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[helenic]

Oh, go on, then. I actually filled this out when I first saw it on jacinthsong's journal, but never got round to posting it. The meme: write out your friends list, replacing their usernames with their first names. Anyone you don't know should introduce themselves, obliquely or otherwise!

I've missed out all my own journals and all duplicate journals, which means you can't do a straight comparison from my friends list to this. But then, the only person you need to recognise on here is yourself...



#: Daniel
_: Clare, Katy, Toyin
A: Tish, Alec, Alix, amberspyglass (god, I'm sure I know this, but I can't remember for the life of me - I keep thinking Angela instead but I know that's thedarkamethyst), Andrew, areia (argh! sorry!), Lucy, Sally, Joanna
B: Michael, Ed, Laura, Helen/Josef, Gabrielle, Baz, Nana, Robert
C: Kieran, Cristian (ok ok, Casby), John, Sarah, cravenlite, Tim
D: Dave, Denny, detroitpainter, Richard, Adam, Ross, drella
E: Elise, Matthew, Nicholas, Emilie, Nick
F: Kyrsten, Tim, Jo, fever_dream, Mark, Idil, Danny
G: Jodie, glaszt, gnimmel (I should know this one, really)
H: Elizabeth
I: Nadiah, Tom, Liz
J: jacinthsong
K: Kara, kiad, Iain
L: Jasmine, Leander, laughingwoman, leafofgrass, Mark, likepatsycline, Dave, literarywitch, liviaplurabelle, Russell (is that how you spell it?)
M: Lou, Sam, Alex, Diana, Lisa, Renee, Rebecca, Elly, modestic (I know we've been introduced, but it's eluding me), Ed
N: Richard, nautical_mile, Neil, Sarah, Marina
O: oddcellist, Julietta (is that your real name? it'll do.), Oli, Ariela, other_self
P: Paige, papercrane, pesk, Liam, pistorius, Charlotta, Louisa, San
Q: Adam
R: Chris, Brian, realdoll, Robert,
S: Erika, Richard, Leni & Pola, sisuphos (it begins with a J! I know your surname! bah!), Sam, Paul, Jess, Michael, Zeina, sunday, Mark, Rupa, Leon
T: Rick, Lucy, Catriona, Liz, the_waves, theobscureone, Rachael, translucent, Helen
U: Lucy, Matt
V: Alex
W: Lucy
X: xenikos
Y: Jess, Yves
Z: "Ady"!

Comments

[whatifoundthere.livejournal.com]

My name is unusual enough that I'm actually kind of uncomfortable with strangers knowing it. Since I almost never hear it when it's not referring to me specifically, it always gives me a bit of a jolt when it's spoken aloud.

But just in case you need a reminder, my post about my name is here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/amberspyglass/60856.html). Not Angela at all :)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it begins and ends with the same letter. At least, I think so - I now know how to pronounce it, but not how to spell it!

Names are even more odd when they belong to more than one person. My own name has always seemed very alien to me - in fact it's only since I started keeping a livejournal that I've actually begun to associate the sounds with me. But I mean, when I was obsessed with Laura, the name became momentous - it was a very different name to the name everyone else called Laura had; it resonated differently. I don't believe I pronounced it differently at all (perhaps there was more of an element of Löra to it than normal) but there was a huge distinction. There still is, for anyone I'm at all close to - for example, Chris has a very different name from the name "Chris", which anyone can have. I suppose when I think my own name to myself, it is with that personal emphasis - but when I hear it spoken, it is the impersonal version, which anyone can be called. This really isn't making sense :)

[whatifoundthere.livejournal.com]

I now know how to pronounce it, but not how to spell it!

Oops! Well, if you do a Google search on my last name, which I do spell in that post, the first hit you'll get is me. You'll see that no letters are repeated in my given name after all :)

This really isn't making sense

Actually, it makes quite a lot of sense. I was in a gaming group once that had two guys named Paul (actually one was named Paull, but that's another story). Very soon it got to the point where not only the Paul(l)s, but everyone else, could generally tell who was being addressed if someone yelled "Hey, Paul(l)!" The guys were very different, and their names somehow reflected that. If you are listening, you can hear the difference.

So I can definitely imagine a big difference between the pronunciation of your name and the pronunciation of the name of that chick from Troy. Especially since you're so much prettier than she is :)