Meme time!

[soc_puppet]

Busy afternoon today. Going to try for blood donation again this afternoon at four (crossing my fingers that iron count will be high enough; it should be, seeing as I've been taking my vitamins, but you never know) so I can feel like I've earned my One Gallon stuff. Have a psychologist appointment before that at two. Should have an eensy bit of time to lounge around/check "real" mail between the two, but not a lot. Getting (a good deal of) my 'netting out of the way early.

Anyway, I'm somewhat bored, and this is something I've been wondering for a while, so I'mma start a meme!

How do you pronounce your LiveJournal name (or other online handle)? Do you have a different one you prefer and use more often? If so, how is that pronounced? What do you answer to in real life?

This is basically a "How do I address you verbally?" quiz. Because yeah, that's the kind of question that keeps me up at night when I wonder about actually meeting people ^^a And there's a number of you that I do not only want to meet, but may indeed have an opportunity to do so sometime in the future. So, that's what this is here for! ...That, and there's some names I really wonder about. Anyway, steal if you like, answer if you like, yadda yadda yadda.

For the record: "Soh-chan", or, for the more craftily inclined, "Sew-chan"; I will probably answer to it. I'll also answer to my real name (which I don't usually use online as there are too many of us here, though feel free to ask after it), my French class/confirmation name (Geneviève ("Jen-uh-vee-ev")), and possibly even Soc ("Sock").

Edit: ...I leave for a few hours and come back to thirteen replies. Good God +_+ Uh, for the record, considering from what I derived my handle, I guess pronouncing it "Sock-chan" would work as well? *will get right on replying to those now, rly*

Comments

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* We were just wondering how some people's names are pronounced last night. ^^;; I've always thought of yours as being pronounced as 'So-chan'. #^^#

For the record, I'm just 'Icka'. Generally pronounced 'Ick-ah', but also 'Eee-kah' to some people. (and in some places in New Zealand, 'Ich-er' o_0 )

Some people like suffixes, 'Icka-chan' is fine, so is 'Icka-san', but not 'Icka-sama'.
There's a reason for this. 'Icka-chan' in japanese is the equvlant to 'Squidy', but 'Icka-sama' means 'Funny-business', 'Tom-foolery' or 'Quackery'.
So no Icka-sama. ^_________________^

[kurobahikaru.livejournal.com]

So you're saying you're not involved in any funny business at all? >;D

Fetch.

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

Fetch.

#^_____^#
I say nothing.

[soc_puppet]

For the record, it's indirectly Mati's fault ;) I go to visit her for a few hours, end up talking up a storm, and plotting to drag the entirety of us to a con eventually, at which point either the universe will collapse in on itself, or it will become an irresistable gravitational pull for bishounen of all persuasions. And possibly also bishoujo. ...Anyway, people were mentioned by name, and I thought, "Oh shit, that's not how I mentally pronounce some of those! I'd better double-check before I make a complete ass of myself!" And there you go.

(Yeah, that sounds about right for the accent. Er. Though I hope they didn't go around spelling it Ichor. Or anything.)

So, it's not a formality thing, it's a homonyms thing?
...Figures "funny-business" would be something to do with tentacles.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

...and here I was thinking the translation for "Icka-sama" applies perfectly :D

'Ika-su' means 'Be Groovy'. ^_________^

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

'Ika' (as it would be spelt in the 'kana) can also mean 'under', 'closet' and 'Doctor' as well as 'Squid'.
Take it as you like. #^^#

[atiko.livejournal.com]

Heh. If I had to say it out loud, I'd pronounce it like what Conan always says when addressing Kogoro: "occhan", just with an s in front. ;-)

[soc_puppet]

XD That'd probably work. Someday, I will actually see the anime DD:

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Can-dee-land? :D Any suffix is fine, but most call me Candy-chan ♥ A woman I work with calls me Baby or Girl, and one of my friends calls me Lady *laugh* I also respond to my real first name, Hey You, and Princess ^____^

...I've had a lot of nicknames in my day, haven't I?

[soc_puppet]

XD Yeah, yours was pretty striaghtforward, I thought. But, you know, better safe than sorry. ...And I was probably just gonna go with Candy in the end.

*is Not Mentioning some of her earlier handles lest people do detective work and see the crap she used to write >_>*

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Candy works fine for me! Most people call me Candy-chan online--even a few of my RL friends call me Candy. It's...sort of weird, really, but I answer to it. The best one I've ever gotten was on an ff-dot-net review, when someone called me "Candyland-chan-san" o.O

My real name is also very easy to pronounce...but nobody can spell it right. WHAT IS SO HARD ABOUT SPELLING IT WITH AN -EY, PEOPLE?? HONESTLY!! *is sedated* Ooooh, pretty colors...

...I demand to know these handles so I can do some detective work and read your early masterpieces because I'm a curious little thing like that :D

[soc_puppet]

Most excellent ^_^

Yeah, well, our family doesn't believe in extra letters, so we've gotten into the habit of spelling things for people.

No :< If you want my early crap that badly, I'll copy-paste it somewhere and send it to you. The spelling errors, Duke! The spelling errors!

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I guess it doesn't bother me too much when it's random people...but when it's professors who've had me in class for three years? RAR!!

Weirdest spelling I ever saw was at Taco John's--they take your name and call it when your food's ready. And this person spelled it not with an -ay, not with an -ey, not even with just a -y, but L-I-N-D-S-E-I-G-H. I'm like, "You're making this waaaaaaay too complicated, sir."

*crosses arms and pouts* I wanna read 'em! D:

[soc_puppet]

...Yeeeaaah, that might be a bit much.

XD Well, if it helps 'em remember, then I say, fine!

Okay, fine, I'll do some digging :<<< If you haven't gotten to FF.net already, there's where you can start. If you have, I'll just have to find all of my old *mumble mumble* Gundam Wing *mumble mumble* fics for you. Or at least as many as I can get my hands on. I'm pretty sure all my Pokémon fanfic was lost in my recent room cleaning, though.

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

( Wait, so "socchan" is pronounced "Soh-chan" and not "Sock-chan"? XcD; Geneviève is a nice name though. ^_- )

DagronRat is pretty straight foreward. "Dag" as in the beginning of "Dagger" and "Ron" as in that of "Ronald," unless you are a french speaker then "ro'(n)" as in "rond" (french word for round) is accepted. The Rat is optional, and I will respond to "Dag'" anyway. Most IRL call me by my birthname though.

Happy New Year by the way, and good luck with blood donation!

[jeva-chan.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently I fail because I always thought of your name as "Day-gron" XD;;;

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

"Dag" does means "Day" (or was it "daylight") in Dutch~ :D
*knows because has a pendant that says so :3*

Maybe it's not so far off. heh~ ^_^-
*so no fail + fun titbit ;c) *hug* *

[soc_puppet]

(Well, uh, that's how I always mentally pronounced it? *edits post* Thanks ^_^v My French teacher also approved.)

Yeah, that's about how I pronounced it mentally. Good to have confirmation, though. Plus, possible nickname! One sylable = good :D

Thanks, you too ^__^ Alas, I did not make iron count ;_; I was off by six percent this time. *headdesk*

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Heh; thanks for the opportunity to do this, because my name gets pronounced in a LOT of odd ways, which is sort of weird considering how short it is. But it's 'YIZ-ah-bet'. Hard "Y", as in 'yeah' or 'yes' or 'Yacko', accent on the 'Yiz'. Hard "T" on the end, too; every now and then somebody tries to pronounce it as 'Isabeau' for reasons unknown. **raises Welsh red-dragon banner** I am not French! ^__^

[soc_puppet]

Okay, that definitely helps. I was mentally pronouncing it with a long E sound in the front instead of the hard Y. Will fix now! *salutes* *wonders if she should've given you the Welsh flag instead*

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

**grin** Everybody pronounces it wrong; I have friends (**glances at Morgan shiftily**) who've known me for years and years who pronounce it wrong. The thing is, there are variants of 'Elizabeth' damn near *everywhere*, so there are lots of ways to say/spell it. Can't find a Japanese equivalent, though, which is probably all that's keeping me from developing an alternate persona in the SCA.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

And I always pronounced it Isabet... *sheepish* I agolopize ^^;;

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

No biggee, I promise!

[jeva-chan.livejournal.com]

... I always pronounce your Soccahn as "sock-chan" :D;;;

And for me Jeva is like "jeh-vah" or "jehv-ah". Either way. And uh yeah :D;;;

[jeva-chan.livejournal.com]

And if you want to get REALLY hard: Jevana = Jeh-vah-nah or Jehv-ah-nah.

... oooooooh. O:

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

...too complicated for me XD

[soc_puppet]

Feel free to call me "sock" if you like ;)

Sounds about like what I expected for you, too. *relieved*

[lyzzle.livejournal.com]

Mine is pretty much pronounced how it looks. It used to be just _lyzz, which is pronounced like Liz. Then I changed it to lyzzle just out of the blue, don't know why. It rhymes with shizzle. Lyzzle fo' shizzle. Which just happens to be engraved on the back of my iPod nano. :D Someone once told me my nickname Lyz (before I added the second z) looked like it was pronounced 'lies'. I think the second z makes it clearer.

For the record, my first LJ was lyzzyness, but PLEASE don't look at it. I do not associate with it anymore. >>;

In real life, I get called:
Lyndsey (my real name)
Lyzz
Lyzzle
Lyzzizzle
Lyzz-kohai
Izzy (<- Story here. I used to have a Yahoo account where my username was invaderzzy, based on the Irken Invaders from Invader Zim and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac's nickname Nny. My friend Justin was basically the only person I talked to on there, and somehow he got around to calling me Izzy. I rather like it. ^^)

I pretty much knew yours was pronounced Soh-chan. ;D

[soc_puppet]

XD I won't look at your old LJ, I promise. ...You didn't have to tell me what it was, though. I didn't mention any of my old screennames.

Joyness :D

[lyzzle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. I just thought it would contribute to the demonstration of my astounding uncreativity. Also, I was hyper and rather talkative at the time.

[soc_puppet]

XD Hyperness can explain away much of the universe.

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

Hey, I pronounced your name right in my head! XD

Mine, well, it's em-es-be-be-tee. XDD Or Kaito. But I'm sure you can say that ^^

[jeva-chan.livejournal.com]

m's'bbit! :D!

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

XDDDD *hearts;

You know, I pronounce it like that in my head sometimes... Like I like to mispronounce my last name outloud when I'm spelling it sometimes, hee hee. *has a crazy German name*

[soc_puppet]

*celebrates* *with confetti!*

...I must be at least a little lysdexic, because for some reason, another S keeps trying to replace the first B in my mind >_< I'll do my best to fix that. And yeah, I'm fairly practiced with saying Kaito ;)

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Easy way to remember her handle: Miroku Sango Beast Boy Terra. OTPs FOR THE WIN! *is shot by best friend*

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

*shoots you because you asked me to*

[soc_puppet]

That does make it easier, actually.

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

...I was going to say it stands for stuff, but apparently Candy-chan beat me to that! -_- *shoots her cause she asked me to*

You know, a lot of people think it's mssbt for some reason and it makes me laugh XD. Although I honestly think it's a little childish now, but it's all I could think of when I was setting this up ^^;. Using my two big OTPs at the time. I'm still really obsessed with both, but... vowels are my friends XD.

[soc_puppet]

Hey, works for me.

Trust me, there are worse ways of coming up with a screen name. Though yeah, vowels = helpful most of the time.

[websofseaweed.livejournal.com]

I hope your blood donating and psychologist appointment went well!! And...call me Bandou-kun. 8D

[soc_puppet]

Blood donation did not go as well as I hoped, sadly :( Iron count was low. Note to self: learn about inhibitors. Psychologist appointment went fairly well, though.

That I shall do, Bandou-kun 8D *uses 8D icon*

[op-longshot.livejournal.com]

OOH I WANNA STEAL THIS ONE :D

Let's see. Op, as short for "operation". And longshot, well, should be easy.

Daniel Hawking... should also be easy. XD

Nadixel... Na-dee-shel.

Man, I'm bored. XD;

[soc_puppet]

I hereby enable you to steal it then!

Oh, is that how it is? I always treated them like innitials. O.P. and all that. Longshot is relatively easy, though ;)

Yep, looks like.

So, "sh" sound instead of "ks" sound then. Got it!

Boredom is the perfect excuse to gank memes :O

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Socchan? I *LOVE* your icon! **howls** Batman-hunting equipment!!! Holy shit. **covers face** I have GOT to stop binging on TeenTitans fics, because now I want to send Impulse off with that net...

[soc_puppet]

XD Thank you? It was originally intended to be a drawing of... something else see keywords/description, but that interpretation works, too. And by all means, let nothing stop you from writing the fic in question.

[girlquinn.livejournal.com]

Mine's pretty simple. Girl quinn. "ger-luh kuh-win" or however you write phonetically. Also goes by Quinn. As in Harley Quinn from Batman the Animated Series. If I ever find myself in Iowa or you find yourself in California, we'll exchange real names then. =P

[soc_puppet]

Thought that might be the case :D Double-checking is my friend, though.

Works for me :O