What do you mean, name changes?

[trilobyte]

I wanted to make sure that the thread announcing any username changes didn't get swamped with banter and conversation, so I'm being a jerk and keeping that locked.

Instead, feel free to discuss name changes here. Is your ePlaya username also your playa name? Is it close? Way off? Mine's pretty close, I go by Trilo (pronounced try-low) both on the playa and in defaultia.

[Savannah]

I like finding out that you go by Trilo in defaultia! That's just fun. Also, I'm bad enough with names, so I like not having to remember two.

Me--I'm Savannah by birth, and Savannah pretty much everywhere.

[sajitaki]

In default I go by my given, Rob. For fun events I go by Saji, (saw-jee) or sajitaki if I'm trying to be formal.

[theCryptofishist]

I have a wholly separate nickname for much of defaultia...

[ranger magnum]

Im magnum on playa, eplaya, and as a nickname in defaultia

[pirotechnics]

On the Playa & in most of every day life (except at work) I'm Piro (pronounced pyro)

[BoyScoutGirl]

When signing up, it was pretty much a toss-up for me between my internet handle and the nickname I anticipate using on the playa. Unfortunately, the flipped coin favored the name nobody can spell and most can barely pronounce. Even though I genuinely like it as an identifier, I regretted choosing "ensimismada" before even my 10th post here.

So, I added the other nickname to my signature. That was easy.

Trilo, might I suggest a possible solution? I've seen other online boards put "formerly <old username>" or "AKA <old username>" under the current user name, right where yours says moderator. This might draw more attention to the fact that a name change is possible and thus make more work for the mods, but I think it would reduce confusion...

[trilobyte]

No thanks, sticking with what's been outlined.

[junglesmacks]

This thread is starting to sound a little like this one: viewtopic.php?f=56&t=38004

[ultratang7]

When I signed up here, it was before my first time out, and I didn't have my Playa name yet. So, I used my regular internet name "Ultratang7". Then I was gifted the name "Chief Steamboat Chilli" by the Black Rock Yearbook people. So, I'm going to use "Chilli".

[trilobyte]

@junglesmacks - yes, though that one's been dead for a year and has nothing to do with username changes.

[BBadger]

Wow, I didn't even know I could change my nickname. You mean I could have been impersonating Vargaso this whole time?!

[Zhust]

I think I was on ePlaya before I ever went to Burning Man. By habit, I was JayceRochester pretty much everywhere online. But in 2010 I definitively changed my Playa name to Zhust. So stop calling me "Jayce" all the time, dag nab it!

[trilobyte]

I like the name, I imagine it as sounding like the z gets pronounced like Zsa Zsa Gabor's name, and it rhymes with just. Am I close?

[Zhust]

I like the name, I imagine it as sounding like the z gets pronounced like Zsa Zsa Gabor's name, and it rhymes with just. Am I close?

Holy shit: you're the first person who got it. In person, I just say "just" ... if I say "zhust" (one syllable, "zh" like "sh" only with a "z") people echo back "zu-hust". Philistines!

[theCryptofishist]

I had the "zh" (so easy!) but I thought the vowel was an "oo".

[Zhust]

I do understand: I'll often be reading a novel and come across a character name that I just never bother to assign a pronunciation until the day I'm talking with someone and have to say the character's name and I'm just completely stumped how to utter the word.

[Savannah]

I had the "zh" (so easy!) but I thought the vowel was an "oo".

Me, too. I'm actually mildly disappointed.

[catinthefunnyhat]

yeah, i also thought it was a long u
i love the zh sound and spelling.

[theCryptofishist]

Can we petition to get his playa name changed so sounds like it's spelled (to us)?