I've always wondered, how should I pronounce your name? Right now I do this: SIJ-HO.I played with that DF account for over a decade, and that nickname has stayed with me ever since.
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Well, it wasn't meant to be pronounced haha, but when I say it out loud its sijho (ho somewhat like in Jorge, but more from the throat, I couldn't find that exact phonetic)
Mine's pretty boring. I was hearing Blood and Guts song and decided to change Guts to Puck.
I'm a big old school AD&D player and "Arthur Higgsbury" was a name originally used by a character I played in a game where I was used to dying a lot. He was a Thief that I had built with enough intelligence to hopefully switch to Magic-User one day. Thought he was a goner when he ended up on his first big solo mission before reaching level 2. Snuck into the guard's barracks, made it out with some important documents that led to us stopping a human sacrifice. He never died, but sadly the campaign eventually died out. Never did manage to switch to MU, but I pulled off some crazy stunts with him.
Made him into an NPC when I eventually started running my own games. Ever since then the name's kinda just stuck with me.
Made him into an NPC when I eventually started running my own games. Ever since then the name's kinda just stuck with me.
Mine is just what google heard when I said my last name with my first name's initial in front, on my phone's mic (if my name was John Aaron for example, the equivalent would be Jaaron).
Anyway, it gave me back Scott Rugeles and I really only use it here I think.
Anyway, it gave me back Scott Rugeles and I really only use it here I think.
Hahaha, what a great way to get an alias! Love it.
Always thought "Scott" was a weird name for a Greek. Thanks for scratching one more thing out of my curiosity list!
Beelzebud
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It's really a cool word(it's the same in Portuguese, and similar[Spada] in Italian) and it's origin comes from the latin "spatha" that actually did not mean "sword"(that was "gladius") but a specific type/model of sword used during the late end of the Roman Empire, and was used also during the early Middle Age, and it comes from the Ancient Greek "spáthē". You may got that it sounds familiar, right? Like a small town, maybe you heard of it, know as Sparta?
Hey sorry for going off-topic, but I don't think Sparta's name is correlated with "spáthē".It's really a cool word(it's the same in Portuguese, and similar[Spada] in Italian) and it's origin comes from the latin "spatha" that actually did not mean "sword"(that was "gladius") but a specific type/model of sword used during the late end of the Roman Empire, and was used also during the early Middle Age, and it comes from the Ancient Greek "spáthē". You may got that it sounds familiar, right? Like a small town, maybe you heard of it, know as Sparta?
The general consensus is that it comes from ''spēro'', (''Σπείρω'', to sow, to seed).
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Never did actually but i think i'm more into swords-mans, I can watch it though.
Beelzebud
[...] Into the abyss will I run [...]
Yeah, that's the consensus, but it's still a similarly pronounced word, linguistics are very complex and don't follow a straight line, but don't want to deep much into this here at this thread.
I was supposed to be "Wyald Dreams" but I missed the "a". Oh well.