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[schwa]

I had a different user name before Dave's switched formats but I cant for the life of me remember what it was. Prompted for a new name, I went with my lesson material of the day. As a common noun, it arguably doesnt require a capital.

I'm comfortable with schwa. I dont think it carries any baggage & its a unique little word. Can you name another in english that starts with 4 consonants & ends with a vowel?

Please, Lord Guru, may I keep it?

[Reflections]

Jongno Guru, congratulations on your top five! However, for some unknown reason you omitted number six.

6. Posters who have use names that are most likely quite opposite to their real life persona. So, in this particular case, the word guru or 'a recognized expert in a field', roughly translates into 'a wanna be, or someone who never quite got there'.

Hence, they employ names that project the notion of importance or intelligence to an anonymous group of readers who have no chance to check on the 'credentials of the person using such a name'. So, at the end of the day, you have no leg to stand on.

But I guess the internet is also at fault to giving rise to these self-appointed experts. Hence, you can take consolation in that the blame is not all yours...

[Hanson]

Mods, can we make this a sticky?

[flotsam]

[Reflections]

No, flotsam, I think that we should keep number six as is and let it stand the test of time.

My post in this thread was a response or a 'reflection' to the O.P. Hence, I think that the user name 'reflections' provides the reader the opportunity to judge whether or not it is of value via my/the response.

However, a name like guru, projects a false sense of supierority and unfortunately noone can prove or disprove that. Downside of the internet I guess.

Since you took poetic licence and changed my user name from a noun to an adjective, reflections to reflective, then I to will return the favour.

So, if we look back at your original name that you had kindly provided in your first post, 'ideal jet sam', then we are back to the original problem of my rule number 6.

So, do tell, are you an idealist....?

[Xerxes]

My name spelled backwards is Sexrex, which is more appropriate than I knew at the time of just liking the name for its sound value: /Zerk'*Zeez/.

(Sex is such an odd activity, if you think about it. It is so much more crass than the "love" of odes and 17th century foot fetish in poetry)

How about a ban on profanity in the names like, like, Yu_Bum_Suk, or Pak_Yu_Man. My sense of propriety is scandalized!

[Rteacher]

"Rteacher" remains safely within the parameters of the new rules - and is an illuminating beacon at the pinnacle of avatar-nomenclature excellence ...

[Ya-ta Boy]

double post

[Ya-ta Boy]

[flotsam]

[Reflections]

What about number seven?

7. Users who employ the word 'sock' in their retort, because they have nothing else of value to contribute.

That's getting kind of old, isn't it?

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Xerxes]

I just like JongroGuru's threads because they are oddly devoid of usual meathead posters (see http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=54731&highlight= for posts of forgesteel in an unbelievable illustration of said point).

And, the few wanderers are quickly shown their place and the door, in a very unconfrontational way. I'm not elitist, but it's nice to stumble in once in a while.

[Bulsajo]

[The Man known as The Man]