How did you decide on your handle?

i can't believe my parents named me assneck

I have a friend named charlie (chuck) just like that.
He brakes stuff so often we now refer to breaking somthing as "Chucking it up"

As for my handle, i'm still in the searching phase UNFLUX mentioned before. Someone called me this before & it came to mind when I was registering.

How can you procounce something you read?

IH8Purple --
I consider what I say in my mind equivelent to what I say with my mouth. Words are important. They are how we communicate -- More-so in my opinion are names. That's why I started this thread to begin with. I love seeing why people choose the handles they do. That's why I always make an attempt to address people by the handle they chose to use. If it's important to them, it should be important to me.

I do belive that names are inportant, I think I just may have realised a difference in a way of read. By that, I think that the way you read is almost that you say the words to yourself in your head after you read them. When I read it has absolutely no connection to spoken words. I see letters, words, sentences and paragraphs, but I do not see or hear sounds. In that sense I have no 'observation' as to how written words may be pronounced. I did not intend to offend your belief in names, nor the way you read, and I apologize for this misunderstanding.

Yeah, many people do that. lol.
PLOO-TON-E-UM

share the word lol

*smiles ... think about it like this IH8Purple ...read this:
"Can you hear me now" Did you read that, or did you hear that?

whatlikesit12345

its my sn

I read it. If I want to hear it I have to read very slowly, then speed at which I can talk, which is much slower than the speed I can read. I can look at 4-5 words in one glance, but I can most certainly not say 4-5 words in that time

*still smiling...well that was only 5 words...but I'm equally as sure that's a quote you've heard a thousand times...hence my point. I think you were closer on your prior answer....

P.S. there was no "misunderstanding"...just so you know.

Im totally unoriginal - mines my *real* name.

How funny! I do the same thing ATNO/TW, but I thought I was the only one. In fact, if I can't pronounce a word I see on the page in my head, I just skip over it and keep going.

I find the worst is when I run into abbreviations or text that really isn't pronouncable. It's most noticeable for me when I'm writing HTML code. I'm literally talking to myself in my head as I write the code (sometimes I even get bad enough to mumble it to myself as I'm writing). I'll say </title> as "close title" or whatever the tag name is.

What would that be called, aural reading?

Mark

Apparently "Nego" is a cat food company in Japan. I was in there for one summer when I was like 8 years old and the technology in the place was amazing I stayed there for like an hour despite the really bad smell. Kind of got me into computers actually.

well, my name came from when I got my tattoo...

Let's see if you can visualize...

I have a tattoo on my lower back of an angel facing backwards, crosslegged, with no clothes (i.e. natural). She is inside a star, and she in turn has a star on her back... maybe I'll just post a pic... ooh maybe I'll create a thread about tattoos!! My tattoo was designed by a really good friend of mine, so it's very original.. one of a kind.. like me!

anyway, that's where "natural" and "angel" came from. I added the underscore because I hate it when I can't read something that is 2 words put together. The 33 came because I thought it looked like angel wings, although now I see doesn't really...

I make computer based media.