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[Tom Henrik]

Welcome, indeed

[PrejudiceSucks]

Welcome to the AR forums, Tanaka - I hope you enjoy your stay

[Japofran]

Thank you folks, you're some jolly kind fellows.

By the way JO, right you are. The first strategy game I played was turn-based Civilization. I've played RTS as well but I find myself pausing the game every second. Guess that would be annoying if I multiplayed. Besides I don't quite like the "Age of"-like games, it was okay at first but afterwards it became the same game once and again.

[Juni Ori]

Excellent! I tried Age of Empires when it came out and I still regret I wasted time with that... I actually tried to find out what was so great in it and I spent time to it, but no, I never found it out.

[taikara]

Welcome to AR, Tanaka

(btw, does anyone else think "Shavier" sounds like a Hypello saying "savior"?)

I knew I recognized that avvie, but I spend more time here than AB, so I didn't connect it

[DeathDude]

Ah bit late but still welcome to AR Tanaka.

[A. J. Raffles]

taikara, on Jun 25 2006, 04:18 PM, said:

(btw, does anyone else think "Shavier" sounds like a Hypello saying "savior"?)

Oh, is that how it's pronounced? I always thought it was pronounced with one of those Scottish/German-sounding ch-sounds...

[Japofran]

My name's meaning has nothing to do with "saviour" but okay that sounds cool.

"Shavier" should be read like most non-english speakers would. Let me clear doubts for those who know international phonetics simbols. "Javier" in Spanish is pronounced /xa'bjer/. The [b] instead of [v] is not a typo, in Spanish both phonemes merged, and Raffles is more or less right about the [x]. The Old Spanish version "Xavier", which seemed to me easier to English speakers, would be pronounced /ʃa'vjer/.

By the way I've got a second name: Andrés > Andrew. Much easier I guess for English speakers, only that I never ever use it.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Tanaka, on Jun 26 2006, 03:56 AM, said:

My name's meaning has nothing to do with "saviour" but okay that sounds cool.

"Shavier" should be read like most non-english speakers would. Let me clear doubts for those who know international phonetics simbols. "Javier" in Spanish is pronounced /xa'bjer/. The [b] instead of [v] is not a typo, in Spanish both phonemes merged, and Raffles is more or less right about the [x]. The Old Spanish version "Xavier", which seemed to me easier to English speakers, would be pronounced /ʃa'vjer/.

By the way I've got a second name: Andrés > Andrew. Much easier I guess for English speakers, only that I never ever use it.

Xavier is a perfectly excellent name. In fact, I would go as far to say that it is spiffing.

[DannyMc252]

Even if us English say "Eggs-avier" ^^

[PrejudiceSucks]

DannyMc252, on Jun 26 2006, 04:22 PM, said:

Even if us English say "Eggs-avier" ^^

Urmm only in X-men, and they're Americans.

I would say something like "Zavier".

[A. J. Raffles]

Of course we could just shorten the name to "Eggs"...

[Japofran]

Oh my...

[Minti]

a1s, on Jun 22 2006, 02:46 AM, said:

Minti, on Jun 16 2006, 08:08 AM, said:

I'm not Minna, I'm Minna Mari.

just out of curiosity, do you have some sort of short nickname? (I have this theory you see, that every person can be Identified (offence free) with a 2 or 3 syllable nickname, anything longer is hard to pronunce all the time and gets shortened)

Sure, Minti is one of them. And Min is used lot too.  

Thanks for the warm welcomes everybody!

[Tulac]

Isn't Xavier Latin American, and Javier Spanish, sort of like Mexico - Mejico?