Title is self expanatory. You see, I'm stuck with a really horrible net name and I'm looking to change. What do you guys do when you're figuring out net names?
And... No, eterno is not my net name. It's the name of my Animal Crossing character and my CL name. Anywhere else, I'm known with generic sucky McNumber net name that stuck.
Take your name, last and first, then take little bits. Put them together. Then put it backwards.
EX: Alex Nguyen = Aluyen = Neyula.
You now have a name that sounds and looks stupid. :D
@Ucui Which one is the last name? The last name in official documents? The family name? Or the one with a location on it?
Does it matter? Just take some some words and mash them up till they look cool enough for your taste.
I tend to go with family name though.
I'll try your formula
Alriv = Viral WTF?
Then my family names
Elektrik = Kirtkele
Hmm... That kinda fucks it up...
Then my alias
Kinot = Tonik
Fuck, I'll put them together!
Viral + Elektrik + Tonik = Viktor Klein
Ok, now I'm a German >:(
This is hard...
I used two nicknames I've had before for this account jojo has been my "online" name since PSN so I used it everywhere.
Yes I've been called bird I'll leave you to figure why.
For help I suggest something with a fez because fezes are cool.
fezes
Can't... Stop... Laughing! Lololololololololol
fezes are cool
Well played.
I just use stuff that's obscure yet a reference. Like mine comes from an oldish video game :3
I threw together a bunch of random ass kanji and started thinking up different ways to read them, just a bunch of mixing up with kunyomi and the onyomi.
A quirk of understanding Japanese I guess...
I only know a few unfortunately. （大電車）の読み方は何ですか?
Or what if I just throw kanji randomly? 成当雨商品泳 How would they be read?
You can get pretty liberal with it. If it isn't accompanied by furigana, I'd read 大電車 as だいでんしゃ or おおでんしゃ; I guess you could read it as おおきでんしゃ, but usually おおき is written 大き (though I've read tons of literature that just have 大 already and still read as おおき, but it's pretty uncommon/irregular).
成当雨商品泳 can be read a shit ton of ways, and I be too lazy to list them. Japanese naming is pretty convoluted because parents usually try to name their kid something special, but not special as in the pronunciation of their name, but special in the characters used to form their names, that's why it's pretty fucking annoying to guess someone's name if only given kanji. It's also why when people introduce themselves via naming, they'll tell you the characters that make up their names as well. For example: "MY NAME IS XXX XXX, WRITTEN WITH THE CHARACTER FOR SEX AND THE CHARACTER FOR BLOWAHUGELOADINME."
Or something like that.
EDIT: Oh right, forgot to mention there are also names that use no kanji at all (and it's not limited to only foreigners), but that has nothing to do with coming up with net names.
Oh yeah, I remember that scene from Black Rock Shooter, yeah lol, Japanese people must have been teased of their surnames a lot when they're in elementary school!
But, how do you get the perfect combination? I mean many Japanese people have pretty much a mix and match name, right? But how could 'SUPERHEROJUSTICE' and 'ROLLERCOASTEROFDOOM' be read as Hiroyuki?
Or how do you come up with names like in DRRR! ? I mean, everyone's name there seems to have perfect combination.
Lastly, how is 'Hiroshi' and 'yakyuu' (baseball) related?
Errr, can't say I know much about that last one other than Hiraoka Hiroshi was credited for introducing baseball to Japan.
As for the perfection combination, it's pretty much whatever the fuck the parents want it to be. Most will name their kid based on common onyomi or kunyomi readings, so not every name's characters are nonsensical, but just know that if a parent wanted to, they can say "read it as Dick, and write it as [insert any fucking character they want]".
Oh, ok.
How would you read 古川 then? Apparently my name is old/middle english for 'old river' (which is the river closest to the sea) and quick google translate gave me that and the reading is ふるかわ and is a surname but what would be alternate readings for it?
If you're just going strictly by the common on and kun readings, there are a lot of different combinations, but here are a few common ones used as names:
こかわ／こがわ ふるがわ／ふるかは こが こせん
What about less common ones? You know, going by @Elegy 's advice
Honestly, I don't really know; I'd probably hit up a dictionary site that has the readings for 古 and 川 and start messing around with different combinations.
Alright,
But I do have another question. What about 古岸?
A few ways 古岸 can be written:
こぎし ふろきし／ふるぎし
Or you could just steal some random bands name, or something stupid like that.
@Deftones When SOPA is passed your name will be forfeited due to illegal use and copyright infringement :P .
blackposting yeah.
I'm just coming across the words and use them as my nicknames later. Like I used Fieber after I was ill and had nothing to do and started learning German, Keloid - after I had piercing problems (it became my gaming name later) and so on.
I use less common words I've grown fond of for one reason or another. Limpid, Elegy, and Misanthrope where a few of mine.
I have personal connections to each but I suppose you could check a thesaurus or something like that.
Simple: Just think of the last thing you ate (ex: bacon) = a add an underscore _ = b The color of your shirt times the item next to you (white fan) = c a random number (132) = d Follow the equation a+b+c+d = username bacon_whitefan132 there you go
Okay, I'll try MilkyWay_blackpencilcase110 Hmm... I like the milky way part.
whats up with these dark posts?
Mine:
Make noises that begin or end with "a", pick one you like. I did this for 3 usernames before this one, which has a special history of it's own.
Your story for your username still cracks me up @Acostoss
Make it a pun on your name and something you like.
I.E.
My name is Luke. I like star wars. Theres a character whose name is Luke Skywalker. I'm black. I'm the flyest nigga yall have ever seen.
Luke [Fly][Walker]
and I just like the number 37. :P
I steal my names from various places. The first I stole from Love Hina, changed a letter. Etc, etc. My current one is the least original, which is just a common Polish last name.
I think.
Suggestion: I once randomly typed hiragana and katakana, read it as it is, take off some unnecessary sounds, then used it as a net name.. but I guess it does not work all the time..
well as for me.. Chirio is inspired by Togame(from Katanagatari).. I changed the "ee" into i and used it as a name for my local manga archive (I host mangas inside the dormitory, it's called "the Chirio Library").. then I used it in online games and found out that it is one hell of a unique name (since the games do not give suggestions like chirio_01 or chirio01).. ever since then I used "chirio" as my net name..
howd u guys get your posts darker like that ;-;