So, Who the Heck ARE You, anyway?

[Seicher Rae]

As a public service I will not be changing my name. So Scylla, you and everyone else will know who it is that is YELLING at you in the most knee-slapping hilarious way. Others will still be able to nod while reading my comments while saying out loud, "She's always so brilliant! And look, no spelling errors! No noun/verb disagreements. No comma splicing! How does she do that so consistently?" and then cutting and pasting said comments to a Word file to be able to read over and over. Of course this will still be done while thinking my name is pronounced SIGH-ker instead of Seeker, but that is part of the fun, no? Google searches will not be hampered.

YW.

I'm a giver.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

7 hours ago, HillaryHijinks said:

Are you serious? I can already hear you chanting...

Block her up! 

Block her up!

OMG.

What have I done?

[Scylla Rhiadra]

1 hour ago, Ceka Cianci said:

I mean we could all be part of some wild and crazy high fashion over sexed virtual world run by some, who knows who,for all we know.

/me shudders

That's the stuff of nightmares, Ceka.

Thank god SL isn't like that at all.

[Amina Sopwith]

29 minutes ago, Seicher Rae said:

Of course this will still be done while thinking my name is pronounced SIGH-ker instead of Seeker, but that is part of the fun, no? 

Oops. In my head I've been pronouncing it Say-sher. Sorry.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

1 minute ago, Amina Sopwith said:

Oops. In my head I've been pronouncing it Say-sher. Sorry.

Wow, that's a stretch.

It's obviously Say-chur.

[Amina Sopwith]

3 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Wow, that's a stretch.

It's obviously Say-chur.

And you were Skiller, until I knew better.

Oh God. If I change my surname, clearly it has to be Puddle. Say it out loud.

ETA: Oh bugger, it's Puddles. Doesn't work.

Edited April 14, 2020 by Amina Sopwith

[Seicher Rae]

3 minutes ago, Amina Sopwith said:

Oops. In my head I've been pronouncing it Say-sher. Sorry.

That's a new one.  (To me anyway.) Usually people want to make it German... I only know that because I used to go to concerts with voice enabled, and when musicians were calling out who was there it was always SIGHker after a LOT of fumbling.   

The inadvertent spelling error (should be Siecher, for one) is now so ingrained into my SL experience there is no way I'd change it now.

 

[Amina Sopwith]

1 minute ago, Seicher Rae said:

That's a new one.  (To me anyway.) Usually people want to make it German... I only know that because I used to go to concerts with voice enabled, and when musicians were calling out who was there it was always SIGHker after a LOT of fumbling.   

The inadvertent spelling error (should be Siecher, for one) is now so ingrained into my SL experience there is no way I'd change it now.

 

I Googled and it does seem to be German...what should it be? 

[Seicher Rae]

4 minutes ago, Amina Sopwith said:

And you were Skiller

ahahahaha. That's brill, adding the nonexistent R to the end, even in your head. 

[Amina Sopwith]

Just now, Seicher Rae said:

ahahahaha. That's brill, adding the nonexistent R to the end, even in your head. 

It might be my accent. Southern standard English. 

[Ceka Cianci]

2 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

/me shudders

That's the stuff of nightmares, Ceka.

Thank god SL isn't like that at all.

Thank you..I'm just now finding out it was all just a dream.. Just some wild and crazy dream..

 

 

[Seicher Rae]

Just now, Amina Sopwith said:

I Googled and it does seem to be German...what should it be? 

Well, I wanted it to be Seeker, but thought spelling it out properly as Seeker was too... New Age icky or something. So I got "clever" and played with the way in English you can get the same pronunciation with various combinations. It should be the old i before e except after c rule, but I can't spell and so I misspelled my made up spelling.

I didn't realize that you couldn't fix names after you made them official otherwise I might have been more careful. I also might have checked to make sure it wasn't weird in other languages. I learned early on that seicher is French for cuttlefish, which is weird but not horrible. I only found out about four years ago that in some dialect on one side of some German/Swiss Alp that it is a pretty nasty sexual slur for a female. Which explains why in my early days I kept getting lewd remarks from horney German avatars.

[Rolig Loon]

3 hours ago, Matty Luminos said:

The only ordinary name on the list is Rowley.

"Good morning!  Roly, Poly, Pudding & Porridge, Attorneys at Law, Anthony Rowley speaking. How may we help you?"

[Selene Gregoire]

27 minutes ago, Amina Sopwith said:

Oops. In my head I've been pronouncing it Say-sher. Sorry.

No, it's sietch-er. Haven't you ever read Dune? 

[Seicher Rae]

1 minute ago, Rolig Loon said:

"Good morning!  Roly, Poly, Pudding & Porridge, Attorneys at Law, Anthony Rowley speaking. How may we help you?"

Rawley pronounced Roh-lee, to rhyme with Pole-ee? Huh. I read it as Rawley pronounced like Raleigh NC, with a bit of a W before the L. Rah-wul-eee.

[Selene Gregoire]

8 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:

"Good morning!  Roly, Poly, Pudding & Porridge, Attorneys at Law, Anthony Rowley speaking. How may we help you?"

Raw-lee huh. So what has Lee so raw? Or do we want to know? 

[Rolig Loon]

14 minutes ago, Seicher Rae said:

Rawley pronounced Roh-lee, to rhyme with Pole-ee? Huh. I read it as Rawley pronounced like Raleigh NC, with a bit of a W before the L. Rah-wul-eee.

What, what, what? Of course they rhyme. It's an Olde Englishe tune.  Roly and poly and ROWLEY wouldn't fit in the same song if they didn't rhyme.  Raleigh is another chap completely.

[Seicher Rae]

The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language. — George Bernard Shaw(and in the USA that would be Bern-naahrd and in the UK Bern-nerd)

[Seicher Rae]

Pretty good, Scylla, this OP started sliding into derail on the first page! I think captivity ups the Forum's collective game.

[LittleMe Jewell]

12 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

It's occurred to me that, as people now begin to change their names, their monikers on the forum are going to change too.

Which is going to make it difficult to know who is yelling at me sometimes.

Not only this, but I just realized that when I go hunting through my inworld Friends list for UsedToBeNamedOneThing, but they changed their name, so now I have no clue who the heck I'm hunting for. 

This could get quite interesting..... or frustrating, more likely.

[ballparkdogg]

Not changing username.  

[kali Wylder]

1 hour ago, Amina Sopwith said:

Oops. In my head I've been pronouncing it Say-sher. Sorry.

You mean it's not See Cher?

[Sylvia Tamalyn]

1 hour ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Not only this, but I just realized that when I go hunting through my inworld Friends list for UsedToBeNamedOneThing, but they changed their name, so now I have no clue who the heck I'm hunting for. 

This could get quite interesting..... or frustrating, more likely.

I noticed last night while glancing at my friend list that one of my friends changed his name, so I looked at his contact card in my inventory and it still showed his original name. I need to remember to check again later to see if it ultimately changes. 

(The name changes do seem to generally be taking effect very quickly after the requests are made, or so I've heard from one of my alts.)

[Arduenn Schwartzman]

Not who, but what.

 

[Amina Sopwith]

1 hour ago, kali Wylder said:

You mean it's not See Cher?

I really don't know why I read it as a soft "ch", but I did. It'll take a while to adjust my inner voice.