janetlin: (Curiosity)
sira_underhill ([personal profile] janetlin) wrote2008-10-10 05:39 pm

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Hey, y'all, I'm curious.

What's up with your username? How do you pronounce it (if it isn't fairly obvious)? Where did you get it from? What does it mean?
settiai: (The Shadows -- saava)

[personal profile] settiai 2008-10-11 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
It's sad that I've already got an .mp3 of me pronouncing my username up on my website, isn't it? Settiai.

The name itself is based on a term from Babylon 5 (Satai, the title that the character Delenn holds at the beginning of the show). When my brother and I were kids, we created a RPG based on the cartoon ThunderCats. My character's title (not name; that was different) was the Settiai, while his was the Sattaia - there's a slight difference in pronunciation (short "e" sound versus short "a" sound; long "i" sound versus long "a" sound). We didn't want to steal the word directly from B5, so we altered it enough for our purposes. Both of us still use the names we came up with back then for that game (Settiai, Sattaia, Ocelota, Leopardzan, etc.) for online-related activities.

[identity profile] janetlin.livejournal.com 2008-10-11 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, yours is one of the ones I wonder about most often. I'm constantly "stealing" things from tv shows and books and just jiggering with the spelling, too.
settiai: (Settiai -- taraljc)

[personal profile] settiai 2008-10-11 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I'm prepared for the problem of people misspelling my name! See? [livejournal.com profile] settiai, [livejournal.com profile] settai, [livejournal.com profile] settia...

[identity profile] janetlin.livejournal.com 2008-10-11 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Tee hee!