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

Hi, there!

Nice to meet you. Dax hasn't been around much recently but when she apperas, I'm sure you'll be added to list.

Meanwhile - Do you prefer or ?

Hi

Well, I'm in no hurry, so I don't think others should hurry on my account.

Come to think of it, I am actually in a bit of a hurry, since I have two assignments I should finish and return, one tomorrow and the other on friday, and the friday one is still in planning stages

I'm afraid I don't much prefer coffee or malts, but thanks for the kind offer. You wouldn't happen to have any ?

Hi everyone... This is actually Dax speaking here. I had the unfortunate thing happened to me that my computer was actacked by a virus and I lost everything on it. So now I have e new computer, but I can´t remember my h2g2 logon and password. I would have to start from scratch, so until I get my page back there is not much I can do in here.

I just wanted to let everyone know why I had gone missing.

Dax

Whoohoo! Welcome Yatsuni! We are getting stronger every day! Today h2g2 - tomorrow the world!

*arrives with the for Yatsuni*
Here you are!

Oh, Dax!
You look terrible...
I hope you'll get better soon.

Thank you Pierce, Hatifnat. It's really nice to get such a warm welcome Dax, sorry to hear of your misfortune. I hope you'll regain access to your account soon.

So how is life with a split personality, Dax?

Or should I ask Researcher 186056?

Seriously though: Have you tried asking the italics to helps you with that problem of yours?

~Quietly sips the good olde moloko, the suddenly almost chokes on it~

YIKES! Poor Drax, how can you bare it? My sympathy goes to you. Need something? Anything? 'Ere, have some nice caffeine infested .

Welcome Finland! Hey, Yatsuni, that almost sounds Japanese. Is it? Kimoto sure is, but I am as Danish as they come.

-Kimoto

Actually, there's something of a pathetic story behind it. Yatsuni doesn't really mean anything in japanese, although I'm sure you can come up with a couple of meanings for the word like two guys or 82. Yatsui and Yatsumi would be real japanese names though.

Anyways, back then I started ircing but I was using the nick Ender, along with probably 25 other people, and thus I often encountered a messega "Your nickname needs to be unique." So being the smartass I am, I thought using the nick 'Unique'. Except someone else had been as smart as I was. Since I had started studying japanese, I thought what about using the japanese word unique. Now, the correct translation would have been yuitsu. Anyways I decided to be a bit patriotic, and use the finnish version, uniikki, but I used the japanese word in some games and such. Now, I have no idea at which point I transmogrified it into Yatsuni, but at somepoint I must have gone 'boink' or something in those lines, but since I've used Yatsuni so often, it's sort of stuck.

I suppose it is a bit like being called Arthur 'Two-sheds' Jackson

What does kimito mean?

The explanation? Okay, sit back, relax, have some and read on:

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Kirsten, who lived in Denmark and lead a life in blissful ignorance of the fact that not everybody spoke the same language as she did. (Remember that time? We all went through it. Before the world started having any other borders than the ones, shielding the garden from the quiet road outside.)
As she grew up, Kirsten became aware of other nations and other languages, in particular the world-wide tongue called English. Some people who called themselves Abba used it, even if they were Swedes and therefore should have used Swedish. The little girl did not understand this, nor did she understand English. Some of the pronunciations used to sing along with Abba were – in retrospect – abusive at best! School came, for better or worse, and a few years later Kirsten discovered that English was in fact a language that one could learn to master. To use as if born and raised with it.
Kirsten embraced the language, even if she did no longer sing along with Abba. Now the time called for Culture Club, Bruce Springsteen and A-Ha, who were also Scandinavian but sang in English.
Time went by and the fascination in English language grew, laying a foundation for the culture of the English-speaking world. Teen-years with a dream of moving to the United States were slowly replaced during the twenties with increasing anglophilia and love of most (actually not all) things British. Literature, reading and writing, working with both the Danish and the English language became more and more of an interest, a hobby and then almost an obsession. Reading rule-books for role-playing games, reading English literature in the original language, consuming volume after volume of books and trying meagre attempts at writing for herself. The novels were not that good, but many articles were printed in the local papers. And so, when the time came for Kirsten to elect her career and place in the working life, it had to be with language, words and English, and so, she became a teacher.
But during this time, another understanding dawned upon her as she discovered the wide world, (and later the World Wide Web,) that the name Kirsten had better qualities in a Scandinavian context than in the rest of the world, where the pronunciation of that name became increasingly intolerable for linguistically sensitive ears.
Being an apt role-player with solid basics from D&D, AD&D and self-made rules, Kirsten had already adapted the slightly feline character of Kimoto Takita, an Asian warrior, whom she still holds dear to the day. (And even considers a graphic novel about, but that is another story…) Exploring the Web and needing a name there that could be pronounced and understood, Kimoto seemed a fair translation of Kirsten – until one day, a Japanese lady “stole” that one, just because she happened to be so named in the real world.
Well, as Kimoto Takita was feline, it became KimotoCat, which I have never ever seen anywhere not related to me.
And that, as they say, was that.

And it still is.

-Kimoto(the rambling)

I got my page back

When I find some time I will backtrack and add any new members, but I don´t really have time now. Just thought I´d let you all know that it´s all good again...

See you later...

Hi Dax!

Good to have you back!

Neko-neko-wai!

Actually, I don't remember a time when I would not have been aware of foreign languages. Some of my earliest childhood memories include watching Battlestar Galactica from the telly. Also my mother's native language was swedish, so I suppose the concept of different languages was always around at our home.

What sort of stories do you other people have behind your names?

Glad to hear you got your account back Dax

*surprised that Dax didn't learn to save her password and Username LAST TIME she lost it! *

Welcome all that I haven't seen before!

Good for you Dax!

Hatifnat=hattifatteners=hattivatit etc
Tove Jansson

I'm not quite sure I got that...

Anyho - Welcome back Dax.

Miau from a sunday morning Kimoto

Okay, I finally found the time to add the new members. So let´s give a nice big, warm official welcome to Daen, Timothy Trax and Yatsuni... Glad you could join us

Do all the newcomers know about the spring meet-up in Denmark next year???

By the way, when is the last time you all checked out the main page??? We have 20 members at this point, this place is a HIT

*You* are a hit, Dax

- check the "Windforce Twelve Abaft The Beam"-page for informations re my nick