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Re: Abandoning the pseudonym for the real name: pro and con?
« Reply #75 on: January 21, 2008, 10:10:21 AM »
And plenty of people have a hard time figuring out how to pronounce "Haliczer". 

Sounds like "halsher"?

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« Reply #76 on: January 21, 2008, 10:27:48 AM »
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Sounds like "halsher"?

Nope.  Trouble is, it's a Polish-ish name that my husband's family has mangled into an American-ish pronunciation.  Hal--ix--er, like "elixir" but with an ha on the beginning.
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« Reply #77 on: January 21, 2008, 10:32:53 AM »
Oh, okay.  Was trying to overthink it.  So it's pronounced exactly like it's spelled (or at least how it looks to me).

A guy I know from college has a surname that gave our professors fits trying to get it right.  It's spelled Hrncirik.  He ponounced it "hernshrick".

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« Reply #78 on: January 21, 2008, 10:47:35 AM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on January 21, 2008, 09:32:53 AM
Oh, okay.  Was trying to overthink it.  So it's pronounced exactly like it's spelled (or at least how it looks to me).

A guy I know from college has a surname that gave our professors fits trying to get it right.  It's spelled Hrncirik.  He ponounced it "hernshrick".

Yeah, I had a dorm mate with a name that pronounce like my-shock, but had one Y and six consonants.  The things with Haliczer is that it invites overthinking--the cz combination is not English, and so one is tempted to not pronounce it as one would in English.  Of course I was born a Rabinowitz.  Glad to let that one go, it's hard to explain that yes, my name is Rabinowitz, and yes, I am a Roman Catholic.  And it's amazing how many people pronounced it "Rabinsky"

I almost broke the whole thing off so I could run off with a guy names Smith or Jones  laugh
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Re: Abandoning the pseudonym for the real name: pro and con?
« Reply #79 on: January 21, 2008, 10:53:09 AM »
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...it's hard to explain that yes, my name is Rabinowitz ...And it's amazing how many people pronounced it "Rabinsky"...

As Texan'd up as my pronunciation might be I still had a mental double-take on that one.  How the heck did they get "insky" from "owitz"?  That would be like pronouncing my first name as "Clark".

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« Reply #80 on: January 21, 2008, 10:56:25 AM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on January 21, 2008, 09:53:09 AM
As Texan'd up as my pronunciation might be I still had a mental double-take on that one.  How the heck did they get "insky" from "owitz"?

"Oh, it's one of those unpronouncable Jew-y names, those all end in -sky"

Or something along those lines...
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Re: Abandoning the pseudonym for the real name: pro and con?
« Reply #81 on: January 21, 2008, 11:20:01 AM »
Quote from: BridgeWalker on January 21, 2008, 09:56:25 AM
Quote from: Brad Johnson on January 21, 2008, 09:53:09 AM
As Texan'd up as my pronunciation might be I still had a mental double-take on that one.  How the heck did they get "insky" from "owitz"?

"Oh, it's one of those unpronouncable Jew-y names, those all end in -sky"

Or something along those lines...

Haliczer, your APS name is "Pinto".
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« Reply #82 on: January 21, 2008, 12:01:40 PM »
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Haliczer, your APS name is "Pinto".

Why Pinto? 
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« Reply #83 on: January 21, 2008, 12:04:58 PM »
Quote from: BridgeWalker on January 21, 2008, 11:01:40 AM
Quote from: carebear on January 21, 2008, 10:20:01 AM
Haliczer, your APS name is "Pinto".

Why Pinto? 

Youngsters these days.  No appreciation for the arts...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon's_Animal_House

*snicker*

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« Reply #84 on: January 21, 2008, 12:07:10 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on January 21, 2008, 11:04:58 AM
Youngsters these days.  No appreciation for the arts...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon's_Animal_House

*snicker*

Joke's on you Brad.
I was quoting Pinto/Larry.  laugh

The correct response involves a loud belch and "why not?"
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« Reply #85 on: January 21, 2008, 12:15:16 PM »
Um, yeah.  I knew that..

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« Reply #86 on: January 21, 2008, 12:17:15 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on January 21, 2008, 11:15:16 AM
Um, yeah.  I knew that..

I'm a law student.  It's a movie about drinking too much.  'Nuff said?
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« Reply #87 on: January 21, 2008, 12:22:48 PM »
My real name is Bill and I'm truck driver from Omaha. 

Now you know.  grin
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« Reply #88 on: January 21, 2008, 12:28:00 PM »
Quote from: Barbara on January 21, 2008, 11:22:48 AM
My real name is Bill and I'm truck driver from Omaha. 

Now you know.  grin

That is just wrong in sooooooo many ways...  grin

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« Reply #89 on: January 21, 2008, 12:32:18 PM »
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Re: Abandoning the pseudonym for the real name: pro and con?
« Reply #90 on: January 21, 2008, 01:01:28 PM »
Who knew, Carebear is 17 and 'down for whatever'

As far as I know I'm the only person with my combination of names in the world. At least facebook and google have never shown me any others. That's too much information to be leaving everywhere.

My username is my real first name, and you can try and guess at the surname (cept Barbara), but not for high stakes - see Two Ronnies sketch
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« Reply #91 on: January 21, 2008, 01:59:32 PM »
Ironically, I am a "renegade slayer".

Obviously the government is using one of my super-soldier clones to do a deep infiltration of the emo-kid world.
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Re: Abandoning the pseudonym for the real name: pro and con?
« Reply #92 on: January 22, 2008, 10:26:06 AM »
I look at announcing my real name on the Internet like consenting to a search by the police... sure, I have nothing to hide, but what benefit do I gain?  None.  No upside, lots of potential downsides.

I had one guy show up to my work a few years ago, and we had to call the cops.  I had some other yo-yo call my boss in a lame attempt to get me fired (oddly enough, because I asked him to stop portscanning one of my machines).

And if someone thinks I'm "hiding behind anonymity", that doesn't really bother me Wink
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« Reply #93 on: January 22, 2008, 08:23:33 PM »
I use my real first name.
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« Reply #94 on: January 22, 2008, 09:05:04 PM »
Quote from: jnojr on January 22, 2008, 09:26:06 AM
I look at announcing my real name on the Internet like consenting to a search by the police... sure, I have nothing to hide, but what benefit do I gain?  None.  No upside, lots of potential downsides.

Well, I disagree that there's no benefit to it.  I've met lots of neat people I otherwise would not have.  Actually every single mother friend I have I've met through parenting boards, directly or indirectly.  I hope to set up a range day with a poster on here sometime soon (well, maybe when it's not so farking cold).  My husband connected with his pistol instructor on THR, and we'll soon be taking a CPL class from him together.  Yeah, there are benefits. 

Of course if you're not looking for those things, that's cool.  I'm just mercurial enough that if I did have an illusion on anonymity I might go and get real obnoxious when something irks me.  But with my various ID's linked to my name through a simply Google search and some fiddling around online, I feel much less ready to get incautious. 
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