FenrisEuler on 22/2/2001 at 02:10
no offense to any afrikaaners but i think most things sound cooler than afrikaans
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Sharga on 22/2/2001 at 03:54
Sharga is the name of a race from a really sweet game called Stonekeep made by Interplay. It's mideval and the Sharga's are one of the biggest forms of comical relief in the game (besides those funny faries and their songs) I consider myself a funney guy and for some reason I really liked the name (plus it's original and easy to remember). They are green, goblin-like creatures. Some are nice, some aren't so nice, all are funney.
Theyz talkz lik'a dis yo' see? Yousa gots a big ting commin' if ya mez wif me!
Sharga quote: "Yousa in me home! Yousa go away nowz!"
(I personally think they coppied jar-jar's voice from the Shargas and made it a little easier to understand and more high pitched.)
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Oliver Gregory on 24/2/2001 at 17:59
Hey Naartjie - I have always thought it was Nart - ja but i suppose it is nart - jie
now. But i hate the ones which are unprononcable with a load of symbols - erg!
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Dietger on 24/2/2001 at 20:09
Well "Dietger" is just my real name.
An old German name, used for warriors I guess some thousand years ago.Its extreme rare. I only new 2 Dietgers : my father and me
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Tears of the Moon on 24/2/2001 at 22:00
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Ethne- a lesser goddess in the Celtic book of the Dead. I thought that there was no-way anyone would have ever heard this one. (But they are everywhere)The name Eithne (Ethne with an exra "i") is still given to girls in Ireland for sure, and maybe elsewhere. I don't think it's as rare as you first believed.
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif The musician Enya's first name is really Eithne, but she went with Enya becayse that's the phonetic spelling of her name.
There's also a lot of Celtic mythology lovers out there.
(I've always wondered if Enya did that because she got sick of people mispronouncing her name. Maybe I should do that with mine...)
Siftland on 25/2/2001 at 00:17
Might as well.....It's a real interesting story:
You see, once I was "sifting" through a box of magazines and someone yelled, "Land ho!"....cuz I was on a sea-faring vessel of some sort, see, and we were...er...approaching land. So it popped in my head and I went to the prow of the boat and declared: "From now on I shall be known as Siftland!!"
Everyone was very impressed, but not because of of my declaration, but because it had begun to rain bunnies...That was it.
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doogle on 25/2/2001 at 00:30
I'm named after my Hamster who died in 1998, he was my lil baby :o<
Ringmaster on 25/2/2001 at 09:26
I'm the Ringmaster because my school class is like a circus.
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Elusive Paladin on 25/2/2001 at 12:28
Hm....well, I registered here a long time ago with my preferred username, Bejorgen, but then lost the password. So, I used my other preferred name.
Bejorgen has quite an interesting story behind it. It supposedly means "small fish" in Norwegian (or so I say), and this can be used as a conversation icebreaker in the most amazing places. The other part of the name (viz. Hfrungletoper) I saw while playing someone in Delta Force. My surprise at seeing the message "You were shot by A Hfrungletoper" was enough to adopt the name as a pseudo-surname.
Elusive Paladin is much simpler. I love playing Age of Empires II, and the Paladin is without doubt one of the coolest units. Elusive just makes it sound cooler.
I can also offer a pronunciation of Naartjie, in Afrikaans. The "Naar" is pronounced as-is. The "tj" is almost concatenated, giving a "ch" sound, with overtones of "t" (Afrikaans ain't easy to speak). The "ie" is pronounced "ee". See if you can work your way along that
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/smile.gifHere's an interesting tidbit for you - in South Africa, no-one knows what a tangerine is. The word "tangerine" refers to a general orange-type fruit. Everyone uses naartjie. You go to the store - "Naartjies = 70c". Read the news "Naartjie farmer strike in Boland". Look on the net - "Mbeki is a naartjie". How's that for cultural language development?
