Something like this:

Subject: Something like this:
Author: Autumn_68
Posted on: 2013-12-13 02:37:00 UTC

http://www.layoverguide.com/2012/02/singapore-layover.html/singapore-skyline

That's the "City". Technically, the entire island is a city, but that's the "financial area", where all the banks, the offices, the big, tall buildings are located, so it's the City.

Ah yes, same with the ships from the past. The ships, when on a long voyage (e.g. England to China. Or something like that.), stop at Singapore for fuel and provisions, and come down to trade. They still do, so now if you look out at the sea, you see the shore of Indonesia/Malaysia, and many, many ships. They do that with the planes now, too.

Ah...I'm guessing you were stuck in Terminal 2. Terminal 3 is much nicer, newer, shinier (ooooh), and prettier. There's a Butterfly Garden, a 5-storey slide, a cinema, lots of branded goods, indoor greenery, natural light, etc. Sometimes they'd built something fun for Christmas too. Like this year, they built Spongebob's pineapple that plays "Jingle Bells" in French once every hour. You can go into the log cabin/pineapple, redeem something from a booth outside, or take pictures.

I thought it was an improvement from last year's Angry Birds.

Ah well, enough of my rambling. Visit sometime! (if you can)

~Autumn

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Boarder Names, Act II by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-10 20:58:00 UTC Reply

Hello, PPC!

Given that there have been quite a few new people since this question was first posed, I want to ask the entire Board: What is the story behind your username? (I originally wanted to ask because certain oldbies' usernames intrigued me, but alas! as I was typing this, I decided to take a closer look at the original thread, and guess what I should find!)

Since there has been a thread on this very topic before (hence why I've called this "Act II"), and that some Boarders have explained their usernames elsewhere, please feel free to link back to that post if you're one of those people and do not care to retype your story.

That said, I'll ask again: what's the story behind your username?

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Of course, since I asked, I should begin with the story of my username. It traces back to neopets.com; when I first created my account, I did not want to use my usual username. At the time, I wanted my username to reflect on my Christian faith. Though sonofgod would make sense for reasons that might not be so obvious , it just would not do for reasons that should be obvious. So I decided to change it to sonofheaven.

The number is of no significance; it just so happened that someone had already taken the handle sonofheaven, so Neopets recommended some alternates. Thus my username became sonofheaven176, and it is now one of three handles I go by on the Internet.
However, with seven being a favorite number of mine (an oddity, since the sevens were one of my weakest times tables!), it is quite a happy coincidence that the digital sum of 176 is 14, which is twice seven!

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Re: Boarder Names, Act II by BeautyID on 2013-12-19 04:32:00 UTC Reply

It's a really fascinating story, I was 14 and I was trying to think up the perfect username, so of course I came up with 'Beauty In Disguise'. After a while I started to think it was a bit silly, and I was also sick of typing it out, so I shortened it to BeautyID. Then people started calling me BiD, which someone said made them think of dog food... so there's that.
*shrugs* by thishazeleyeddemon on 2013-12-15 04:25:00 UTC Reply

I honestly don't remember. I think I was browsing the Pit and found a passable author who's name was something like thisblueeyeddemon or something. Yeah, I'm a copycat, but it's been years since I chose that as my mostly default online name so, why feel bad?

"whose," not "who's" (nm) by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-15 04:51:00 UTC Reply

*flinches* by thishazeleyeddemon on 2013-12-15 18:35:00 UTC Reply

Thanks. I don't usually make mistakes like that.

Mine is really boring. by Cassie on 2013-12-14 20:50:00 UTC Reply

It is, simply, my own real name. When I first made my way onto the internet, unsupervised, I couldn't think of a username to introduce myself by on the Board, so I just gave my real name.

I've got variations around the internet, but nothing very extreme.
Ah, the names, again. by Phobos on 2013-12-12 14:51:00 UTC Reply

I already answered this back in the other thread. This time around, I've brought you the quote that first put the name in my head. It is from "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield:

“Answer this, Alexandros. When our countrymen triumph in battle, what is it that defeats the foe?”

The boy responded in the terse Spartan style, “Our steel and our skill.”

“These, yes,” Dienekes corrected him gently, “but something more. It is that.” His gesture led up the slope to the image of Phobos. Fear. Their own fear defeats our enemies. “Now answer. What is the source of fear?” When Alexandros’ reply faltered, Dienekes reached with his hand and touched his own chest and shoulder. “Fear arises from this: the flesh. This,” he declared, “is the factory of fear.”

I'd recommend the book, if you haven't read it. It is quite good.

-Phobos

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So what was the story behind Barid? by VixenMage on 2013-12-12 19:04:00 UTC Reply

(If there was one, I don't remember.)

The story of Barid by Phobos on 2013-12-13 00:25:00 UTC Reply

Barid comes from Barid Bel Medar who is a character from the Wheel of Time series. He is better known as the Forsaken/Chosen Demandred. He was the most mysterious of the lot and, unsurprisingly, my favorite. So, I stole his original name for my first World of Warcraft character. When, eventually, I joined the PPC, I used his name as my own because I didn't really have any other name online at that point.

-Phobos

Direct Translation by Crimson Flight on 2013-12-12 14:45:00 UTC Reply

My surname can be directly translated to Crimson, or Vermilion, both of which are pretty much "bright red", while my given name: 翾, can be translated as "flight".

I like your name! by Autumn_68 on 2013-12-13 02:44:00 UTC Reply

I'm guessing...is it Hong Xuan?

Mine translates to Thousand Wisdom, but I never thought of making it my Board name. Plus, it'll sound too arrogant anyway. :)

Ssssssoooo, where do you come from?

~Autumn

Close, but no cigar by Crimson Flight on 2013-12-13 10:20:00 UTC Reply

Think "ruling dynasty of Ming China" than the colour.

Australia, although my family comes from south of the Yangtze.

Errr... by Autumn_68 on 2013-12-13 13:15:00 UTC Reply

Hong Wu? I'm not too sure about what you said there, the "ruling dynasty of Ming China", considering the Ming Dynasty is a dynasty itself...

And so, I did a little research on the web, found out Emperor "Hong Wu" ruled for a period of time. My knowledge on the history of China dating before the Qing dynasty is very limited. Which means my entire knowledge of the history of China is very limited. I'm generally more familiar with the Qing Dynasty, the 1911 Revolution, the Cultural Revolution, and its aftermath.

~Autumn

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Let's see... by Pretzel on 2013-12-12 08:37:00 UTC Reply

My username came about after I decided I wanted something relatively unique to use on message boards and so on. I tend to use it and a variant (steampunk_pretzel) as usernames, but as an online nickname/handle, I usually go with 'Owl', as I've always loved owls, particularly barn owls. Not the most epic of stories, but that's how it goes. Funnily enough, I can't stand most pretzels; the yeasty taste throws me right off.

So... you're Pretzowl? (nm) by Huinesoron on 2013-12-12 13:59:00 UTC Reply

Something like that I suppose! ;) (nm) by Pretzel on 2013-12-12 19:26:00 UTC Reply

I'm boring - it's just an anagram of my name. by Ekyl on 2013-12-11 22:31:00 UTC Reply

Originally I was on this community with basically my real name, but I changed it up for security stuff. Basically, I try to keep all my online stuff separate from each other and there was a lot of overlap building up.
Pretty self-explanatory. by hermione of vulcan on 2013-12-11 21:52:00 UTC Reply

I was very much Hermione when I was a little kid - brown haired, slightly arrogant bookworm with good intentions. Honestly, I'm the same way now, but without the straight A's. But obviously just Hermione would be taken, and it felt incomplete anyway. So my Star Trek obsession filled in the rest. I'm not really all that stoic, though.

Fun fact, though - if I'd created my online username earlier, it would probably be Dorothy something. Like the Wizard of Oz. It was my first fandom, and even now you don't want to get me started on Oz because I'll never shut up about how awesome it is and how everyone needs to read the books.(Seriously, read the books.)
The history of a name by Storme Hawk on 2013-12-11 21:24:00 UTC Reply

Storme Hawk is the latest (and third-most permanent) name I've used on the internet.
The journey truly begins about 5 years ago, when I first started creating internet accounts and I'd go by the name of Thorn94, Thorn having been the name of the hero in a piece of creative writing that remains to this day one of two bits of work I've ever got an A* in (the other was an RE essay) despite me being overall, a mathematician. That piece of writing was also the start of me trying to write a book/piece of original fiction that is still in work today (see Agent Apollo and my permission piece for proof). 94, because well it's year I was born in.
From there I shortened it to Thorn shortly before expanding it to Thorne, something I still use today on a couple of sites (Pokemon Online being the most used).
When I got Steam and hence worked my way into the gaming community I wanted a new username, and Pulse Eagle was born, birds of prey have always been a fascination of mine and I'd recent begun playing Warhammer 40k as the T'au, their basic weapon being a Pulse Rifle. So there are probably still records on TF2, Dawn of War, BF1942 and a small collection of other games of Pulse Eagle. After about a year I liked the structure of my name but agreed with my best friend that it didn't quite sound right (which sounds weird but we both agreed that it could be better), Whilst trying to come up with a new name I went back to using Thorne on Steam and continuing to use Pulse Eagle elsewhere. I came up with Hawk pretty quickly, following the bird of prey theme and realizing that Owl just wouldn't fit and Hawks are my third favorite type of bird (Eagle's being second). The first part of my name I wanted to be something fast, so I tried various things before I thought of Lightning and from there Storm. Why did I want it to be something fast? because I wanted my name to be a literal description of me, especially in strategy and FPS games, I hit hard, hit fast and get the **** out of there before anyone can realize what hit them, so I needed my name to be quick, strong and potentially deadly something both a Storm and a Hawk can be.
I added the 'e' to Storm shortly after I got to Uni, having joined the uni's gaming society I obviously started to play games with them both inside and outside the club hours, however if you look on Steam for StormHawk, well let's say there's a lot of results and even having a picture of Genghis Khan as your image (long story) doesn't help. However, look up StormeHawk and there's one hell of a lot less people who share the name.

BTW, I did not intentionally name myself after a children's cartoon series called Storm-Hawks that I watched as a kid, I only realized it afterwards (although it may be another reason why I added the 'e')

Storme Hawk
the guy who probably wrote WAY too much, but hey.

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Rather simple, actually. by Legacy on 2013-12-11 20:47:00 UTC Reply

I just wrote down a list of possible names and picked my favorite, which happened to be Legacy.

Jesus is Lord. :)

He is Lord indeed. (nm) by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-11 21:30:00 UTC Reply

It's a song ... by EileenAlphabet on 2013-12-11 17:22:00 UTC Reply

... by a Danish band called Sort Sol, who are very well known here, but not in the rest of the world. I couldn't even find it on Youtube or find the lyrics.
Anyway, the song doesn't have any special meaning for me, but it's a nice upbeat song with some cool lyrics and I started using it as my username in various places, because it was always free. So when I joined the PPC it was the natural choice.
I mean for my handle to be a free-use character in the PPC. by darklordaakmal on 2013-12-11 15:03:00 UTC Reply

But I forgot to continue and now it's just a dormant idea.
A long time ago... by LightDarkPheonix on 2013-12-11 14:30:00 UTC Reply

Ok, maybe not so long time ago (like, four years) I was obsessed with the meaning of the Phoenix animal, a bird that rises from the ashes of it's old-self.
I was pretty badly bullied, so I liked to imagine myself as a Phoenix risen from my constantly kicked around old self. Of course, I was also ten so I misspelled it on my original ff.net user "A Pheonix Rises Inside of ME" (caps included) where I then posted a really, really bad series of House fics. I wrote one good poem which I then ruined by writing subsequent chapters. Those were then deleted into oblivion, after thankfully not having been read by anyone. Now I have an eclectic collection of Sherlock fics and omegle RPs posted.

Wow... by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-11 21:16:00 UTC Reply

Sorry to hear about that, but I'm glad that you were able to rise above it.

BTW: Please be more careful not to confuse "its" and "it's."

Me? Well... by Sevenswans on 2013-12-11 14:27:00 UTC Reply

When I first came to the board I was unsure how much I wanted people who knew me by my other two net handles to be able to trace me to sporkings. Because I used to worry about stuff like that. Also because I used to think that I'd get permission in three months and then spork all the things... which, due to my course schedule and the fact that I now know that my usual writing style is quite different from the usual PPC antics (hooray for self-awareness!) didn't exactly happen.

Long story short, I'd been reading fairy tales for work on some original fiction of mine, and the last one I'd read and seen analyzed was the one where the little sister has to save all seven (sometimes nine, but I like alliteration) of her brothers who were turned into swans.

Also, Seven Swans a swimming... it will get quite confusing if we get anyone named Sixgeese in the future.

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Mine is pretty obvious by KittyEden on 2013-12-11 11:44:00 UTC Reply

It is my name, although I changed my last name slightly.

Wait... by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-11 21:04:00 UTC Reply

So your actual first name is "Kitty"?

Yup. I know it's a bit odd. (nm) by KittyEden on 2013-12-12 11:56:00 UTC Reply

Well, I covered it once... by Huinesoron on 2013-12-11 10:16:00 UTC Reply

...here, so I won't repeat that. Instead, I might as well put in some more detail!

I have to assume I pulled the two component words - 'huine' and 'soron' - from the end of The Silmarillion, since the name predates my possession of The History of Middle-earth and my knowledge of the awesome Ardalambion. 'Soron/thoron' would definitely be in there - it's part of the name of the Lord of Eagles - but I don't know where 'huine' is in Silm. Rather distressingly, Ardalambion suggests that the term was associated with Sauron's coming to Numenor - so that's fun.

Interestingly, the alternate form of 'huine' is 'fuine', which is apparently Telerin rather than Noldorin Quenya. The older form of 'soron' is 'thoron' (this change was resisted by Feanor). So it's just as valid to use the form 'Fuinethoron' - though I don't think it's as nice.

(As to what the Telerin for 'eagle' would be - I'm not that good of an etymologist, but Ardalambion suggests 'Thoron' may well be the Primitive Eldarin for 'eagle', so this suggests it might be 'foron' - which gives 'Fuineforon', which is just embarassing)

hS (or fTh, or fF... let's stick with hS)

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*groans* Please explain to me why I was able to follow that. by DawnFire on 2013-12-11 18:29:00 UTC Reply

Oh, that's right--I've spent so long with Tolkien's languages that I actually understand what you're talking about. I don't know whether to headdesk or grin proudly.

Although I agree with the Irish Samurai (okay, what exactly do I nickname him...hm)--Mortic's 'Hunnysoron' works fairly well--

Oh dear. Remember that story I was writing for the Badfic Game before I ran out of time and energy and so on? The one with Agent hS as a villain? Well...my brain may have just more or less guaranteed that someone will call him 'Hunnysoron' at some point.

...behold my writing process:

1. Crazy idea acquired!
2. Keep it? Y/N-->Y!
3. ~~Profit!~~ Write!

Very logical, huh?

~DF

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If we're talking variations on your name... by the Irish Samurai on 2013-12-11 13:40:00 UTC Reply

...I think that Mortic's 'Hunnysoron' has more chance of sticking than any of those others :)

Ehhhhhh... by Autumn_68 on 2013-12-11 06:20:00 UTC Reply

My name? Oh glod. *runs fingers through hair* I have no idea why I chose this name out of others. But I can give you a vague idea of how I pieced together "Autumn68".

1)"Autumn" Weeeeeeeeeeell, autumn's my favourite season, and it also sounds good as a name. Completely random pick, other than that.

2)"" The underscore serves as division between "Autumn" and "68". Thought it looks better than "Autumn68"

2)"68" 68 is derived from 628, a number that means quite a lot to me. 628 is not only the date of my mum's birthday (28 June), but it also means something about luck in Cantonese (Chinese dialect). However, I thought "Autumn_628" sounded too long, so I chose the two numbers than means most to me: "6", my favourite number, and "8", the Chinese's lucky number.

So there you have it; how I picked my name.

~Autumn

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So...are you Chinese? by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-11 23:22:00 UTC Reply

Given your reasoning behind the number, it looks like you are Chinese. Am I right?

Ah, yes. by Autumn_68 on 2013-12-12 00:54:00 UTC Reply

But where I come from, we speak heavily accented (if not, broken) English all the time. I do speak Chinese and Chinese dialect at home, however.

~Autumn

And where do you come from? by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-12 01:13:00 UTC Reply

And which type of Chinese do you speak? I'm guessing Cantonese, since that's the dialect you mentioned in your post.

A history lesson. by Autumn_68 on 2013-12-12 08:09:00 UTC Reply

Um...for the Chinese part, I don't actually speak Cantonese, though my family and my maternal grandparents do. I never seem to pick it up even when I come from a Cantonese-speaking family, though I can understand it perfectly well. Okay, we don't speak Cantonese all the time. It's more of a mixture of Cantonese, Chinese, and English. With a few Malay, Hokkien and Indian words thrown in as well. So you can see how much we butcher the languages. ;) I can speak fluent Chinese though.

For your first question, I come from Singapore, a British settlement from 1826-1963, so everyone speaks English here (some of the Chinese citizens are even brought up speaking English). At first there was only the Malay fishermen on our island, but Stanford Raffles found it and thought,"Hey! This will make a great port for trading ships!" And so, modern Singapore was founded.

Singapore then became a huge British trading post, where merchants from all over the world came here to trade. So steadily, the Chinese merchants started piling into Singapore, plus the people who escaped China during the Qing dynasty and World War II, until Singapore was mostly populated with the Chinese. Our national language is still Malay though, and even though a lot of us (like me) aren't fluent in Malay, our National Anthem is in Malay.

So...sorry for the history lesson, I didn't actually meant for it to be so long, just a brief flash on my country's history, but I got carried away, so...

Oh, and happy birthday, as I say once again!

~Autumn

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Ooh Singapore... by Storme Hawk on 2013-12-12 10:05:00 UTC Reply

...Always wondered what it looks like outside of the airport.

To clarify the above statement I've only ever been in Singapore twice, both times as a stop between England and Borneo, the first was a half hour rush to the plane, the second was a long 9 hours stuck in one terminal of the airport, and it wasn't even the entertainment one (or the one with the massive waterslide) :( . On the plus side I can now say I've been in a Hard Rock Cafe.

Storme Hawk

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Something like this: by Autumn_68 on 2013-12-13 02:37:00 UTC Reply

http://www.layoverguide.com/2012/02/singapore-layover.html/singapore-skyline

That's the "City". Technically, the entire island is a city, but that's the "financial area", where all the banks, the offices, the big, tall buildings are located, so it's the City.

Ah yes, same with the ships from the past. The ships, when on a long voyage (e.g. England to China. Or something like that.), stop at Singapore for fuel and provisions, and come down to trade. They still do, so now if you look out at the sea, you see the shore of Indonesia/Malaysia, and many, many ships. They do that with the planes now, too.

Ah...I'm guessing you were stuck in Terminal 2. Terminal 3 is much nicer, newer, shinier (ooooh), and prettier. There's a Butterfly Garden, a 5-storey slide, a cinema, lots of branded goods, indoor greenery, natural light, etc. Sometimes they'd built something fun for Christmas too. Like this year, they built Spongebob's pineapple that plays "Jingle Bells" in French once every hour. You can go into the log cabin/pineapple, redeem something from a booth outside, or take pictures.

I thought it was an improvement from last year's Angry Birds.

Ah well, enough of my rambling. Visit sometime! (if you can)

~Autumn

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Wow and Dang it. by Storme Hawk on 2013-12-13 16:37:00 UTC Reply

Wow, because, well that skyline looks pretty nice

and Dang it cos I was in Terminal 3, a few of us went into the butterfly gardens and almost bought out one of the butterfly's which was hiding on one of our daysacks. I remember the branded goods and the large amount of shops though.

May do, I'd like to go back to Borneo again, especially Mantanani Island, SCUBA diving off of there and seeing turtles was AMAZING!

Don't worry I ramble too
Storme Hawk

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" Technically, the entire island is a city" by Huinesoron on 2013-12-13 07:59:00 UTC Reply

So, what you're saying is...

... Singapore is basically Coruscant?

hS

About that... by Autumn_68 on 2013-12-13 09:32:00 UTC Reply

well...not exactly. Not as city-dense as Coruscant anyway. There are a few patches tropical rainforests here and there, and a couple of forested islets, but other than that, most places in Singapore is inhabited by people. But I guess I shouldn't have put "technically" in front of the sentence.

The beach is a park, behind the park is a highway, behind the highway are residential buildings. And the government has already reclaimed quite a lot of land, and where my house stands used to be the shore.

So you get the idea. Most of Singapore is a city. :)

~Autumn

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If it weren't already obvious... by Fasoula on 2013-12-11 05:11:00 UTC Reply

Fasoula is a (almost) phonetic mishmash of the second set of three syllables from solfège. I chose it over my old "Matthew72" handle as I was never quite fond of the nickname-number combo. "Fasoula" is leftover from a relatively recent infatuation with and envisioned talent for music. This notion lasted for all of three months, and I have learned nothing more about music for it! But the name stuck with me, as with its sister "Doureimi" (which didn't seem quite as suitable). This is mainly due, I think, to my huge soft spot for bizarre and silly names!
A long story... by Valiril Erquentien on 2013-12-11 03:35:00 UTC Reply

My father thought my name meant Divine Queen, so I went by that meaning when I entered Tolkien phase. I translated it and changed the Queen to Lady, because I thought addressing myself as Queen was too arrogant. Erquentien just means Daugther of Sam. Sam is Erquent, One's Word, because I wasn't going to put Eruquent or something so disrespectful.

Thank you for the respect. ;) by Huinesoron on 2013-12-11 10:02:00 UTC Reply

It's amazing how many people will use the name of the One constantly, despite the canonical statements that the Eldar (and Numenoreans) only spoke it on extremely rare special occasions. I guess it's because 'Iluvatar' sounds rather more impressive than 'Eru', so people assume it's the one to be avoided.

(This actually raises the question of whether 'Eru' is the actual Name, or just another way of avoiding saying it. However, given the opening of the Ainulindale reads 'There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar', I think we have to conclude that 'Eru' is the actual name)

hS

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Names and stuff by Desdendelle on 2013-12-11 19:57:00 UTC Reply

... That makes them rather similar to practising Jews, in that respect: saying the name of God (YHVH, that's Yod-Vav-Heh-Vav) is prohibited. Saying 'Elohim' (which roughly translates to God, but actually means 'gods') or writing the contration ה' (Heh) is frowned upon, so Haredi Jews say 'Elokim' and write ד' (Dalet) instead.
That said... what's the Sindarin version of your name, hS?

Sorry to presume to know better than an Israeli by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-11 23:56:00 UTC Reply

but aren't the letters Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh? You wrote "Yod-Vav-Heh-Vav"

Woops. by Desdendelle on 2013-12-12 20:04:00 UTC Reply

Quite right, you are, but that's the best you'll get from a pointedly non-practicing agnostic like me.
/Lame Excuse
Re: Sorry to presume to know better than an Israeli by DawnFire on 2013-12-12 02:55:00 UTC Reply

You would be correct--I'm guessing Des was a little tired when he made that post. (Mind you, I'd transliterate 'yod' a bit differently--as 'yud', which doesn't actually convey the proper sound much better, to be fair...)

Another thing is that, according to tradition, the Tetragrammaton (okay, okay, sorry, it's just, I learned that in my fancy uni course and I had to use it--okay), that is, the YHVH...well, pronouncing it properly is a very powerful thing to do. Also, the correct pronunciation has been lost. Just a bit more insight into that.

And yes, it really is called the Tetragrammaton by scholars. I swear.

~DF

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No need to be worried by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-12 03:26:00 UTC Reply

As a lover of the Bible, I happen to be familiar with the term "Tetragrammaton," which comes from Greek.

I didn't learn it until this year... by DawnFire on 2013-12-12 03:35:00 UTC Reply

...although that makes sense, seeing as I normally do my Torah study in, well, Hebrew. I actually sat next to someone reading...it must have been the New Testament...on the bus, and was kind of weirded out by the fact that it was *entirely in English*.

...lookit me, I'm *sheltered*.

/walks off laughing hysterically/

(But seriously, I'm so used to seeing the Hebrew and English side-by-side that a full-English Bible of any sort looks strange to me. It's kind of amusing, actually...at least, to me it is.)

~DF

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Wait a second! by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-12 04:13:00 UTC Reply

Unless I am mistaken, you're part Canadian.
*looks through the posts in "The World of PPC"*
There it is: you're American, just born in Canada! So, how long have you been living in Israel that an English Bible seems odd to you?

I'm very sorry, but I find this hilarious. by DawnFire on 2013-12-12 04:35:00 UTC Reply

Really, I do. Mostly because it's a wee bit mistaken, and the mistakes are amusing me. This is not your fault at all, though--you don't have the background knowledge, which I shall now clarify...

Basically, yes, I'm from those three countries. However, um, America's actually the country I've spent the least amount of time in--I lived there for all of two years, right before moving to Canada. So I was born in Canada, lived in Israel for just under a decade, moved to America for two years, and have now been in Canada for approximately a decade. And I spent the last year in Israel, which was awesome.

On the other hand...the Bible thing isn't actually related to living in Israel. My encounters with Bible (using that as a simplifying term, since otherwise I'm going into Torah, Tanach, and half a dozen other things--at least if I say 'Bible', everyone knows what I mean...*refrains from going on about why a Bible is called a Bible*) when I lived there were more in the form of children's versions of some of the stories, until last year...okay, it's slightly connected. Most of the Bibles I saw last year were purely in Hebrew, except for the one I brought with me (it was recommended for the program I did) and the ones that the other girls from abroad brought with them.

Mostly, however, it's just that the Jewish Day Schools I've attended in Canada have taught any Bible--oh, blast it, Tanach--classes in Hebrew. All my textbooks for those classes were pure Hebrew; I didn't even own a purely English translation until it was required for a class I took in high school (at home we have it with the Hebrew and English side by side). So, you see, it's not that I've been living in Israel so long that an English Bible seems odd to me--it's that I didn't have a purely English edition at home until, oh, grade 10 or 11 (or maybe 9, I don't know), and that every Tanach class I ever took in school was taught in Hebrew and with a Hebrew text. So I'm just much more used to seeing only the Hebrew, or to seeing the Hebrew and the English side by side.

And that's why it was really weird for me to glance over at what that woman on the bus was reading and find that not only was it about Jesus--she was reading one of the gospels, I think--it was also completely in English. And I caught myself looking around for the Hebrew before realizing that while I'm pretty sure the original is in Aramaic or Greek or another language that isn't coming to mind right now, it certainly wouldn't be common practice to put it in. And I don't think I'd ever actually considered that before--I mean, you hear about people using the King James translation, or something, and I used to see Gideon bibles in hotel rooms sometimes, but...I don't think I had really properly considered it properly before.

And on that note, I really hope you don't mind getting long answers, because that happens rather a lot when people talk to me--especially if they get me talking about my own experiences or about something else that I really care about and/or know a lot about. So...yes. Hope this clears things up...and, uh, get used to long answers if you keep having conversations with me, I guess :)

~DF

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Don't worry about giving long answers. by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-12 06:07:00 UTC Reply

One can learn a lot from long stories; sometimes the answerer actually anticipates a question that the questioner would otherwise have asked.

And in actuality, it would be weird to see someone with a New Testament in both English and Greek (the New Testament was originally written in Greek). In fact, if you see any Greek, it's either purely Greek or an "interlinear," that is, the Greek text with English words under the Greek ones. (Here's an example of what an interlinear looks like.) If you find someone reading from a Greek New Testament, then it's a good bet that that person is studying to be a pastor. Otherwise, that person might just be someone weird like me, who actually is interested in ancient languages (recall that I took classes in both Latin and Greek).

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I imagine that's deliberate. by Huinesoron on 2013-12-11 20:57:00 UTC Reply

It's exactly the sort of thing Tolkien would have done, after all, drawing on real-world mythology* to build his secondary world.

Argh, Sindarin, you had to, didn't you? Well, 'thoron' is still 'eagle', so at least that doesn't change. And, wonder of wonders, there is actually a direct cognate of 'huine' in Sindarin - it's the 'fuin' in 'Taur-na-Fuin' (Forest under Nightshade, or Mirkwood - originally Dorthonion after the Sudden Flame, but I think it was also applied to Greenwood later).

Grammatically, the adjective should follow the noun, so it would be Thoronfuin ('f' isn't affected by soft mutation); however, grammar is boring, so let's go with Fuinthoron ('th' is similarly unmutated).

fTh

*'Mythology' is not used to state either truth or falsehood of any given set of beliefs kthnxbye.

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Yes, I had to. by Desdendelle on 2013-12-11 21:56:00 UTC Reply

I like the way Sindarin sounds. Probably because it's somewhat based on Welsh.
Though I think I'll stick with calling you Huinesoron, which sounds better.
Or hS when I'm lazy.

Ah,you see... by Kittythekatty on 2013-12-11 01:45:00 UTC Reply

I do like cats a lot. In drama class, we were required to do an animal impersonation and I meowed like a cat for about half of the class period. Ever since then, I have received the nickname "Kat".
I chose Kittythekatty because I wanted to be a kat, but not any. I am a KittyKat. Or Kittythekatty.
Weeeeelllll... by Ailavyn Siniyash on 2013-12-11 01:21:00 UTC Reply

See, I used to go by Starpetal, but then I got tired of that, and, since I hadn't really started making accounts until then, I was perfectly able to change my handle. I picked Ailavyn Siniyash out of my language that I'm idly making (though I feel like I really should restart it, or something, because it's going nowhere except places I'm not sure about ---that is, boring and trite, as much as a fictional language can be---) It means Light's Daughter, which, looking back, is incredibly pretentious, and I sort of wish I could change it. Maybe I'll just change the meaning of siniyash to something other than daughter... Yeah, that sounds more plausible...

...As for Aila, well, it's a very long handle. I needed a nickname.

-Aila

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Have I actually never explained this? by DawnFire on 2013-12-11 01:21:00 UTC Reply

Hm, maybe not on the Board. Oh well.

Basically, my friend and I used to be really into the Warriors books--you know, the ones with the cats. They were pretty good, actually. Anyway, one day we played a game that ended up giving us two names--Brightshadow and Dawnfire (funnily enough, I was Dawnfire. I was also in ShadowClan, I think.*) Soon after that, I ended up needing a screenname, so I started using Brightshadow (I don't remember everywhere I used it, but I definitely commented on Deleterius once or twice under that name). At a slightly later point, I needed another screenname for some reason, so I chose Dawnfire...and wrote it as DawnFire for some reason. And that's the story.

You may also have noticed that my wiki handle is DawnFire360 (and that that's also in the email I give for beta-ing). Why 360? Very simply, I'd recently been dealing with geometry in school, and no one else had taken the username. So...DawnFire360.

Of course, now my name seems to be heading more towards simply Dawn, which I'm okay with (not least because I keep having moments where I feel that DawnFire is a little childish. I have been using it for at least seven years, though, so...makes sense :) I don't have any plans to change it, though--too confusing...although I suppose I could take a hint from hS, and translate it into Quenya or Sindarin, or take a hint from Neshomeh, and translate it into Yiddish. Although the Yiddish isn't looking very exciting or English-friendly...I suppose I could be ShacharEsh--the Hebrew--but it looks kind of odd. I think I'll just stick to DawnFire.)

And, with that bit of storytelling/rambling completed...peace out, guys :)

~DF

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*My memory is apparently very bad right now. I'm fairly sure I was actually Brightshadow, from ThunderClan. Makes a lot more sense, as I wrote that parenthetical statement feeling that it was rather ironic.

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Well, I explained it last time... by Herr Wozzeck on 2013-12-11 01:13:00 UTC Reply

...but this time? I'll go ahead and link to the opera itself. So here it is, guys. It's a scene from my namesake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcVAAyP7Vhw

I know that you've explained it twice by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-11 01:56:00 UTC Reply

so I apologize for asking, but could you please give a bit more detail? Namely, why did you choose that username? Was it simply because you were a fan of that opera, or did you find a sort of affinity with the titular character?

I was a total fan of the opera. by Herr Wozzeck on 2013-12-11 02:15:00 UTC Reply

Berg was a friggin' musical genius, and it shows most of all in his musical treatment of the subject.

Thanks. by son_of_heaven176 on 2013-12-11 02:26:00 UTC Reply

And in hindsight, I could have been a bit more specific in my previous subject, since if you went in so much detail twice, then I would not have needed to ask. By "it," I meant the general background behind your username.

Gather 'round... by 99Hedgehog on 2013-12-10 22:47:00 UTC Reply

Back in '08, I really wanted this game called Spore (just search it up) and got it on its day of release. After a few weeks if playing singleplayer, I wanted to sign up for online. Since I was obsessed with Sonic, I tried "Hedgehog" as my username but it didn't work so I put "99" in front of it and that has been my online handle ever since.

I also discovered the Internet in general through a group of RPers (THE Spore RPers), since my interactions with it were minimal at best.

The Emperor Protects!

P.S Spore is dead, I left it a while back.

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You were a Sporumer? by Sevenswans on 2013-12-11 14:34:00 UTC Reply

I wasn't myself, but I can tell you something awesome.

Svenolutions still exists, under a different name and different moderators, here. I'm actually a moderator, though rather intermittently due to school and health issues. I'm not 100% up to date on the current progress of the actual game (I'm the science officer/lady queen of biomes, chemistry, and translations, and can't program my way out of a paper bag) but the spiritual successor of Spore still lives, with a greater focus on actual evolution.

/shameless promotion of Thrive, AKA the game that we will finish sometime this decade.

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I didn't hang around the Sporum... by 99Hedgehog on 2013-12-11 22:10:00 UTC Reply

...I hung around Sporepedia & the official website. We RPed with creations.

The Emperor Protects!

Well by Green Armada on 2013-12-10 21:54:00 UTC Reply

I just liked the word "Armada", and since I usually put some sort of adjective before nouns when it comes to names, I choose "Green" (because it sounded better than other colors and because I like green).
Well, I explained it a few places... by World-Jumper on 2013-12-10 21:20:00 UTC Reply

...but I might as well say it again.

My name comes from a character I was, and still am, writing when I first found the PPC: Jumper. I created him out of a mixture of wanting a character that could travel to fictional worlds, and and wanting to prove that such characters could be written well. Unfortunately, the first incarnation of Jumper was very much a Stu. Just take a look at Jumping In to see why. When I found the PPC, I was looking for multiverse-spanning organizations on TV Tropes and found the PPC entry. Because Jumper was the reason I found the PPC, I thought I might as well introduce myself with that name. Ergo, World-Jumper; the guy who keeps talking about ponies insistently and insists he is this close to finishing his mission after 8 months of 'writing.' By the way, first mission, this close to being done!

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Well... by Desdendelle on 2013-12-10 21:13:00 UTC Reply

Since I'm lazy and have nothing to add, I'll just leave a link to my reply to the old thread. And a plate of Belgian pralines.