How did you choose your username?
Mine came from work. Normally a PhD would be called “Dr _last_name” but I kept telling people to just call me Jim, and the Dr Jim started as kind of a joke, but stuck.
To be honest, it seems kind of weird on Steepster: I didn’t really expect to post more than a few times and was looking for something anonymous. As it is, I’m becoming a regular, and kind of wish I’d picked something more related to tea.
Ha ha Anna
Dr Jim – I worked with a psychologist who was named Dr. Heather. I just assumed that was her last name as that is how she introduced herself. About 2 years later I was talking to an insurance company who had no idea who I was referring to. I found out that Heather was her first name (her last name was a 16 letter long greek name that was so hard to say and spell that she just decided to go by her first name). Ha ha.
Dr.Jim, you can change your nickname on your accounts page. Might take a few days to go thru, but it will.
I thought for some time that the phrase “ginger delight” had a ring to it, and I decided replace ginger with kiwi because it’s my favorite fruit and one of my favorite birds. (This is a fun thread :P)
Awww, the kiwi bird is so adorable!
And it is my favorite fruit as well… Are there any interesting kiwi-flavored blends out there?
No luck for me! I’ve only had one kind, and it was a bagged green tea with kiwi flavor. Fruity teas are a no-go for me anyway.
The kiwi-vanilla from Kränku is DIVINE.
http://steepster.com/teas/kranku/39594-kiwi-vanilj-kiwi-vanilla
Kiwi’s Big Adventure from David’s is one of my favourite green tea blends. Big chunks of kiwi fruit in it, too.
Hrmmmmm can’t read the Swedish x_x Kiwi vanilla does sound good.
Jen M I’ve been eyeing that one…
The Swedish? In the description, you mean? I put an English translation up, too, when I added it to the database. =)
Yeah, the one that Anna mentioned does sound great… I don’t think I will be able to lay my hands on it in the nearest future though :(
And I forgot about the David’s blend! I will have to keep it in mind… I will sooner swap for it than make an order with them, though.
Oh, I’ll swap you the Swedish kiwi tea whenever, Kat_Maria – I still have a bunch left, and I can easily get more.
Woohoo, maybe we should think of a swap, then! Would I have anything in my cupboard that interests you?
I haven’t had a chance to check, but there’s always something cool to be found, in my experience. I’ll follow you, and we’ll sort something out. =)
In the end, mine is pretty boring. Moraiwe is Quenya (Tolkien’s formal Elvish essentially) for blackbird. It’s a handle I’ve used in various placed for over a decade now because I adore birds and was a cheeky teenager who thought the symbolism of blackbirds as The Unknown and Higher Ideals was really a clever name to give myself.
I still like blackbirds, though, so the name stuck.
I don’t think your story is boring at all. I had no idea what your name meant, and then a few days ago you explained it in a tasting note. I think it is neat you were that passionate to learn Quenya.
I agree with Lala! (I’m the one with the too-obvious-to-even-bother-explaining user name, after all.)
Haha, I studied some Quenya back in the day! Guess I should have recognizd it. I even got to take a Linguistics of Middle Earth class in college.
GASP another Tolkien fan :O
Dinosara that’s awesome. I wish I could take a Tolkien course in general.
We’re all crawling out of the woodwork! Woo!
It’s pronounced more or less like:
mōrīwĕ or more-I-we (like we in wet)
The ‘r’ is slightly rolled, and the emphasis is on the second syllable, and the ‘we’ part is kind of short sounding. Really the ‘ai’ kind of glides together and it’s more like īē merged together. For simplicity most of that usually gets overlooked when I’m telling people how to say it on XBL or something.
Yay! Tolkien nerds unite! I went through a phase in college where I tried to learn Quenya and Sindarin and failed, and instead spent a lot of time learning how to write the elvish letters since they were so pretty. I still have that notebook somewhere and I look at it ocassionaly, astounded that for a while there my brain was filled with so much awesome!
I think my name in Sindarin (it might have been Quenyan though) is Silivrenmoe; real life name is Jennifer and both names are based on ‘white wave’ – that sort of thing. I used that handle for A LONG TIME.
Also, the LotR movies were out when I was in college so it was NO COINCIDENCE that I embraced that fandom more than I had already…
I had already fallen hard for LotR and the History of Middle Earth books before the movies came out. But that was high school, so it was easy to latch on tighter than I already had. I ended up learning Sindarin after the movies came out and Quenya before. (I’m still way more attached to Quenya (I think it sounds richer, and has been more thoroughly explore and written about by Tolkien himself).
But seriously everyone needs an Elvish name. They’re so pretty!
I’m pretty certain that you chose a Sindarin name. It roughly translates into a ‘soft white-glittering’, which definitely works with wave imagery. It’s really lovely :)
I used Lohtëriel interchangeably for a while before too much stuff got tied to moraiwe. It roughly means ‘crowned in blossoms’. My name is Lauren (laurels, etc) so it worked for me.
I’m with Lala, I think it’s an interesting story! My daughter met a girl via GeekGirlCon who could speak Elvish and she thought it was the coolest thing ever. ;)
I saw the name Ubacat on a product (or somewhere!) a long time ago and it stuck as my user name in many different groups. I love cats and just liked that name.
When I was in seventh grade, a few friends and I decided we needed nicknames. I became Sushi. It stuck.
Because I had to both learn to grow flowers from seeds (harder than it sounds in a city apartment) and use a DSLR camera to get my photo. Seemed appropriate those hobbies should feed into this one, so it resulted in the name.
This is a neat topic, I’ve often wondered about some of these.
I started using the name Dinosara for various internet things a while ago. Basically, my name is Sara and I am a paleontologist who studies dinosaurs.
That is so cool! One of my first ambitions was to be a paleontologist. So cool to actually “know” one.
Wow.. cool job! I agree with Morgana … cool to “know” one. My friends daughter would be in awe!
Oh my gosh that’s so cool! My friend loves dinosaurs so much! She’s actually taken a Paleontology course for her major.
She’s an animal science major, working with like diseased animals in a lab, but hey! She’s gotta start somewhere :)
That’s pretty great. Is that why you have a bird for your profile pic? (bc of the relation to dinosaurs?)
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