Saying internet names wrong in your head.

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When I read peoples usernames, I must just glance at them, as I pronounce them wrong in my head.

I've been calling "TAFKASH" Tak fish

"Epimonandas" Epidermis

"ghotistix" Ghoststix

"Archmage" Armitage

Just to name a few.

I think it might be associated with actual words or something. *shrugs*

Anyone else like this?

I've never had the problem, probably because I look at how the word is structured instead of sounding it out in my head to remember it. That's probably how I can spell so accurately too.

PS: sorry for my confusing screen name. I know it's hard to spell, I know

The art of a truly great BBS name is to pick something as obscure, difficult to remember and pronounce as possible I don't have a problem with getting them right though either, as I too am incredibly fastidious with the way I read and spell things.

Hard to spell, but surprisingly easy to pronounce! (I know what it means... )

I do that a lot. Adding syllables, dropping letters...and it's not just screen names. Someone signed an e-mail to me "All the best," and somehow I read it as "All the beers"! Makes up got my typiong, I guess.

- Your understanding (if not always comprehensible) Zed

I've also been calling:

"ljbouchard" Litch bird

"TaliDaRadical" Tad radical

"Captain_Brain" Captain Brian

"NeantHumain" Newtin howin

"Anachronism" Anchorism

Don't be offended people, It's just my way of taking in information I guess....

...WRONG.

I am so glad you brought this up. Don't worry Hale bopp. I do this all the time too. I copy and paste peoples names over mostly cause chances are, I will have been reading it wrong.

And I have this tendency with all written words. For example: at the bus depo were my daughter is dropped off and picked up, the counter is devided into 3 seperate companies. When you actually read the back boards, which I am looking at the pretty much the whole time I stand at the counter, it easy to see that they are seperate. I have been there heaps and heaps, but last time was when I actually realized this was so.

Written text is like a code for me, that needs to be desiphered. The other similar thing is when I hear a word I have never heard before, I need to get the person to repeat and repeat and repeat until I have heard it enough times to repeat back. Which I do until I feel comfortable with the new word. EG: At the shop I was volunteering for someone was telling me what brand toilet paper to buy for the toilets there. She was saying Quilton, but I kept saying...."What!?! Pooped On!?!"

ElfMan

Edited once to edit out stuff I didn't even understand!

I work with a girl named Marche (marsh eh).

Today I asked her if she would mind it if I called her marchy because it would be easier to keep straight.

Yeah, I can sort of associate... especially on hearing new words. A lot of the time I ask for the speaker to spell out a word I don't recognize, because, well, my auditory processing disorder often distorts it into some form that barely sounds like what it actually is, heh.

As for written words... I don't have as much problem with them as I do with speech, but my eyes do occasionally play tricks on me nonetheless. One of my favorites of recent was when I misread "nausea" as "Nausicaa"... yeah, I need to lay off the anime for a bit. ^_^

Then there are the times where I know how a word is spelled, but never associate it with the same word as it's pronounced. It took me the longest time when I was younger to realize that the word spelled "facetious" and the word pronounced "fuh-seesh-us" were one and the same, for instance.

Of course, then there are the times I've stared at a word that I knew perfectly well, and my brain just wouldn't parse it right. Like the time I looked at the word "daughter" and thought it must rhyme with "laughter". And then a couple days later I looked at the word again, and wondered why I didn't recognize it.

I do have that too. When i read i will sometime read the wrong word and then, the rest of the sentences makes no sense. This confuse me and i have to re-read slowly, almost letter by letter to find where i goofed.

I always had a hard times with some expressions too. There was an expression that meant "it's raining so mush that you could drink standing up right and opening your mouth" In french it's : "Il pleut à boire debout". I didn't understand the last 3 word for what they were meaning for almost my whole life. I thought it was a specific word meaning that it's raining a lot (aboire-deboue). Only recently i realised the meaning of it. Another one is "tu peux être sûr" meaning "you can be sure". People say that fast and i've always understand "tu peintures" meaning "you are painting". pfff....

You can read the strangest things in the papers sometimes...

...meaning stranger that what's actually in them...

Actually, I'm in the process of getting a new bolier installed in my new house - I read the box for it as "Well-hung gas boiler" at first instead of "wall-hung"...... Made me titter anyway.....

I had the exact same problem as a child with "facade" & "husband".



This is the first time I noticed that it wasn't Tak Fish...
I was just writing earlier about how I have trouble speaking. Perhaps I have trouble reading as well.

Actually, now that I think about it, much of the world fails to make sense to me until more closely examined--not just words.

For me, the Lewis Carroll poem "He Thought He Saw" is secretly just like real life.

"He thought he saw an Albatross that fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was a Penny Postage Stamp". etc...

Good thing no one has thought of having "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" as his/her BBS nickname.

Dang it, I said it again!

I've also beeing calling that ASMAN guy "Ass Man"