#whatsinaname — Public Fediverse posts
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Il n'y a pas que le grec et le latin dans (la nomenclature des sciences de) la vie !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrc5LmRCC0Q #histnat #whatsinaname -
Il n'y a pas que le grec et le latin dans (la nomenclature des sciences de) la vie !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrc5LmRCC0Q #histnat #whatsinaname -
Il n'y a pas que le grec et le latin dans (la nomenclature des sciences de) la vie !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrc5LmRCC0Q #histnat #whatsinaname -
Il n'y a pas que le grec et le latin dans (la nomenclature des sciences de) la vie !
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Too-Easily-Misinterpreted Name: An Ant Named Fukuui https://improbable.com/2026/04/21/too-easily-misinterpreted-name-an-ant-named-fukuui/ #WhatsInAName #AnAntByAnyOtheName
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Ok...no tiltar det snart for meg..... Kan nokon snart ta fatt i det faktum at "Peter #Magyar", direkte omsett til Norsk er "Peter Ungarsk"? Kva gjer ikkje DET med oddsa for valsiger? #whatsinaname
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What’s in a name? (2014)
https://sailsandcommas.com/2014/02/03/whats-in-a-name/
#HackerNews #WhatsInAName #2014 #HackerNews #Story #BlogPost
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #487: Torpedo.
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#torpedo #torpedofish #electricrays #nomenclature #whatsinaname #fish #submarines #missiles #explosives #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #487: Torpedo.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #487: Torpedo.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #487: Torpedo.
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#torpedo #torpedofish #electricrays #nomenclature #whatsinaname #fish #submarines #missiles #explosives #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #487: Torpedo.
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#torpedo #torpedofish #electricrays #nomenclature #whatsinaname #fish #submarines #missiles #explosives #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
This our fault, those of us who help define the field, and I apologize. We were duped by science fiction into thinking the Turing Test was valid, it was pompous and overstated but reflected our naive ambitions and the term gained funding attention so who could blame us?
The CORRECT term would be Applied Statistics
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More governmental hoo-hah - courtesy of the lobby industry...
"When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/20/sausage-meat-lobby-europe-plant-based-name -
@botvolution Thank you for watching and pronouncing and letting us know... When signing up for Mastodon our little rodent brains weren't sure whether the system would accept hyphens so we opted for bettersafethansorry... But thankfully our domain name has plenty of hyphens.
https://smashed-rat-on-press.com/
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Claim: "No Kings Is On Its Way To Changing America."
Facts: Yes, for example people with the last name of King are changing it to other last names, to prepare for future #NoKings rallies.
Jerry Ford, who later became president of the United States, was born with the name "Leslie Lynch King Jr." If that was my name, I would also want to change it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford
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Good Morning #Canada
I think I'm starting a semi-regular series on #CanadianCapitals, highlighting the governmental centres of power in each province. Toronto, beloved by all Canadians, was featured last weekend and I'll randomly post about the remaining eleven to fill in between my other Good Morning posts. But today, let's review how each provincial capital got its name. Halifax could have been named Dunktown but was saved by a city founder having a fancy title. Imagine living in PEI's capital if King George III was married to someone named Bertha. Native names are used for many capital cities, like Pile of Bones or Muddy Water. And I think Newfoundland missed an opportunity to have an exotic sounding capital when the original name "Rio de San Johem" was lost.
BTW - I know all Canadians will be cheering for the Hogtown Blue Jays in the upcoming playoffs.#CanadaIsAwesome #WhatsInAName
https://natural-resources.canada.ca/maps-tools-publications/maps/geographical-names-canada/origin-names-canadas-provincial-territorial-capitals -
“When a song or a ballad mentions the name of a river, a town, a spot, a fight, or the sound of somebody’s name that you know and are familiar with, there is a sort of quiet kind of pride that comes up through your blood.”
Woody Guthrie
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"We urge the marine mammal science community to discard the use of the English common name “Cuvier's beaked whale” for Ziphius cavirostris [in favor of] goose-beaked whale (...) because of Georges Cuvier's foundational role in creating and disseminating scientific racism and his misogynistic beliefs. We also ask that marine mammal scientists address the history associated with other eponymous common names and the impact of this history on members of our community."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111%2Fmms.13150
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #434: Alan Smithee.
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#movies #film #alansmithee #filmdirectors #hollywood #moviedirectors #pseudonym #whatsinaname #boxoffice #webcomic #comics #funfacts #facts #moviefacts #trivia #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #313: Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.
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#macaulayculkin #whatsinaname #boatymcboatface #internetpolls #internetissrsbsns #internet #strangebuttrue #actors #nomenclature #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #butwhytho #wtf #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
When I'm abroad, I sometimes have trouble explaining how my name is pronounced. I usually say "Anna, as in Frozen".
Yesterday, I introduced myself like that to a lovely woman, who responded with "Oh! I'm a Disney princess, too! I'm Jasmine!" and I probably have never been happier to meet someone new 🥰
#WhatsInAName #PleasureToMeetYou #Disney #Princess #DisneyPrincess #Princesses #Frozen
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When I'm abroad, I sometimes have trouble explaining how my name is pronounced. I usually say "Anna, as in Frozen".
Yesterday, I introduced myself like that to a lovely woman, who responded with "Oh! I'm a Disney princess, too! I'm Jasmine!" and I probably have never been happier to meet someone new 🥰
#WhatsInAName #PleasureToMeetYou #Disney #Princess #DisneyPrincess #Princesses #Frozen
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When I'm abroad, I sometimes have trouble explaining how my name is pronounced. I usually say "Anna, as in Frozen".
Yesterday, I introduced myself like that to a lovely woman, who responded with "Oh! I'm a Disney princess, too! I'm Jasmine!" and I probably have never been happier to meet someone new 🥰
#WhatsInAName #PleasureToMeetYou #Disney #Princess #DisneyPrincess #Princesses #Frozen
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When I'm abroad, I sometimes have trouble explaining how my name is pronounced. I usually say "Anna, as in Frozen".
Yesterday, I introduced myself like that to a lovely woman, who responded with "Oh! I'm a Disney princess, too! I'm Jasmine!" and I probably have never been happier to meet someone new 🥰
#WhatsInAName #PleasureToMeetYou #Disney #Princess #DisneyPrincess #Princesses #Frozen
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #314: Torpenhow Hill.
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Here's a project that was fun and challenging to work on, and it's good to see the end result online - and if anyone gets to see the Toponomy exhibition in Quebec City, let me know! Text by Julia von Lucadou, tr. by me: https://quebecvilledelitterature.ca/fr/toponymie/heidelberg/
#UNESCOCitiesOfLiterature
#Heidelberg
#WhatsInAName
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #313: Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.
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#macaulayculkin #whatsinaname #boatymcboatface #internetpolls #internetissrsbsns #internet #strangebuttrue #actors #nomenclature #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #butwhytho #wtf #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
If Xi is pronounced “she” does that mean when someone refers to the old bird site as Xitter it is pronounced “shitter?” #MuskIsADumpsterFire #birdsite #XitterIsPronouncedShitter #birdsitemigration #funwithwords #madeupwords #WhatsInAName
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/15/wyrh-j15.html
#DSA #wolfinsheepsclothing #whatsinaname #Progressive #DemocraticSocialism #Subterfuge #Disguise #Subversion #Corruption #Oligarchs #KnowThyEnemy #Boston #Rent #CostOfLiving #Workers #Landlords #RentControl #Homelessness #Home #Homeless #Crisis
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CW: About my name
FiXato
Hello, my name is FiXato.
It started as a handle, or more accurately as a moniker under which I would produce (online) content. As it's become part of my identity over time, I've come to regard it as my name, rather than a nickname though.
In mixed offline and online contexts, or where applicable, I might sign with a combination of my wallet names and online names ¹. While my wallet names are easily found online, I want to be addressed online by my online name, FiXato.Shortened form(s)
People who've interacted with me for a while and who are looking to shorten the name, are free to refer to me as 'FiX'. Just 'F' is fine too, though my preference goes to 'FiX'.
Capitalisation
The odd capitalisation of the name is a stylistic choice, which originates from early logo sketches ², where the X would act as an encapsulating centre glyph.
While the X in my name is capitalised, it does not affect the pronunciation of my name, or indicate the start of the next emphasis.Pronunciation
The closest approximation to my name's pronunciation I've been able to come up with using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is: /fɪks'ɑto/.
If I had to write it phonetically, I'd probably describe it as fix-ah-toh ³ (or fix-ah-tow?).
This would be the preferred pronunciation, though I'm also okay with a more American pronunciation, similar to /fɪkseɪ'to/.
I guess it's similar to how 'tomato' sounds differently between British (/təˈmɑː.təʊ/) and American (/təˈmeɪ.t̬oʊ/) English.The shortened form would simply be pronounced as 'fix'. (Though still written with its F and X capitalised: 'FiX'.)
IPA: /fɪks/Attached is an audio file with a quick pronunciation of my handle using British and American English pronunciation.
Footnotes
¹ The combination of wallet names and online name usually is in the following form: my meatspace ⁴ first name, followed by the initials of my meatspace second and third name, followed by "FiXato" (including double quotes), followed by my meatspace surname.
I.e.$firstName $initial1. $initial2. "FiXato" $lastName.² In the earliest sketches and name choices it was actually 'FiXations', but the balance felt off, and it was already a rather well-used name as well as common English word, which would make searching for content produced under that name rather difficult, so I decided on "FiXato" instead. Of course I later discovered that 'fixato' is also an Italian verb, and that search engines later on decided that it must be a typo (even when explicitly capitalised) of 'fixator', which is a medical device...
³ no, not 'fix a toe'; the 'ato'-part is more a single syllable, and not as separate from the 'fix' part either.
⁴ Meatspace: a term to distinguish the offline from the online life. Meatspace is the aspect of the world where we interact physically. When it comes to my #meatspace name, I might also use the term 'wallet name' instead; i.e. the name that's on the cards and such that are in one's wallet.
No, I don't consider 'in real life' a good alternative to indicate the offline interactions. It has the negative connotation that our online communications are not actually part of the real life, while it merely is just another means of communication.Hashtags
#name #handle #WhatsInAName #HelloMyNameIs #moniker #pseudonym #NomDePlume #penName #pronunciation