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What do you think (this person's) username means, without looking it up? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by misnina@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] ElGatoEsBlanco@labdegato.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mine should be easy enough lol

[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's been 18 years since I had spanish class but uhhhh, the cat is white?

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[–] CoqPants@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hmm.. what could it be?

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

The proof is in the pantaloons?

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[–] Kurt@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] amenok@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alright, let's play

[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

does sound like an egyptian god, don't know any root words. or could be amen ok, which sounds like it could be a sarcastic response or funny in joke

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[–] arbiter329@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mine's pretty obvious.

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[–] Packopus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lets gooooooo

[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

A pack of octopus!

[–] cnschn@lemmy.cnschn.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeaah mine's really hard to make any sense of. It was an automatically generated username some time back, and then I kept using it all over the place because it was kinda short and still kinda unique. I'd love some suggestions on how to pronounce it though, no clue in that regard!

[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

kun ss chun

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[–] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The story of WasPentalive - My normal avatar is a depiction of the R-Pentamino in John Conway's game of life. A 5 cell arrangement that throws off a number gliders in different directions. In one account I was simply PentaLive (Penta = 5 Live=the game of life) but I lost the password to that account at the same time as I no longer had access to the email address I registered. So I had to create a new account - I was Pentalive so I became WASPentalive.

Did I misunderstand the question?

[–] alen@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

name gang stepping up

[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In that case, my first image that shows up is Allen from the harvest moon friends of mineral town remake. And I hate him. : )

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