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Some of you have interesting usernames. Why did you choose them? What do they mean?

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When I returned to the US permanently after 18 years in Brazil, Portuguese syntax would sometimes creep into my spoken English, causing me like Yoda to sound; i.e. anastrophically.

And you, Hydra?

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Backwards, almost, phonemically, my first name: /'dʒejmz/.


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assuming that one thinks my handle is interesting, it's the old Linotype/English letter usage thang.

Shrdlu. MR. Shrdlu.


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That's interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Me, I just think Hydras are cool.

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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
Backwards, almost, phonemically, my first name: /'dʒejmz/.


Oh jim, could you not just have made it "mij ", I always break my neck over your zmjehd name. Furthermore it would have meant
"me" in Indo Germanic Dutch. So much easier.
I mean you would be you of course.

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"mij ",

I subvocalize zmjezhd as Midge. I like your reconstructed Indo Tectonic Daytsh theory better, though.


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In case it is interesting albeit unoriginal, just thought it had some nostalgic panache. Also seem to recall one poster fancying that perfume.


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it's in the fine print

-joe (atman) friday

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Bran+Shea:two from A Song of Ice and Fire. Soon coming up as an
HBO serial. History-ish Science fiction. Pre or Early medieval.

I wonder where Jackie's name comes from.

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