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probu
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada36 Posts
May 17 2010 02:33 GMT
#1
So I'm thinking about what my nickname should be for when SC2 releases. A lot of the progamer names seem really random (Stork? Luxury? Movie? The fuck?) but something about them gives them a great RTS/starcrafty feel. Do they turn to a random page in their favourite book and take the 54th word as their name? Who knows.

I'm exploring what some English words sound like in Korean. I know the word "dagger" sounds like "bisu" not surprisingly, but I'm having a hard time finding a translator and a quick search of TL revealed about a thousand "help pls rly wat this korean say 2me" threads and not english-into-korean-word-that-i-can-read-aka-not-a-little-symbol-type translator tool. Anyone know how to say "brown" or "quick" in Korean, or can link me to a translator? I'm not looking for the symbol, but the phonetic English alphabet version (like "bisu" is to "dagger").

Whether or not you can tell me those words would be great, so thanks in advance. I'm also curious if anyone knows how or why some progamer names are what they are, and what methods people here use to choose a nickname.
ghen
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1356 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-17 02:38:45
May 17 2010 02:36 GMT
#2
http://translate.google.com/#en|ko|brown quick

I pre-set it for you too..

Hit the box for "show romanization"

This thread should have been a blog post.
Kadoka
Profile Joined October 2008
United States82 Posts
May 17 2010 02:38 GMT
#3
I think
quick: p'ali
brown: galsaeg

Try google translate for more romanized korean translations. http://www.google.com/ig

I don't think this thread will be up long
asdf
Mykill
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada3402 Posts
May 17 2010 02:38 GMT
#4
pick whatever.
its an alias for a reason. you can always change it...
mine on TL is based off my name. i shouldnt be hard to guess what my name is.
[~~The Impossible Leads To Invention~~] CJ Entusman #52 The problem with internet quotations is that they are hard to verify -Abraham Lincoln c.1863
Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
May 17 2010 02:47 GMT
#5
(P)Movie's actual Korean name means "movie", afaik.
Kerotan
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
England2111 Posts
May 17 2010 02:47 GMT
#6
I'm a MGS fanboy, hence my handle.

Alot of the Korean ID's came from a period where every one was making one word English ID's and it became fashionable to do so. e.g. Nada, Reach, Yellow, January, Autumn, July. Progamers like themarine and neo_g_soulkey are the exception rather than the rule.
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lowbright
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
308 Posts
May 17 2010 02:58 GMT
#7
nada isn't an english word

and neo.g_soulkey is a relatively new player
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FortuneSyn
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
1826 Posts
May 17 2010 03:02 GMT
#8
I think "Paper" is a great name.
Wings
Profile Joined January 2010
United States999 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-17 03:06:54
May 17 2010 03:04 GMT
#9
On May 17 2010 11:36 ghen wrote:
http://translate.google.com/#en|ko|brown quick

I pre-set it for you too..

Hit the box for "show romanization"

This thread should have been a blog post.

lol you're a nice guy

Anyway, are u looking for sth that sounds good in korean and english? Cuz that's hard... good luck lol, there aren't THAT many that I can think of off the top of my head.

edit:
On May 17 2010 11:47 Kerotan wrote:
I'm a MGS fanboy, hence my handle.

Alot of the Korean ID's came from a period where every one was making one word English ID's and it became fashionable to do so. e.g. Nada, Reach, Yellow, January, Autumn, July. Progamers like themarine and neo_g_soulkey are the exception rather than the rule.


Nada in Korean means "It's me", I'm relatively sure that's how it came into being.
The probability of Kim Carrier getting all those predictions wrong is similar to the probability Flash loses a TvT. Kim Carrier MUST BE a genius. His only big mistake... STORK.
probu
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada36 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-17 03:09:31
May 17 2010 03:08 GMT
#10
Hit the box for "show romanization"
Oh wow, I had no idea that feature existed. Thanks!

Mykill - Michael. Nice

are u looking for sth that sounds good in korean and english?
Yeah exactly. Bisu is an amazing name in English and it's not even a word...
SilverSkyLark
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Philippines8437 Posts
May 17 2010 03:20 GMT
#11
well, I open the dictionary then look for a word, if it aint cool enough I'll go look for an anagram of it.
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Jugan
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1566 Posts
May 17 2010 03:23 GMT
#12
Jorge w. Bosh is an awesome name too! :D
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love1another
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1844 Posts
May 17 2010 03:32 GMT
#13
RainbowTrain
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synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
May 17 2010 03:32 GMT
#14
Latin dictionary imo
:)
shindigs
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4795 Posts
May 17 2010 03:33 GMT
#15
Your play will make your name awesome, not the other way around.
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awesomeopossum
Profile Joined February 2010
United States72 Posts
May 17 2010 03:35 GMT
#16
Just take one from one of day9's casts.

For example: apparently rekrul once got knocked out of wcg by the fearsome monkey_balls.
we can plant a house, we can build a tree
Shenron
Profile Joined May 2010
United States105 Posts
May 17 2010 03:39 GMT
#17
MarshMellow
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. ~Epicurus
Nal_rAwr
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2611 Posts
May 17 2010 03:48 GMT
#18
lol so you want your opponent's to think you're a cool hip young korean RTS pro with a dashing sense of aliases?

Brown - "GalSsaek"

Quick - "Bballi"
Nony is Bonjwa
EpiK
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5757 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-17 03:59:06
May 17 2010 03:49 GMT
#19
On May 17 2010 12:48 Nal_rAwr wrote:
lol so you want your opponent's to think you're a cool hip young korean RTS pro with a dashing sense of aliases?

Brown - "GalSsaek"

Quick - "Bballi"


aNal_rA

On May 17 2010 11:33 probu wrote:
I'm also curious if anyone knows how or why some progamer names are what they are, and what methods people here use to choose a nickname.


Guemchi:

his full ID is actually Sea.GuemChi, which basically reads like the korean word for spinach (see gumchi)
Nal_rAwr
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2611 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-17 03:50:50
May 17 2010 03:50 GMT
#20
On May 17 2010 12:49 EpiK wrote:
aNal_rA

pe
Nony is Bonjwa
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