How did you come up with your username?

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I am generally very quiet (though not really on here)
I like angels

My usernames usually have a combination with angel in them, they always have.

Same with the name Sophia. I think it's from the Greek root meaning "wisdom"- which would make perfect sense because philosophy would then mean "love of wisdom", from philos meaning "love" and sophia meaning "wisdom" or "knowledge".

I just love classical language roots, don't you?

Yeppers.

Though I kinda wonder when and how the word came to be viewed in a negative light... It would be interesting to look into the Oxford Dictionary (full version) and get the complete history of the term. But, alas, the online OED doesn't give anything but the definition.

Me too - 'Neon' = my car, a 2000 Chrysler Neon, 'grl' = I'm a girl. I remember not only people's cars, but their car's license plate - I have hundreds of them in my head. Here's my car: (This is a cool site to check out if you haven't seen it before, tons of cars and it doesn't cost anything to have your own page.) http://www.cardomain.com/ride/636215

It is apart My name and My favorite number 729 so that is how I came up with My user name.(kevv729)

Mine comes from a time when I was on vacation and was reading Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin, and stared at the bathroom wallpaper and started seeing ghosts and puppies in it - except for this one weird stretch of wallpaper. I spent, I don't know, 15-20 minutes or something puzzling over the problem, protesting that the problem stretch of wallpaper was the same as the wallpaper I was seeing the ghosts in, and looking over and over for those ghosts but not seeing the ones I was looking for (although I did see a different set of ghosts)...until finally I compared one small grape-bunch on one "normal" piece of wallpaper to a grape-bunch on the "abnormal" piece, and discovered that the "abnormal" piece was upside down compared to the rest.

In that experience, I demonstrated two of the chief weaknesses associated with neurotypical perception that I'd just read about in Temple's book: readily seeing big pictures that aren't there, and failing to readily see small key details that are there.

So my user name is a tribute to my perceptual style...as an NT, it is deep my nature to see the world as "ghosts," vague insubstantial projected hallucinations.

'worsedale' is my name plus the e after the s which wrongly found its way there

I had wondered why you choose that name.

Actually sophist means "expert" or "clever person" in the neutral sense and "trickster" in a more pejorative sense. It doesn't come from the Greek sophia as often thought, but sophizesthai, which means to play tricks or be clever. The Sophists wre a Greek school of thinkers who Socrates explosed for their fallacious and misleading claims and arguments, and so over the years, seeing history favors Socrates (and in this cases, rightly so), the term has taken on the meaning of someone who tricks and misleads people through clever and articulate, yet false arguments or oration. Normally it is not used in a positive sense.

As for my username, that's my name, Cade. Not very interesting.

It's a projection of how I view myself.

Actually, I was trying to sign up for a mail account as "meanmistermustard" in homage to the Beatles song "Mean Mr. Mustard" but as it was taken the name suggestion bot came up with medianmistermustard contrasting mean and median in the statistical sense and I just thought it was a clever and fitting name. (even if not clever on my part)

I love star wars and my favorite character is naga sadow. So thats why i made this my name.

You have to be a die-hard Star Wars fan to know who Naga Sadow is.

Mine's from a book by Garth Nix. Er, it's the name of a bell/ghost kinda thing. Well a bell named after a person who is now ghostlike. Man it's too hard to explain just read the books

Mine was the first thing that came to mind. I try not to think about these things too much....

I always pick weird names though... and they have to be fun.

mine is "star-spirit" in my own language

mine is an annotated passage from an old book I am fascinated with that's about 900 years old