Whats in your character name?

[Feba]

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P.S. How did you get your name in Japanese? I always wanted to see how mine is.

there are basically two ways to get a name in Japanese. the common way is to just put it in katakana, then there is also the less common way of translating the meaning of the name into Japanese.

I'm not sure what Alexius means, but in katakana it would probably be something close to A RE KU SU E A SU, although honestly I'm not even totally sure how it's pronounced in English.

[Cyprian]

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My name? umm... I found the name Cyprian while looking through some old medieval names, I liked it, I then developed an Elven character for a fantasy I'm writing. I then accidentally put it in m-w.com dictionary and the results?

Main Entry:cyp·ri·an
Function:noun Usage:often capitalized : prostitute

Yes, my name means prostitute and then while looking through a list of phobias I found that cyprianophobia is fear of prostitutes. :D yay!

[Satimasu]

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I made up my name. Was just thinking of a name, I used a name I made up for a character on PSO (Phantasy Star Online) Satimas. Just added a "u" at the end. Apparently the first part of the name means many things from "pious one" to the names of goddess'. Masu just means a wooden box in Japanese. Little did I know making up a name like that would mean anything. That's probably why I get tells from JP's a lot...

[DakAttack]

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Dak is short, and to the point. It's both strong and flexible.

Dak was taken on Kujata, damn it, so I went with Anhedonia. It sounds cool, but it's actually an inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, and social or sexual interaction. It doesn't apply to me, it just sounds cool.

My real name is Alexius (obvious as hell) (Alexios in Greek) but everyone has been calling me alexander so it's like a clarification. .heh.

P.S. How did you get your name in Japanese? I always wanted to see how mine is.

アレクシウス Alexius

アレクスアンド Alexander

アクセリウス Axelius

[TheGrandMom]

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My game name is TheMom. The story behind it is from way back in the old days of gaming. You didn't get a lot of spaces to use to save your game so I would just put in MOM. Well my son was young and we would play all the time and I would beat him a lot. lol Then his buddies would come over and see all my high scores and harass my son. One day I had a particularly good score in a game that amazed his one buddy and he looked at me and said "She's not mom, she's THEmom." It kinda stuck after that and I started doing my saves as TheMom when I could and it's been my name on the internet since back in the BBS days.

[WishMaster3K]

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I keep forgetting that TGM is old enough to remember wth BBS is.

How's that 14.4k connection working out for ya, gorgeous?

LoL, just kidding. I love you as much as I love Appletalk.

[Jarre]

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Our plotter at work is still connected to a machine running MacOS9 via apple talk, its either that or a slow serial link. one of tehse days we will upgrade, but at a cost of £7000 it'll be a while, ypu I know what appletalk is

[Telera]

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Telera was the name of a character of mine from a very large 'sandbox' style RP set after Episode III of Star Wars and carrying on well toward the NJO. She was a girl identified with Jedi potential at a young age, and taken from her home world of Dathomir.

That's only the origin of the name. I tried to use it, and the backstory to some extent on SWG before it was face raped.

In FFXI, Tel's backstory was that she was a young Acolyte/healer in the service of Altana. Through a long, drawn out series of events covered in a RP linkshell I once had, she found a stone and heard the voice of Carbuncle. Following his directives, she began her journey to become a Summoner. A childhood friend/man she loved (my r/l boyfriend's char, naturally) was lost for a year or two on the journey, and was found by a third character in the RP shell. (Sev's char.) She returned to San d'Oria for a span of time to recover emotionally and spiritually before setting out on her own to defend her country.

We actually got the story pretty far, but Sev *glares* transferred servers and Valdir quit. Soooo... I don't RP anymore. No point. But that's about the jist of her backstory in a short, concise nutshell.

I've googled Telera and come up with a few spanish sites for some kind of bread or pastry, as well as some singers. So apparently it's Spanish, but I had no idea, I just made it up. Haha.

Caeryn is my Tarutaru. Another name I just threw together to the best of my knowledge. The character Ceryn is a young woman I play in a high-fantasy style RP, but to 'soften' it up a little for a Taru, I put an a in there. Caeryn is also the name of my Loremaster on Lord of the Rings: Online.

Aeria is a mithra, and just a mule until such time as I decide to (or not to) make her something. Aeria is the shortened form of Aeriana. Aeriana is a character from a long series of books I've been working on... Aeria is her daughter. :p So she was named after her. And since Aeria's personality is more like what I wanted the FFXI-Aeria's to be, I went with that.

[TheGrandMom]

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I keep forgetting that TGM is old enough to remember wth BBS is.
How's that 14.4k connection working out for ya, gorgeous?
LoL, just kidding. I love you as much as I love Appletalk.

Aaaww don't talk about my old Mac...I miss it so! One of the stupidest things I ever did was trading it in. But then again I'm a pack rat and getting rid of anything is a stupid thing in my book. lol

And hold on there one second "young man"!! You remember Appletalk!!? Hmmm..... /em wonders what Wishmaster's birth certificate says!

[Lunaryn]

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アレクシウス Alexius
アレクスアンド Alexander
アクセリウス Axelius

I'm pretty sure Alexius would transliterate as アレクシアス(arekushiasu), seeing as Japanese phonetics don't really allow for the Ə = any vowel phenomenon... The version above would be a long u (oo) sound (except not long -- same pronunciation, just shorter).

Alexios would be アレクシオス.

I keep forgetting that TGM is old enough to remember wth BBS is.
How's that 14.4k connection working out for ya, gorgeous?
LoL, just kidding. I love you as much as I love Appletalk.

Heh. I still have a 2400 baud modem, though I'm missing the power adaptor. I also miss the Apple ][ series (I had a ][ + a long time ago, wrote programs in Applesoft Basic. Actually learned 6502 assembly after I lost the ][ +, but used it on public school ][ e and //c computers), but I never had a Mac.

[Mhurron]

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Aaaww don't talk about my old Mac...I miss it so! One of the stupidest things I ever did was trading it in.

What model?

The second site where I work has a PowerMac running System 7 just to talk to an AppleTalk only device. I really would like to make it go away.

I also have to come in one weekend to rebuild a file server that some moron decided should run netatalk. What kind of idiot uses AFP between a Linux file server and OS X clients?

AppleTalk and IPX/SPX were nice in the low administrative overhead to set them up, but were way to chatty.

[Prons]

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I've used Prons for everything for the last eight years. It was meant to be "Prawns."

[TheGrandMom]

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What model?

Well my uncle passed me down an Apple II and after playing with that, I got a Macintosh. Of course, there were Tandy's and Commodores, etc but god I loved my A2 and Mac. I suddenly feel so very VERY old. lol
/em goes to make a cup of warm milk and take her vitamins.

[Akashimo]

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Hangman on a Tandy was fun for a while =x

[Jarre]

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I remember the Tandy 88 we had. Playing PGA tour golf on it and Prince of persia (in low res)