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My real first name is in my profile...
Thursday, 24-May-12 10:34:48 UTC from web-
@flaredancer Same here. I like my name.
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@flaredancer And your surname is implied by who your brother is.
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@ceruleanspark For those who know his last name, yes.
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@yodelerty The only thing that bothers me about mine is the amount of people who can't spell it right and/or keep asking if it's short for something.
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@flaredancer I can see that being the case. My last name is kind of... well, let's just say I've had a grand total of two people in my entire life pronounce it correctly on their first try.
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@flaredancer What would it be short _for_ exactly? A misspelling?
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@yodelerty I have an idea, but I don't know how to spell it phonetically. Or if I'm right.
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@ceruleanspark People think it's short for "Jennifer". And I actually had a class a few years ago with a girl named Jennifer who went by Jenna, so...
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@flaredancer Give it a try. Hint: you can pronounce it as a combination of three English words.
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@flaredancer I would hypothesise that these people have a poor grasp of spelling. Also they are unable to satisfy their loved ones sexually due to the relative inadequacy of their genitals. Though that is how I deal with most people that I dislike.
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@ceruleanspark I tend to express these hypotheses quite vocally and publically.
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@yodelerty Dye-Chow-Ski is my guess. And I do love your first name. I don't think I've seen that name before.
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@yodelerty Dick-cough-ski?
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@ceruleanspark *snerk* I've also known people to spell my name crazy different. A friend of mine, his mother's name is Jenna, but it's spelled Gina. I've also had to fight with schools to get them to put two Ns in my name instead of one
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@flaredancer Heh, everyone guesses it like that at first. It's actually pronounced Ditch-Cow-Ski. And thank you. ^.^ I also share my first name with a lousy comedian.
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@flaredancer Why would a school not treat the way you spell your own name as definitive.
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@bitshift Admit it: you only said that because dick.
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@yodelerty I share my last name with a mass murderer so yeah
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@yodelerty Oh, yeah… that guy… I tend to forget he exists. What background does your last name come from?
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@ceruleanspark I don't know whether to guess Stalin or Hitler even though it's likely not either of those.
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@ceruleanspark I don't know. Maybe because they get parents who decide to name their kids "La-a" and insist the name is "La-dash-a"
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@yodelerty Think more middle eastern
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@yodelerty Surprisingly (given it's me), no. It's genuinely how I thought the first part was pronounced.
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@flaredancer I believe it's Polish but I'd have to ask my dad. I don't really know much about my family, sadly, as I've never read that much into it.
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@ceruleanspark I'm gonna go with Hussein.
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@yodelerty yeah. Yeah.
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@yodelerty I don't know too much about mine, either. I do know more about my Mom's side, though.
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@bitshift Well, now I'm thinking dick.
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@ceruleanspark Depending on which pronunciation (of his name) is used, you're barely even a syllable away from the full name.
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@bitshift I am...aware.
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@ceruleanspark Adam Hussein? That's way too close, man.
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@yodelerty It has been bought to my attention in the past. Also someone stabbed me in the arm once.
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@flaredancer I basically know nothing because it doesn't interest me that much. One day it might.
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@ceruleanspark Wait, what? O_o
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@ceruleanspark Whaaaaaaaaat.
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@ceruleanspark O.o What a jerk
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@flaredancer If there had only been the one jerk things might have been significantly more manageable.
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@ceruleanspark Sure sounds like it. >.>
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@yodelerty I know that I have a little bit of Tarahumara in me. And, supposedly, my last name was given to the ruling class of a German state.
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@ceruleanspark o_O Bloody hell...
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@ceruleanspark :/ What jerks…
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@flaredancer That actually sounds pretty cool. Mine's probably the name of The Duke of Unpronounceability in ye olde wherever.
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@yodelerty I don't know if it's true, but it would be kind of nifty if it was.
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