My name comes from a basic unit on Starcraft. The team I was on all used names of units, Ultralisk, Zealot, Dragoon, Zergling, SCV etc, so I picked this one. It just carried over to everything else.
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So... why that name?
It all started out in Japanese class in the 6th grade (wow, 4 years ago), when we were trying to katakanafy our names. My real name is Margaret, which can go several ways. Magareto, Marugareto, Marugaretsu… that's where Maru came from. I also love the maruchan brand of ramen noodles. And "maru" means circle in Japanese. I like circles, because pies and pizzas are circles, and pies and pizzas are also delicious.
I was many varations of "maru-chan" for a long time, but -chan suffixes are generally associated with crazy annoying anime fangirls. So recently I've just been adding maru to other things.
Most of my friends call me Maru, and when they're excited they have a tendency to repeat the name many times before they tell me what they're so excited about. Thus, marumarumaru.
By the way, Hijuda and DancingChaos, "Ja ne" is an informal goodbye, the Japanese equivalent of "see ya." Sometimes it's "Ja matta ne." I don't know what the difference is. @.@
I was asked to join a CounterStrike clan, so I had to think up something cool (cause CS was THE SHIT back then – I wanted to be remembered). My older brother and I (he's the one who writes ApL) sat in our computer room thinking up names. He went with the whole ancient egyptian motif - "Osiris". I didnt want to copy him and go with "Anubis" or something, so I just looked around the room and looked for cool names on products or in product descriptions. My father buys this generic, supermarket-brand bottled water that is apparently bottled up at "Acadia Springs" or whatever. I saw the name, thought it sounded cool, and have been using it ever since for pretty much everything. If you ever see an 'acadia' lurking around the net, that's probably me.
It's been about 6 years since I picked it. I still like it.
lol… Acadia is a somewhat cool name. But did you know it's actually a place that was in Canada formed by the French around the 1600s I think, I had a history test, so it's fresh in my mind xD
The story behind my name really isn't that interesting, I just wanted a neat Japanese name and I'm usually known as Heaven or Heaven78 on other sites, but I think Heaven was taken so I picked Yuri, I searched it and found out it meant Lily in japanese. Lucky me ^-^, though my favourite flower is the Orchid. :3
The first computer I had email on (way back in the day) was one I pieced together from a few old computers mixed with some new parts. I called the computer "SPAM-BOT". I ended up using the name for my first email address and it just sort of stuck with me ever since. That was back around 1996.
The story behind my name really isn't that interesting, I just wanted a neat Japanese name and I'm usually known as Heaven or Heaven78 on other sites, but I think Heaven was taken so I picked Yuri, I searched it and found out it meant Lily in japanese. Lucky me ^-^, though my favourite flower is the Orchid. :3
I thought Yuri meant lesbian porn. But as was illustrated earlier, my Japanese is quite rusty.
Well, I used to just use the name 'Parano.' But then I disappeared from the internet for a while and started exploring other sites, so I stuck 'Reincarnated' in the front. XD;
The Parano part, as some gamers may have guessed, is the name of a character from the game Galerians:ASH by Enter Brain. But, over time, it feels like it's become my own personal name also. XD;
Doesn't 'Ja ne' mean goodbye in japanese?
Beats me. I don't know Japanese. I just noticed that in subs, people say something that sounds like that when they say goodbye. Oh well.
Yeah, ja ne does mean goodbye. x3 Sometimes just 'ja' can be used as 'bye', and 'sayonara' is the more formal 'so long' or 'farewell.'
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