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What do you think (this person's) username means, without looking it up? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I don't mean my username! Yours!

I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking 'guess' or saying ':)' or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person's username?

Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone's name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people's weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.

Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not nerd enough! Obviously thinking of a colonel in distress, but everytime I read colonel I think of a middle school friend who would not believe me that it's not pronounced "ko low null"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You got pretty close by accident because it is a wordplay on the pronounciation of colonel! And like your friend, I initially thought it sounds like β€œko low nell” for a very long time until I realized that English pronounciations are just guesswork sometimes :D That's why the word is now stuck in my mind forever (alongside town names like "Gloucester").

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wow, that's so funny that a silly memory from my childhood could get it that close!