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Getting around to changing more things to fit my new name. The username daphne was already taken, so I thought about renaming my journal something cute and guitar related, but settled on making folks learn to spell my middle name. I know it's tricky, sorry, but if I understood the FAQ correctly, y'all can still use my deadname and it'll redirect you to here even if Eftychia is too hard to spell. ;-) Though I guess I should make a sticky entry to help folks with the pronunciation (eff-ti-HEE-ah).
Slowly working through changing my screen names and account names and bios and links on various sites -- it'll be a project for a chunk of 2019. When a lot of these sites were younger, fewer names were already taken (and "dglenn" is not super-common, though there is some competition for that login; a couple of people with the surname Glenn beat me to it here and there) so I could be dglenn / d'Glenn / DGlenn / etc. most places. Trying to rename things (or sign up for new accounts) now, I can't just be Daphne everywhere ... nor Eftychia everywhere (the 'net is global) ... and I'm not sure how long I want to let a username get (daphneeftychia feels longish to make people type), so I'm going to put up with having several different logins for different places. Still trying to decide what to rename my Twitter account, since daphne, daphnee, and eftychia are all taken there.
But I did at least get an easy email address to remember -- daphne@panix.com (my old address will forward there for a while because I like old friends being able to find me when they pop up in my life again, and not everybody will be up to date).
Ok, now let's see whether this breaks my QotD script tomorrow morning.
Slowly working through changing my screen names and account names and bios and links on various sites -- it'll be a project for a chunk of 2019. When a lot of these sites were younger, fewer names were already taken (and "dglenn" is not super-common, though there is some competition for that login; a couple of people with the surname Glenn beat me to it here and there) so I could be dglenn / d'Glenn / DGlenn / etc. most places. Trying to rename things (or sign up for new accounts) now, I can't just be Daphne everywhere ... nor Eftychia everywhere (the 'net is global) ... and I'm not sure how long I want to let a username get (daphneeftychia feels longish to make people type), so I'm going to put up with having several different logins for different places. Still trying to decide what to rename my Twitter account, since daphne, daphnee, and eftychia are all taken there.
But I did at least get an easy email address to remember -- daphne@panix.com (my old address will forward there for a while because I like old friends being able to find me when they pop up in my life again, and not everybody will be up to date).
Ok, now let's see whether this breaks my QotD script tomorrow morning.
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Are you changing your surname? (Phrasing it this way because the answer might be yes.)Looked at the profile page and have an answer.(no subject)
I considered changing my surname, but as you noticed, eventually decided to keep it.
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(Calluna and I hunted down a few audio versions of Eftychia, just because we like to be as accurate as possible even when not very.)
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I'm pretty sure I do hear a difference between χ and γ but I'm not 100% sure. To me, γ is a faint-but-distinct consonant and χ has the merest ghost of a 'k' or 'kh' sound before the breathy part -- which is counterintuitive considering how hard a sound it is in Ancient Greek, its transliteration as 'ch', etc. It feels like γ lasts a smidgen longer, too. Um, I should Skype one of my cousins and try to pin this down.
Which pronunciation do you use for Bach? I hear everything from 'bahk' to 'bah(k)h' with the Scottish 'ch' sound from 'loch' in between.
There's at least one pronunciation-guide website that has a synthesized voice saying "eff-ti-kee-ah", but all the human-voiced ones I found had it closer to "eff-ti-(k)hee-ah" with that ghost of a kh.
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Which pronunciation do you use for Bach?
Honestly, depends on to whom I'm speaking, but when doing it right, with the same "ch" as in a German "ich".
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Eh, I cut and paste. The person you should be worrying about typing it is you, says the person with the 10-dot-3 character domain name. Also spelling it over the phone to customer service droids. And entering it on a smartphone soft keyboard.
Still trying to decide what to rename my Twitter account, since daphne, daphnee, and eftychia are all taken there.
daphne_e?
daphneea?
dearthur?
ETA: Ooh, and also, because I'm slightly evil like that, it dawns on me to wonder how UTF compliant the birb site is. Like, sure, daphne is taken. But is Δαφνη?
I can certainly see why you might not want to do that. But I'm now curious.
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I was wondering the same thing about using Greek for Twitter, and am quite tempted, but anybody without a Greek keymap installed would have no other option that copy/paste, which would be a problem if they were getting the info off a card or something, instead of email or the web.
I dunno, still kinda tempting ... (And apparently neither Δαφνη nor δαφνη are already claimed.)
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BTW, for my first several years in fandom I thought your last name *was* Glenn, because all I ever heard was "D Glenn". :-)
On Twitter your user name (that is, what people @-reference you with) and your display name need not be the same. Consider Greek for the display name regardless of what you do for the other -- people don't have to be able to type that. (Can you use dots or underbars in the user name? Is d.eftychia or similar possible?)
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As for finding a handle, as you know, I couldn't use my preferred handle in a lot of areas so I added a color (some areas I could get it because I started using it so early in the modern net age). Other short words that work for you could also be used (e.g. GuitarDaphne or FilkDaphne or RedDaphne or DaphneMusic or...)