h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Don't be sorry -- twenty's a great age to be ... regardless of what the counselors say

Oh I'm not sorry that I'm twenty, I'm sorry that you were a little off in estimation. But like you said, this analysis was what the name connotates to you, you weren't trying to "read" me or whatever. Anyway I have got to go to bed before I fall asleep here.

Hey, would someone mind analyzing me?

I would, but I'm not the official analyzer and I'd probably make a fool out of myself. Magnolia Lotus will, though and they turn out pretty great!

Cool.
*sits unbotrusively, humming while she waits*

Hi -- give me a day, please! I'm away from my base camp and so cannot take the usual self-indulgent approach to analysing names (all day, all night ... no, just joking) Maybe MyRedDice will feel like taking over? He did a rather thoughtful analysis of MY name ..

*Bzzzt* Please hold. The operators are busy and will be dealing with your request shortly. You are a valued customer.

Ok, let's try it...

Penguin Girl. There's hints at superhero status here, to go alongside Bat Man, or Wonder Woman. "X-Girl" on a superhero implies youth, probably 10-20, and the comic book imagery backs that up. However, it being a superhero ironically based on penguins, rather than more conventional animals, makes me think that the owner is at the more grown-up end of that age range, or at least feels she (It's always a risk naming a gender, but what the hey...) is. "Penguin" sounds comical, as well as being a funny animal in itself, so Kudos for the (unconscious?) choice...

I think the animal chosen being a Penguin is telling, in a way. Here is a girl/woman who reckons she has superpowers, but has a face that could only launch perhaps a few dozen ships, maybe more. Not ugly, I don't think, but happy to fight crime and rescue hostages in a different way, and doesn't care who knows.

Capitalisation is conventional, which again hints at maturity, either inner or outer. And Girl is miraculously spelt correctly, rather than with repeated Rs (*shudder*). Yeah, I'd go for an individual - not someone about to crawl to peer pressure, though that may be my irritation at not being able to roll Rs talking...

*sneaks in*... Can you do me? *waits in happy expectation, twiddling the various pieces of electronics he stole from his lab on the BigC*

Good show MyRedDice. A fair interpretation, however, I'm 14, more in the middle of the age range than the upper end of it. I don't read comic books but have a close friend who's been raised on them and have been thoughroughly indoctrinated. As for the penguin part...a wonderful description. you've got a better idea than I do, that's for sure.
-leah

"Njan" - four letters... you got any other usernames around, on different systems, etc - it'd give me a little more to work with...

if not, I'll crack on...

Thanks leah - it's the compliments you get that make doing this so much fun...

--Luke Rhinehart

hmm.... *thinks*... well, I'm quite interested in what you can make of Njan. ... but if you want, my AOL instant messenger ID is oberon the dark...

I'll do njan! I'm probably pretty bad at it though...
I seem to recall that you were njan prince of darkness at one point, right? Now njan, expecially the j, makes me think of india, or some other place with a long tradition and majesty about it. The name is simple, which makes me think you enjoy projecting an aura of dark power about you. My guess from this is that you enjoy reading some sort of fantasy books. You've probably encountered Eddings or Jordan at somepoint. Those have been my main forays into fantasy. I'm not well versed in the genre. Because of this interest in fantasy, I would guess that you are somewhere within the age range of 12-25. Howeve, it's hard to tell. YOu could be like my uncle, who's 50 and reads exactly the same books as several of my friends. The use of Oberon leads me to think you've read some shakespeare, specifically midsummer night's dream. I wouldn't be able to guess where you read it, but you must have enjoyed it somewhat to use the name as an SN. So we have a teenage to early 20s fantasy reading person who may like shakespeare.....it is a short nickname, and this is hard.
-leah(which is not my real name. interpret that!)

Actually, I'm more of a sci-fi person than a fantasy person.. Although I used to read a little fantasy, I'm an Iain-M-Banks-ite.. and the name Njan is somewhat like the sort of thing that a culture person would have as a middle name... The reason that I chose Njan in the first place was that it doesn't mean anything, which is why it's hard to analyse. ... The age range is correct... and yes, I _do_ like Shakespeare. Although my favourite play is not Midsummer Night's dream (although that is one of the best)...

Yay! I wasn't _too_far off. In my experience, fantasy and science fiction fandom can run together a bit. I'm more of a science fiction person myself as well.

heh - doesn't mean anything, huh?
(aside: personally I'd have gone for fantasy too - thinking especially of Pern, aside from the general character of the name. I bet there is a sci-fi/fantasy person called Njan, and that's where the name came from, albeit subconsciously. However...)

Njan - makes me think of "Nyet", etc = no. A degree of stubbornness, standing firm against a changing world, perhaps? Something of a cynic - not someone who would normally come to a username analysis forum... However, it's quite a soft word - no hard consonants involved... short words can often be very choppy and direct - often implying bluntness... but I think this case is the exception that proves the rule.
A fondness for short names implies a desire for simplicity - it's a minimalist name - favouring function over form. I can almost hear the user saying "well - it gets the job done, doesn't it?" - though perhaps in a more subtle manner... It could also imply a desire to hide - it's a short step to such intriguing usernames I've seen such as "_" - which of course, intrigue more than they conceal...

It'd be interesting to know how the user would pronounce it - I've been running through the above thinking of it like "Nyaan" - long a, nj= soft ny sound. If you think of it as "N'jan", with a short a and a glottal stop between the N and j, then you get a much different impression, which really heightens the effect of the short name - real *pow*, *biff*, *wham*, stuff. Almost scary - but I think my initial pronounciation was the intended one - the shape of the letters just isn't aggressive enough to support a N'jan...

No, there's none. I made it up... when I used it in an RPG, I even thought of a surname (Droujast)... *smiles*

Hmm... I'm stubborn and non-confirmist, but I don't know about standing firm against a changing world. I'm a pretty up-to-date person, I'd like to think.

Yes, it's meant to be soft... as to simplicity, it's meant to be neither simple nor complicated. Although in writing, it's simple, it generally takes several minutes to explain how to pronounce it.. although yes, you did get it right first time, although the 'a' is pronounced unlike any normal a.. it has a subtle hint of most of the other vowels in it, and is hard to explain.

Now I'm stuck staring at the Currently Online pop up . . . It's not so bad as when I got in the habit of analyzing all of the mail boxes I passed while driving. It sounds really stupid but it's strangely compelling.

Just to add another use for name analysis, when I play Ultima Online (online roleplaying game) I make some pretty hasty judgements on whether someone is likely to annoy me on a regular basis that way. For some reason people who will beg persistently have all lower caps and spelling errors in their names. (My theory on that is that these characters are played by dogs, who as we all know will beg fruitlessly for hours and can't spell or hit the shift key while typing. Hmm. That and maybe characters with names in all caps are yip dogs who discovered the Caps Lock key) That and I just avoid people with the words pimp or bitch featured in any configuration. What I find odd is that lonely people will single me out as an actual female by one of my characters' names. (Nidra)

Okay. I've now shared a little. Please, please analyze me. I've just come up with this name and I'd like to know what I was thinking

Sincerely,
Margravine Palavar

I think I'll let MyRedDice field this one...He's much better at it than I am, and I haven't eaten breakfast yet.