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I was messaging Ikkian, about my Screen and real name. I created the name yeas ago knowing 'elne' was modern spelling of Old English word 'ellen' and I was Bapitize as Ellen Clare, though my Birth Cert. has my Named spelled Ellen Claire. He was joking that I am French, since my middle name was French.

Since my maiden name was originally French, I'm from the Northern Ireland branch. I know my middle name is for the St. Clare, due to fact that Catholics are suppose to be given Christian Names.

When trying to name me Ellen my dad was resistant, since he didn't care for the nickname Ellie. I had a great aunt Mary Ellen, so my mom won the argument of what to name me. I don't think they knew the French connection of my Name.

Ny Parents thought they were giving me a good Irish name, but if goes back to Gaul.Elne, Clara and Claira are French Communes, in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. There is also communes named Clara and Claira in Pyrénées-Orientales.

So I guess I'm French-Irish. At least I have no French Canadian in my Family tree.

I won the name Kavek from the Almighty in a game of strip poker.

Jophiel is Hebrew for "Beauty of God".

I am not Jewish. Nor an archangel for that matter.

Nadenu also comes from ye olde EQ1 name generator. I'm not a big fan of it, but I got used to it. I'd probably answer to it IRL. Sad.

I'm thoroughly unoriginal, so there.

I know it just wrong, but I tend to associate Moogle ******* with and being limp wristed Gays, Furries and Cos-players. Not that they all play FFX XI, just that but Moogles are just creepy.

And I been using Elne Clare as an screen name since before the Internet became popular, on AOL old Neverwinter Nights game and still active in the Community through email and FaceBook.

Debalic is a slight alteration of an EQ random name, given to my High Elven cleric.

Barkingturtle was my EQ surname and a pet name the girl I was dating in 2001 gave me.

My real name is Kile, and it was supposed to be Brandon, but my dad was stoned when my mom gave birth and thought Kile with an "i" was cooler.

And here I was assuming you'd left out an l by mistake.

Your late teen friends were way over-literate.

Edited, May 8th 2010 10:27pm by Aripyanfar

Demea is one of the characters in David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which was one of the books that I was reading for class at the time that I decided to change my handle. I chose the name based almost entirely on this quote:



Edited, May 8th 2010 10:02pm by Demea

Bijou is more or less derived from my initials (BJW). When I setteled on it at name change time I was thinking "theatre of the strange" i.e. OoT and Asylum. I did not realize until later that it means "jewel" which would be thoroughly inappropriate, but, there you go.

First name is Brian. Dad is Cherman, mum is Irish. I have brothers John, Daniel, Patrick, and dad thought that was plenty of Irish names, TYVM, and told mom he'd pick the next (me). He (obliviously) picked Brian; mom laughed up her sleeve and that was that.

Brian means strong and/or leader. My limited reseach shows that it derives from byrn, an Ye Olde Celtic/Gaelic word meaning "hilltop" and by association a fortified place. Through ridiculous extrapolation one could say Brian = King of the Hill.

Locke Cole = favorite character from FFVI. Sue me, I made the name when I was in high school :-P MA is for Massachusetts, where I'm from.

Locke has actually become a pseudonym for a lot of things I do, not just on this site. I like it.