nom de plumes and pronunciation

[only_more_so]

LOL. Thank you. I didn't even know what leet was till recently. I wonder how many people have been mistaking me for a gamer or a hacker

Well, I never mistaked your for a gamer or a hacker (you just don't write/have an image that fits that personality), so I was always a bit confused. Although Elle is a pretty name...

 

[matriarch]

May-tree-ark.................or simply Mat.

Easy-peasy.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

*grin* Not gonna do it.

I was gonna (with a big eye-roll) but now I feel self conscious.

 

[feeeriek]

I do that, too... with "ThreeGoatPig"... and I always called you "three-one-one-three" which was just way too annoying... I like "thirtyone-thirteen" way better!

And what about "Feeeriek" ... just as it looks?

have no idea what the correct pronunciation is... the spelling is a bit
off it should actually be feeëriek... it is dutch... feee does not speak
that nor any variation of that... it is just my usual nym translated
into a different language... i liked it so went with it

 

[oggbashan]

Been meaning to ask for years. Why the extra g?

It's a longish story. I've posted it before but:

For a short time in my life I went to a boarding school. I didn't get much mail because my parents were abroad and as I had been abroad as well I didn't have many UK based friends.

I decided to send for some of the offers on the inside of my postage stamp book. One of them was for a series of free weekly leaflets explaining the Catholic faith. "Free" was the real attraction but since I had been visiting a Catholic country and would be again I thought that it might be useful to understand the Catholic faith.

The coupon in the postage stamp book was very small and my handwriting was (and is) appalling.

One of the tenets of the school was that all pupils had a three-digit number and that number was almost more important than your name. If asked by a teacher who you were, your answer should be military style but name, form, number instead of the army's name, rank, number. The numbers were reused.

My school number was 099.

When I completed the coupon I added 099 after my surname. Those sending out the weekly leaflets assumed I had a hyphenated name, mysurname-ogg.

Each week I received an anonymous brown paper envelope addressed to mysurname-ogg. Mail was distributed by the House Master after supper. He would read out the name and the recipient would march to the head table and collect the mail. Of course there was no 'mysurname-ogg' in the school but my real surname is distinctive. There was no doubt that the envelope was for me.

After the first week, and after checking that the anonymous envelope contained innocuous material, my House (and Classics) Master made a joke of it, calling me Og, Rex Basiliensis, a Latin version of Og, King of Bashan. My school nickname became oggbashan. The extra 'g' was for my school number 099.

When I needed a nom-de-plume for writing erotica, I remembered my fifty-year-old nickname that no one I was in contact with would recall. I left that school after only 5 terms (semesters) and went on to other schools, losing contact with anyone there. Og, King of Bashan was already in use elsewhere on the internet but oggbashan was and is unique.

Another advantage of oggbashan is that, apart from the Biblical character, it has no associations. oggbashan could mean anything unlike many nom-de-plumes on Literotica.

Og, Rex Basiliensis, 099

 

[gauchecritic]

May-tree-ark.................or simply Mat.

Easy-peasy.

You've been with goslings too long. but then I say Mat-ricks instead of may-tricks.

Still not sure about Sam and i reeal.

I'm reminded of my typing lessons when we had to transcribe various letters from a certain company for each individual section.

The company was called Praxiteles.

I realised after about 18 months that it was probably Greek and wasn't pronounced Praxitells or Prax-eye-tells or Praxittles but Prax-it-ell-ees.

Tanya chris. I got that while looking for examples but had usually pronounced it Tanny acres.

Munachi and Feeeriek I got. (even if I do pronounce it Firey-eck

 

[impressive]

Tanya chris. I got that while looking for examples but had usually pronounced it Tanny acres.

Me, too.

 

[Guest]

nee-oh-new-rot'ick

I have no idea what it means. I just made it up as a chat handle at an old-style Chathouse in 2001 and used it for everything on the internet ever since because I liked being called "neo", unfortunately, I get a lot of "neon" too.

 

[The_Fool]

nee-oh-new-rot'ick

I have no idea what it means. I just made it up as a chat handle at an old-style Chathouse in 2001 and used it for everything on the internet ever since because I liked being called "neo", unfortunately, I get a lot of "neon" too.

I just always assumed it meant you had some new form of mindtwisting going on...

 

[impressive]

nee-oh-new-rot'ick

I have no idea what it means. I just made it up as a chat handle at an old-style Chathouse in 2001 and used it for everything on the internet ever since because I liked being called "neo", unfortunately, I get a lot of "neon" too.

neon - urotic

 

[TE999]

That's Tee--Eee--nyun--nyun--nyun.

Or if you're in the military.:

Tango--Echo--niner--niner--niner.

Over and out.

Whoops, forgot the explanation.

It's the handle my ISP gave me when I applied for an e-mail account.

Beats thinking of something clever (grin).

Peace.

 

[cloudy]

I don't know whether to be pissed off that my name's so easy, or really glad.

 

[The_Fool]

I don't know whether to be pissed off that my name's so easy, or really glad.

Kind of hard to fuck ours up isn't it?

 

[Huckleman2000]

Really? I assumed it was leet for "Elle". I like you so much better now!

That's what I thought it was too! In fact, I've called her "Hax0r Elle" several times - no wonder she never acknowledged it.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Kind of hard to fuck ours up isn't it?

Roger that.

 

[Belegon]

bell - eh -gone

translation of my given name into J.R.R. Tolkien's sindarin elvish language by breaking my name into it's anglo-saxon root meaning and then making an elvish word with the same meaning.

I've used it as a nom de plume for more than 25 years...

 

[3113]

That's what I thought it was too! In fact, I've called her "Hax0r Elle" several times - no wonder she never acknowledged it.

You did?

Dude. My apologies. Don't blame yourself. I'm clueless

 

[CBM_Redux]

Say Bay Em - Redü

 

[Stella_Omega]

Trin-eek

Well, but what about the second part?

 

[ChristopherMaxwell]

Now I'm glad that I picked an actual bloody pen name. I don't expect that "Christopher Maxwell" is all that tough to pronounce, eh, darlings? Now, my good friend Sev....he's a different story. Hell, I've known several to even call him "SERVERUSMAX", thus adding an extra R. Poor bloke. Smart, but still he blew it in picking such a bloody difficult name to pronounce. I tease him about it at times, but he takes it in good humor.

Starting to sing....."For he's a jolly good fellow", just to get on the bloke's nerves. LOL. He knows that I mean it in good fun.

Didn't know that about Lizzy's pen name. I always thought that it was an initial too. Glad to see that I'm not alone. So, how do you pronounce gauchecritic, by the way, eh, chap?

 

[Huckleman2000]

You did?

Dude. My apologies. Don't blame yourself. I'm clueless

LOL, I'm ignored often enough not to take things too personally. Actually, I just thought I had blown your cover and you were being coy. Clearly, the wrong interpretation is my own over-analysis. So what else is new?

Although, clearly, you would have known I would know you were merely feigning. Knowing this, you would choose not to acknowledge my calling of your true name. I, Knowing this of course, knew that you had fallen into one of the greatest traps in history! The greatest, of course, is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but right behind that is "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!" I'm actually part Bohemian, and not at all Sicilian, but you get my point. Dead European nationalities aren't to be trifled with! They could come back to haunt you in myriad ineffectual ways!

 

[gauchecritic]

So, how do you pronounce gauchecritic, by the way, eh, chap?

Erm, two words, gauche-critic.

go-sshhh. (French for 'left'. In english used as a term to mean socially cack-handed.) (Cack from the baby-french 'caca' meaning shit.) (the shit hand is the left one from an Indian custom of only using that hand for wiping the arse)