning "Little Six"
Many years ago, there was a TV show called "The Prisoner" (and most of you weren't born yet). It was about a Spy who discovered...uhh...well, he discovered something, you never find out what, and he resigns from his job. When he gets home his house is gassed, and when he wakes up he is in "the villiage". The show is about his attempts to escape.
Where am I?
In the Village.
What do you want?
Information.
Whose side are you on?
That would be telling . . .
We want Information. Information. INFORMATION.
You won't get it!
By hook or by crook . . .We will.
Who are you?
The new Number Two.
Who is Number One?
You are Number Six.
I am not a number . . .I'm a free man!
(Mocking laughter)
So, I am Number Six, never a free man.
the suffix '-chan' is just something I tagged on at the end. Many Otaku use the suffix in their nicknames.
Semi-Japanese meaning "Little Six"
Many years ago, there was a TV show called "The Prisoner" (and most of you weren't born yet). It was about a Spy who discovered...uhh...well, he discovered something, you never find out what, and he resigns from his job. When he gets home his house is gassed, and when he wakes up he is in "the villiage". The show is about his attempts to escape.
Where am I?
In the Village.
What do you want?
Information.
Whose side are you on?
That would be telling . . .
We want Information. Information. INFORMATION.
You won't get it!
By hook or by crook . . .We will.
Who are you?
The new Number Two.
Who is Number One?
You are Number Six.
I am not a number . . .I'm a free man!
(Mocking laughter)
So, I am Number Six, never a free man.
the suffix '-chan' is just something I tagged on at the end. Many Otaku use the suffix in their nicknames.
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