where does your username come from?

[Miss_Bungle1991]

Mine is kind of a term of endearment I use for my dogs I just thinks it's cute to call them anything with 'pants' tacked on to the end. cutiepants.. sugarpants.. pumpkinpants. puppypants.. it could go on and on.

Fatty McButterPants?

[Xhianil]

Also, how do you pronounce your name Xhianil? I'm reading it as zee-ah-nil.

X-han-nil, or close to that,

[Xhianil]

I still have no idea how to pronounce it.  Not sure how X by itself as a part of a word is pronounced in this situation.  Is it like "ex" or like "z" or something else?

ex

[YBtheOutlaw]

Kia Ora YB,

I'm under the impression you already know what "Anatta" means...

BTW Zen da is just a fetish for all [no]things Zen...

Metta Zenda

well to be honest i had to look it up in google, and it turns out that i know it alright, it's just that we use a different word for it here. not much difference, we call it anatma

[RobinGee]

Robin is a perfectly acceptable male nickname derived from my given name.   It's also a pretty female name on its own.

I chose it because I'm realizing my female self is more me than I've realized in the past and I want to acknowledge m the same person, just expressed differently.

I used to use Wendy as a female name, but can't stand it now

Particle is a name I've used forever.  It's from the They Might Be Giants song, Particle Man

[dalebert]

You will always be Dalebert (of the bad jokes) to me! 

I've practically taken over that thread. One day everyone's just gonna say "SHUT UP!"

[Miss_Bungle1991]

I've practically taken over that thread. One day everyone's just gonna say "SHUT UP!"

SHUT UP LITTLE MAN!!

[Constance]

My username is shades.ogrey and it comes from the fact that I try to see issues in more than just binary options (this or that, right or left, black or white). I've since changed my display name to be my first name because I'm out of the closet.

[BlonT]

Simple i am BlonT    ok ok  grey 

[Anna++]

My username is based on my real name - first initial, middle initial, first 6 letters of my last name.  The university I attended suggested this format when I registered, and I kept the pattern but changed the first and middle initials.  Actually, my username here is based on the name I was considering taking before I even found "Anna" (I wonder if I can talk somebody into changing that?)

My display name (Anna++) is a reference to programming.  The "++" operator increments a value by 1.

Code Select Expand


a = 1   # The variable "a" holds the value "1"
a++     # "a" is now "2"
a++     # "a" is now "3"


[Crackpot]

Tiffols is one of the thousand nicknames my wife has given me in 8 years.

[Chaos]

Mine is a mix of a few different things.

First,it is the name of the devil persona by my fave video game charactor
(Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy:Dirge Of Cerberus)
And Second,I use it as well as a roleplay charactor of my own on IMVU and
Third,I been known to cause a lot of Chaos when angry lol though I try to avoid that at all costs.

[Adam (birkin)]

This thread is really interesting.

I settled on caleb. as a username because, I like the name Caleb, and...a guy already had an account with the name so I added a period at the end of mine. *trollface*

[JRD]

I'll go on and say why I have the username that I do. I've seen it posted before about the probability of late transitioners to have larger heads and long faces. So I figured what the heck, lets go with it...

[MadeleineG]

X-han-nil, or close to that,

Thank you for clarifying. I had interpreted the xh as a voiceless aspirated alveolar lateral click as in the Xhosa language.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Alveolar_lateral_click.ogg

[Xhianil]

Thank you for clarifying. I had interpreted the xh as a voiceless aspirated alveolar lateral click as in the Xhosa language.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Alveolar_lateral_click.ogg

... i suddenly feel dumb...

[Emmaline]

Emmaline was the heroine in my first novel.  I wrote it before I came out to myself, and realized it was a metaphorical version of my battle with being trans. 

My chosen name is Delaney - an irish surname that is now a unisex first name.  It is shifting to female in popularity though.  It means dark challenger-though I picked it not for meaning- but it is a form of the name laney, which I love and keeps my D initial from my old name.   Being unisex and mostly female describes me perfectly.

[Calder Smith]

Well, I'm a big hockey fan lol kind of self explanatory.

[MadeleineG]

Well, I'm a big hockey fan lol kind of self explanatory.

I instantly jumped to this dude:

[Calder Smith]

I instantly jumped to this dude:

I love Gordie Howe! Lol, he was some of the inspiration for my username I guess.