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ways_back_room2008-05-22 08:17 am
muji) wrote in ways_back_room2008-05-22 08:17 am
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Daily Entertainment.
Where does everyone's nickname (online or IRL) come from?
I'll do both 'mu ji' and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
neenie, because I get questions about both.
Mu Ji: All Emmy's fault. Literally. In the Mandarin curseword cheat sheet the FF muns use, there's a phrase 'dai ro mu ji' with a listed meaning of 'dumb as a wooden chicken'. Reeeeeally early on in Mal-Lilly relations, Mal taught her that phrase, and the wooden chicken part stuck. I found out a year or so later that if you alter the intonation, it can also refer to a very stubborn person. So it works!
Neenie: There are two explanations for this one.
1. 'Stephanie' is an extremely difficult name to pronounce as a young child with a lisp.
2. A friend of mine and I in high school were bored as hell one day in French independent study, so we tried to pronounce our names backwards. Hers was easy, mine was not. She invented 'Neenie' as a consolation prize, and it stuck that way too.
I'll do both 'mu ji' and
neenie, because I get questions about both.Mu Ji: All Emmy's fault. Literally. In the Mandarin curseword cheat sheet the FF muns use, there's a phrase 'dai ro mu ji' with a listed meaning of 'dumb as a wooden chicken'. Reeeeeally early on in Mal-Lilly relations, Mal taught her that phrase, and the wooden chicken part stuck. I found out a year or so later that if you alter the intonation, it can also refer to a very stubborn person. So it works!
Neenie: There are two explanations for this one.
1. 'Stephanie' is an extremely difficult name to pronounce as a young child with a lisp.
2. A friend of mine and I in high school were bored as hell one day in French independent study, so we tried to pronounce our names backwards. Hers was easy, mine was not. She invented 'Neenie' as a consolation prize, and it stuck that way too.
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