• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    For context: This happened in a German speaking country.

    Friend of mine thought it would be cool to have Bladesaw as a gamer tag, but he was a kid and his English wasn’t great, so he spelled “saw” with German phonetics: “Bladesau”.

    Until he was at some gaming event where he entered some competition and was called up to the stage as “Blade Sau” (Fat pig).

    • Lesrid@lemm.ee
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      6 days ago

      I have a similar story where I thought Hades would be a nice edgy name. But everyone with a mic pronounced it Heyds. So I later changed it to Hadies and for some reason that worked