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[janetlin]

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?

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[allova.livejournal.com]

I pulled my LJ literally from thin air a decade ago. I was 12 and playing SimCity and I wanted to build a new city, and I couldn't think what to call it, so I tried pronouncing a whole bunch of random created words. The city ended up being called "Zesphic Allova"

Then a few months later, I was signing up for something on the internet, needed a username, and since I quite liked the sound of Allova, I used that. And since then, I've used that as my handle pretty much everywhere.

As far as I was aware, it doesn't mean anything but googling it, I see it's a type of fabric as well as an Indonesian first name. Huh. (But I'll point out that my LJ is the very first hit when googling 'allova'!)

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

Is it Allova or Alluva or allOva?