Poster names you got wrong...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was just reading Threadspotting’s “Snowman with Issues” thread when I came across a post by thinksnow, who mentioned that he is one of the resident snowmen.

“He’s a snowman?” I thought, “how am I supposed to know that?”

Ohhhh…his name! And all this time I had been attributing some sort of intellectualism to him by calling him (in my mind) thinks now. Turns out his name is actually think snow. Oops. Big difference. (Not that thinking snow means you’re not intellectual, but you know what I mean.)

Same thing happened with Sealemon…I’d been calling him Sea Lemon, not SillyMon as he has explained.

So anyway…now I’m wondering how many other people I am calling the wrong name. Anybody else make these mistakes?

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Now that you mention it, I just realized that your name is pronounced “SUN - SHINE”. All this time I thought it was pronounce “SUNS - HEINY”.
:slight_smile:

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For the longest time, I was pronouncing (in my head) Sue Duhnym as Sue Done 'Em. It was a while before I made the mental connection… Pseudonym. Boy, did I feel stupid.

BTW, Sue, I hope your new nose has settled down to match the rest of your lovely face.

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Jack Batty, what a card! :smiley:

ResDog…aack! All along I’ve thought it was Sue Done 'em too! I wondered what that meant. I thought maybe it was her real name! Duh.

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Canthearya is one I think I was pronouncing wrong.

If I’m not mistaken it should be pronounced Can’t Hear Ya and I was thinking it was Canthear Ya.

[sub](I hope I’m right)[/sub]:slight_smile:

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LOL was sea lemon for me too … me = dumbass

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For a long time I read rundogrun not as “run dog run”, but instead as some sort of weird fairy-tale samurai sort of thing: “rundo grun”

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I’m sure you didn’t feel as stupid as I do at this very moment. I’d probably never have made the connection had you not posted it. Sheesh. Whattamaroon.

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I still read Alphagene as Allah-fa-ganuh. I suppose I am mildly dislexic because I see it spelled Alaphagne more often for some odd reason even though I know it is Alpha-gene.

I used to have the problem with Canthearya. Sealemon originally was Seal-mon rather than sea lemon but I went back and forth between the two until he explained it was Silly mon.

HUGS!
Sqrl

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Actually its “Can the arya” she hates classical music.
I have a problem with Aglarond, I always read it as Argo land.

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For some reason, when I see the handle “mangeorge”, my brain fills in a few extra letters and I end up thinking, “mangeorange”. Don’t know why.

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I’ve got you all beat for Sue Duhnym’s name. I used to misread it as “sue dwinim”, kind of like the Houyhnhnms from Gulliver’s Travels.

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oh.

I didn’t get Sue’s name either, until someone pointed it out in another thread. I felt rather stupid.

mangeorge never breaks up properly for me; I see “mange orge” (ogre?) instead.

I also have no idea how I am supposed to pronounce iampunha, as I always see it as “I am pun-ha!”

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gun-slinger. Just thought you’d like to know.

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Ah.

I always read it as “Gunsl,” y’know, like Wilmer, the “gunsel,” in THE MALTESE FALCON, and figured “Inger” was your name.

I’ve always pictured you as a gorgeous chesty blonde Swedish chick in a fedora hat.

Apropos of nothing, I was looking at the “designated hitter” thread in GQ, and briefly read it as Designated Hitler. Which would be kind of cool if some new right-wing loony joined up in order to express his racist and Europe-conquering views in Great Debates.

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Geeze, Ike. I thought I was the only one who read it as “Designated Hitler.” :eek:

I’m with robinh – Just how in the heck am I supposed to pronounce iampunha?

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All of this talk reminds me of one of my favourite Jack Handy’s Deep Thoughts.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: “Mankind”. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words - “mank” and “ind”. What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is mankind.

By the way, my name is pronounced lolagr anola. It’s actually ancient Sumerian. Roughly translated, it means “bearer of wisdom” or “one who humps camels”, depending on how much emphasis you give the “gr”.

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My name is spelled Crunchy Frog, but it’s pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove.

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Lola: That’s enough Big Boy, you’re finished.
Camel: No I’m not, baby, I’m a dromedary.

That one might fly over my own head when I read it.

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It took me a while to figure out “Sue Dohnym”, too, I have to admit.

Every time I see “Fretful Porpentine” I have to think “Forgetful Porcupine”. Ouch!