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I am curious about what many of y'all's handles mean - not the ones that are obvious given names, but some of the others. Y'all know who you are! I'll start: Mine stems from when I returned to the U.S. after an 18-year 'stopover' in Brazil: I found my vocabulary hadn't suffered much during my absence, as I worked with words the entire time, but the long-term Latin influence caused my syntax to suffer intermittent involuntary inversion. That under control I think I now have.
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You did that for rhetorical effect! : )
as to tsuwm, it comes from my webpage (see profile). I was once simply wm (wwftd master), but the day the wwftd was atman I became The Supreme Universal Wwftd Master! (tsuwm is also a Hebrew word meaning to fast)
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Thanks, you-all, I've been wondering! (For all who do not live in the U.S. South, you-all is Kentuckian for y'all.) O Supreme one, is it all right if I pronounce your acronym tsu-wum, I hope? Speaking of handles, mikstu, were you ascribing one when you wrote jeff-enuf?
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OK, though you may be disappointed with the result.
Full name: Ravi Shankar Nair
shanks - contraction of middle name that is easier to pronounce for those unaccustomed to the flatter vowels and consonants used by most Indian languages.
Ravi - another name for the sun god (Surya). Poetic licence turns it into 'sunshine'
Nair - Malayali caste name, the equivalent of the standard Hindu kshatriya, or warrior, caste (actually more nobility or landowning, but warrior sounds so much more romantic). Hence the 'warrior'
cheer
the sunshine warrior
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Shucks, I may as well confess. It is really the name of my dog, Lucy, in the form she normally uses. You see, she doesn't spell very well, and the lower case is because she has trouble with the shift key, like her good friend archie who (so she claims) lives under one of our kitchen cupboards with his large family.
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Y'all, I thought I'd move this back up to the top, because I'm still interested in what some of the more esoteric handles mean. I was asked about mine again: AnnaStrophic = anastrophic.
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Hey, Tropic-anna! (Had you thought of that one?) No insult intended! Understand I now think I. Beaucoup merci.
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and as a sidebar to all those who insist on misspelling or providing 'humorous' representations of the pronunciation of tsuwm, the official and correct rendering is "sue-em". Payne and Durance Attorneys at Law http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
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I recently received a query regarding my 'handle'; perhaps this thread will get more response at this point in our development. wadaya say, wow?
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Mine's pretty straightforward - Capital has, and has had, so many meanings. It's a word I really like. Kiwi is self-explanatory, except my beak isn't all that long. The popular definition is .... no, not in this forum.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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