View Poll Results: How do you prononce my handle?

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  • queetrix

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  • quwaytrix

    7 63.64%

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    The silly English.

    In Estonian every letter is always pronounced the same way, so everything can be pronounced and everything has only one way how to pronounce it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Desolation View Post
    Ditto.
    Double ditto.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dave_Sinkula View Post
    Corollary/piggybacking/thread derailment: how do folks mentally pronounce my last name? I've probably heard 'em all, but now I am curious.

    As far as I care, there are two correct answers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by citizen View Post
    It just rolls off my tongue. Sinkula sounds a lot like Dracula to me but sink replaces the first syllable.
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    I'd say, Kway-a-trix.
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    Queer-tricks.
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    "Dumbass"

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    Quote Originally Posted by ulillillia View Post
    KYOO trihks - that's how I pronounce it. Strange question though, but oh well.
    You're telling people what's "strange?"

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    Code:
    Kill a Trix
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    Thread hijack: Anybody remember Trix cereal? lol.... Reminds me of it when I see his name and his colorful avatar... lol.
    Last edited by MacGyver; 04-28-2007 at 11:49 AM.

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    Doesn't remind me of Trix at all.. the colors are too dark.

    Besides, I've hated Trix since they changed the flavor like ten years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by citizen View Post
    It just rolls off my tongue. Sinkula sounds a lot like Dracula to me but sink replaces the first syllable. Quite an interesting name!

    Did that make sense?
    That'd be my first preference. SINK yoo luh.

    As I remember Mom on the phone doing the spelling: "Sink, as in sink or swim; you, the letter u; la, l-a". Or something to that affect. Much, much later relatives told me the "correct" pronunciation is more like "sin KUH luh".

    I just go by "Dave". And if the phone rings and people struggle with my last name, either me or my wife will toy with them like lepers.



    *No lepers were harmed, nor none should be offended, I hope. I'm just lacking polically correct imagination at the moment.
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    kveh - triks

    sin - koo - luh

    ( And I'm not sure that my writing represents my spelling correcly... )
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    Quote Originally Posted by vart View Post
    kveh - triks

    sin - koo - luh

    ( And I'm not sure that my writing represents my spelling correcly... )
    How about you? Is it "Vart," or are we to use the German V, which would make it more like "Fart?"

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    never meet someone using the last one...
    And no, it is not Vart, just vart

    PS. And if you want the german prononsation, it should be like in the "warte" (Ich warte auf dich).
    Last edited by vart; 04-29-2007 at 12:18 AM.
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    The German V can be pronounced either way, depending on the word.
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    Wow, I didn't realize that there where so many different ways of saying my (user)name.
    Quote Originally Posted by Dave_Sinkula View Post
    Corollary/piggybacking/thread derailment: how do folks mentally pronounce my last name? I've probably heard 'em all, but now I am curious.
    sin-cool-uh
    Quote Originally Posted by maxorator View Post
    The silly English.
    In Estonian every letter is always pronounced the same way, so everything can be pronounced and everything has only one way how to pronounce it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
    Queer-tricks.
    Now I am really considering getting it changed.
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    "Dumbass"
    Butthead.

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