NationStates Jolt Archive

No, I haven't suddenly abandoned all respect for spelling, and I didn't forget her name, either. It's just that "smonkeyfill" is more singable than "Smunkeeville".

What the hell am I prattling on about, you ask? Good question. The answer lies here (http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=2BJAJBJL#).

This cool little program takes any piece of text and renders it into a musical Frankenstein, stitching together words and syllables from various pop songs to sound out your message. It's vocabulary is surprisingly deep, although you often have to alter spelling to a more phonetic form to get the correct pronunciation or inflection (for instance, to get "NationStates General", you'd type in "nationstates jinoroll". :p

As a demonstration, I went ahead and found the best ways to pronounce the names of 31 forum regulars -- and the results are quite amusing. To hear the name, just copy the appropriate transliteration into the text box and click the start button. Try not to play too much text at once, though, or else you'll seriously slow down the app.

I especially liked the way Smunkee, DCD, Fass, WYTYG, Ruffy, PM, Steel Butterfly, Ifreann, TBD, Kiryu-shi, and Minoriteeburg turned out. Pretty catchy...

Anyway, here are all the names I got:

Bodies Without Organs: badies without organs
Cannot think of a name: cannot think of a name
Congo--Kinshasa: congo kinshasa
Darknovae: darknofi
Dobbsworld: dabsworld
Drunk commies deleted: drunk commies delydead
Fascist Dominion: fasist doughminion
Fassigen: fasagain
HotRodia: hotrowdya
Ifreann: iffreeon
Il Ruffino: il rowfineno
Johnny B Goode: jonknee be good
JuNii: jumpwhoneed
Kanabia: canabea
Kiryu-shi: keyryyou she
Kryozerkia: cryoserkeya
Lunatic Goofballs: lohnadick gofballs
Minoriteeburg: minoritybird
Pure Metal: pure mettell
Rhaomi: rowme
Smunkeeville: smonkeyfill
Soviestan: sofiesstand
Steel Butterfly: steel butterfly
Sumamba Buwhan: somamba bowon
Tactical Grace: tacticcall grace
The Beautiful Darkness: the beautiful darkness
The Black Forrest: the black forest
The Most Glorious Hack: the most gloryus hatk
The South Islands: the south islands
Upward Thrust: upword trust
Whereyouthinkyougoing: where you think you going

If you want to make a message of you own (http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=2BJAJBJL#), keep in mind that a handful of letters are for some reason not represented. So if you want to, say, make a "v" sound, use an "f" instead. It should be easier to type out a message than a name, as well, since the program's more geared towards reproducing whole words than individual syllables.

Oh, and you can't link directly to the sound file, so just reproduce whatever you typed in here.

Enjoy (http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=2BJAJBJL#)...

:(

I'm not on your list...
*curls up into a lump in the corner and cries*

:(

I'm not on your list...
*curls up into a lump in the corner and cries*

"sell up a"?

Try guessing which songs they lifted different words from. For instance, it sounds like the word "faces" comes from the song "People are strange" by The Doors.

I especially liked the way Smunkee, DCD, Fass, WYTYG, Ruffy, PM, Steel Butterfly, Ifreann, TBD, Kiryu-shi, and Minoriteeburg turned out. Pretty catchy...

Anyway, here are all the names I got:
Why do I neer get on these lists???

*bangs fist angrily*

"sell up a"?

You still forgot me and I've been a regular for longer than...well I'd estimate about a third of those...

EDIT: In fact, I just searched (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/search.php?searchid=670029) and I have quite a few posts from my early days on NS in NOVEMBER 2004 and in GENERAL.

Hopefully that link will work for the rest of yous...

Why do I neer get on these lists???

*bangs fist angrily*

Welcome to the club...

Where am I?!

Oh, thats right, I'm still me.

*cuts self*

:(

I'm not on your list...
*curls up into a lump in the corner and cries*

Thankfully, I take no such offense. Crybaby :p

Why do I neer get on these lists???

*bangs fist angrily*

You still forgot me and I've been a regular for longer than...well I'd estimate about a third of those...

Oh, cool it. There are tens of thousands of users here, and hundreds of "regulars". I only posted the names of people I could name off the top of my head or had extremely high postcounts, and I left off a few people when their names were difficult to transliterate correctly or when I wasn't sure how they would be pronounced.

Sorry.

:(

I'm not on your list...
*curls up into a lump in the corner and cries*

i'm not either....waaaa

Correction: Lots of crybabies! :D

I honestly could care less if I'm a recognized regular. I've been here awhile too.

It is so nice to be forgetable. Means no annoying nicknames or enemies on the forum. I tell you, people like Fassigan and DCD should try to fade in the backround. It hath its benefits.

Then again, drawing attention to myself my not be the smartest tactic so forget I said anything. :p

I tell you, people like Fassigan and DCD should try to fade in the backround.

But that would make the forum so much less enjoyable for the rest of us.

I'm happy for the regulars who still contribute to the forum. It seems like a lot of the people I used to love reading (like H N Fiddlebottoms or Melkor Unchained) aren't posting much anymore.

i want a link so i can mess around with my nation name

"keyryyou she" turns out to be a slightly more accurate version of my name, although it's very choppy. Fun though!

i want a link so i can mess around with my nation name
There were a couple of links in the OP (and I just added more), but here's another (http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=2BJAJBJL#) if you missed those. You have to click the button that appears in the center of the screen to bring up the program.

"keyryyou she" turns out to be a slightly more accurate version of my name, although it's very choppy. Fun though!
*attempts*

You're right! Sounds smoother, too.

*changes list*

That's okay, Sel Appa, neither am I.

My name: Kai-rohn-ee-ah. I would imagine. It's how I pronounce it, though trying that in it didn't work.
Now, I left your name off the list because I just couldn't get it to work. The program for some reason cannot pronounce r's (unless they're part of another word), and it keeps pronouncing the "one" in your name like the number. So, instead of "kai-row-nee-ah" it kept giving me "kuh-ee-*buzz*-won-uh". Not exactly pleasing to the ear...

That's okay, Sel Appa, neither am I.

My name: Kai-rohn-ee-ah. I would imagine. It's how I pronounce it, though trying that in it didn't work.

But they could avoid any annoying people who attack them for their beliefs. Annonymity has perks.

Your name sounds decent as youtraceshea. :)

*warps*

i'm not on the list either, but then i don't believe i'm high profile enough to be someone who'd be immediately thought of when compiling such a list.

anyway, infinnet refoloosun is the best match i can get, but the second word is really mashed up.

But that would make the forum so much less enjoyable for the rest of us.

I'm happy for the regulars who still contribute to the forum. It seems like a lot of the people I used to love reading (like H N Fiddlebottoms or Melkor Unchained) aren't posting much anymore.

But they could avoid any annoying people who attack them for their beliefs. Annonymity has perks.

There were a couple of links in the OP (and I just added more), but here's another (http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=2BJAJBJL#) if you missed those. You have to click the button that appears in the center of the screen to bring up the program.


*attempts*

You're right! Sounds smoother, too.

*changes list*

that be jolt and some one playing with my settings when i was out

Oh, cool it. There are tens of thousands of users here, and hundreds of "regulars". I only posted the names of people I could name off the top of my head or had extremely high postcounts, and I left off a few people when their names were difficult to transliterate correctly or when I wasn't sure how they would be pronounced.

Sorry.

I have twice as many posts as YOU!

Mine is quite cool.
Orlsenhiimerrneβ.
;)

chandelier sounds okish as sheandelyer
ladamesansmerci=ladaymsansmercy or la daym sansmercy?

*is having fun*

Your name sounds decent as youtraceshea. :)

*warps*

Shhh. Annonymity, remember? :)

OK, so I don't usually get annoyed by anything....but, seriously, Johnny B. Goode?

He's not a forum regular. He's a newbie who posts a lot. Same with a few others. Big difference,

il rowfineno

Actually, it's Izilefourn Louen Roughenjo.

ha they can't find a song with the letter p or v

OK, so I don't usually get annoyed by anything....but, seriously, Johnny B. Goode?

He's not a forum regular. He's a newbie who posts a lot. Same with a few others. Big difference,

Yeah, I barely have any posts compared to alot of people who were left off...

OK, so I don't usually get annoyed by anything....but, seriously, Johnny B. Goode?

He's not a forum regular. He's a newbie who posts a lot. Same with a few others. Big difference,
He was one of a few that I just thought of on the spot, mainly because I had been chatting with him on Gabbly for awhile yesterday.

What's with all the insecurity around here all of a sudden? It's not like I was making out a will. I just needed a list of names. And the majority of those names came from the forum Members list, reordered based on postcount.

He was one of a few that I just thought of on the spot, mainly because I had been chatting with him on Gabbly for awhile yesterday.

What's with all the insecurity around here all of a sudden? It's not like I was making out a will. I just needed a list of names. And the majority of those names came from the forum Members list, reordered based on postcount.

There's no insecurity, just that there are a few people I could think of putting in his place. Don't actually ask me for them, because I'm drunk and have forgotten them already.

dinaverg denab erg?

dinaverg denab erg?
Eh... pretty close. Though my attitude towards the whole thing has pretty much soured at this point.

The thing is actually quite interesting...

Ouch. That thing hates the letter P.... I got the second syllable with the word "paid" but the first one's a jerk.

katganistan=catgoneistan or catganistan? I like the first one a bit better.

I couldn't do gravlen well at all.

katganistan=catgoneistan or catganistan? I like the first one a bit better.

I couldn't do gravlen well at all.
It definitely cuts down on the stutter, and gives it a nice British accent. I like it. :)

Ouch. That thing hates the letter P.... I got the second syllable with the word "paid" but the first one's a jerk.

and it hates the letter V too

wiztopia=wis topya. I can't get the "top" to have a hard "o" sound though.

and it hates the letter V too

F should work for V.. and I guess I could use B, but it probably wouldn't sound quite right. Neat program though. Trying to place the songs is fun.

It pronounced my name Shot-ah-gone. BLEH!

(sh-O-tagon)

<--omg postcount devil! >:-)

It definitely cuts down on the stutter, and gives it a nice British accent. I like it. :)

Maybe even catgoneiston to make it match?

I tried:

Katcanistan is a modewaither, and therefor she is oh my God biased!

Pretty funny. :)

I was trying to do nadkor :madcoare, nodcoare, notcoare. I can't get it to sound good.

I see now. At least I was considered. Maybe I've finally become a regular.
I have a mind to ask the mods to delete these threads. It seems like everyone is taking it the wrong way.

I didn't see anything like this happen for the Poster Awards thread. Or the "give a toast" thread. Or any other thread, for that matter.

Now, I left your name off the list because I just couldn't get it to work. The program for some reason cannot pronounce r's (unless they're part of another word), and it keeps pronouncing the "one" in your name like the number. So, instead of "kai-row-nee-ah" it kept giving me "kuh-ee-*buzz*-won-uh". Not exactly pleasing to the ear...

Hahaha. Same thing happened to me. I see now. At least I was considered. Maybe I've finally become a regular.

*jumps up and down* Notice me! Notice me! :D

Mine sucks. Kanabia is so much cooler looking than Canabea, and i'm not quite sure how you'd pronounce the latter.

I tried:

katgoneiston is a modewaither, and therefor she is oh my God biased!

Pretty funny. :)

I like my version better :p

*hugs Rhaomi*

Only insecure people worry about not being in your threads. LOL thank God someone tried my name or I'd be pouting in the corner eating worms!

I have a mind to ask the mods to delete these threads. It seems like everyone is taking it the wrong way.

I didn't see anything like this happen for the Poster Awards thread. Or the "give a toast" thread. Or any other thread, for that matter.

I don't know about the others, but I was just noting the situation, not complaining one way or the other. Calm down, Rhaomi. You'll have a heart attack.

*hugs Rhaomi*

Only insecure people worry about not being in your threads. LOL thank God someone tried my name or I'd be pouting in the corner eating worms!
I appreciate that, Kat. :)Besides, I knew that snubbing a mod would ensure swift bannage! :invisible eek:

I don't know about the others, but I was just noting the situation, not complaining one way or the other. Calm down, Rhaomi. You'll have a heart attack.*takes long Caribbean vacation*

What the hell am I prattling on about, you ask? Good question. The answer lies here (http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=2BJAJBJL#)

I especially liked the way Smunkee, DCD, Fass, WYTYG, Ruffy, PM, Steel Butterfly, Ifreann, TBD, Kiryu-shi, and Minoriteeburg turned out. Pretty catchy...

"Steel Budderflyyy"

*rocks on*

haha...I like this...

Haha...try "You are nothing compared to Steel Butterfly"

It's a lyrical masterpiece hahahahaha

"YOU! are nothing compare-d tooo-ooo-ooo Steel Budderflyyy"

This little toy has some bizarre traits. Out of curiosity, I started entering actual song lyrics, and the results upon trying "Wise men say only fools rush in, but I can't help falling in love with you" were...baffling, to say the least.

I still love you Rhaomi, your blog has found many wonderful things for me.
I don't know what I was thinking with that... It was originally supposed to be a psuedo-political current events thing, but then the holidays came, I realized that 90% of blogs have no readers, and I gave up on it.

I guess the best thing I could do with it now is to turn it into a repository of all the things I've posted here... which is pretty much what it already is. Aside from the midterm election stuff, all of the posts are just copies of threads I made here.

I still love you Rhaomi, your blog has found many wonderful things for me.

and you get to join the ever growing club that has started a thread with my name in the title......even if it is only a technicality.

I just spent the last half hour trying to see how many profanities I could get it to do.:D

I also did this...

Maykneeacts is watching every move you make.

It came out really funky, and just a little spooky.

Fassigen looks wrong...

I, for one, feel slighted.

It's nice to see what our TV licence money goes to - SR's (Sveriges Radio/Swedish Radio) stupid web applets.

Ifran is closer to how you actually pronounce it. It is a real word you know.

On the other hand:
Yay, recognition!

I put in Shandyleeair. Not sure I did that correctly. It sounds okay, but it sounds a bit off.

ladamesansmerci=ladaymsansmercy or la daym sansmercy?

*smacks*

It's French. La-dahm-son-mer-see.

AP Francais PLG!

I have a mind to ask the mods to delete these threads. It seems like everyone is taking it the wrong way.

I didn't see anything like this happen for the Poster Awards thread. Or the "give a toast" thread. Or any other thread, for that matter.

I didn't read those...

Johnny B Goode: jonknee be good

Rolfcopter. And thanks for putting me on your list, Rhao.

Dear God, there's a whole lot of bruised egos in this thread, which is really strange seeing how this isn't even one of the "Lookit me, I'm with the popular crowd!" threads. :confused:
He just took some random names to try out in this thing that he could remember & that were doable, soundwise.


Anyway, my favourite from an artistic standpoint :p is the keyryyou she sample - it actually sounds good! :p

As does the cannot think of a name one because it fits together so well, what with all the mellow strummy-strummy music.

The hands-down favourite in terms of wonkiness is the the beautiful darkness sample - pure awesomeness! :eek: I don't even want to know who is singing the "beauti" part it's so unbelievably bad.

The one with my name sounds like the theme of a schmaltzy 70s' soap opera set on a cruise ship... :p

Dear God, there's a whole lot of bruised egos in this thread, which is really strange seeing how this isn't even one of the "Lookit me, I'm with the popular crowd!" threads. :confused:
He just took some random names to try out in this thing that he could remember & that were doable, soundwise.


Anyway, my favourite from an artistic standpoint :p is the keyryyou she sample - it actually sounds good! :p

As does the cannot think of a name one because it fits together so well, what with all the mellow strummy-strummy music.

The hands-down favourite in terms of wonkiness is the the beautiful darkness sample - pure awesomeness! :eek: I don't even want to know who is singing the "beauti" part it's so unbelievably bad.

The one with my name sounds like the theme of a schmaltzy 70s' soap opera set on a cruise ship... :p

Rhaomi is male?

I, for one, feel slighted.
Yours was another name that wouldn't work. Plus, I wasn't sure how to "pronounce" it (hard or soft "g")? Either way, it's not a name that the program could say easily.

Dear God, there's a whole lot of bruised egos in this thread, which is really strange seeing how this isn't even one of the "Lookit me, I'm with the popular crowd!" threads. :confused:
He just took some random names to try out in this thing that he could remember & that were doable, soundwise.
Thank you!

The hands-down favourite in terms of wonkiness is the the beautiful darkness sample - pure awesomeness! :eek: I don't even want to know who is singing the "beauti" part it's so unbelievably bad.
Hey, don't be dissin' the woman who sang the theme song for Beauty and the Beast! ...whoever she was...

Rhaomi is male?
Yes... what, did you get upset because you thought a girl didn't notice you? :p

(Just teasing... don't have a cow and make a thread out of it...)

Yes... what, did you get upset because you thought a girl didn't notice you? :p

(Just teasing... don't have a cow and make a thread out of it...)

You just seemed female...must be the -aomi...like Naomi...

Correction: Lots of crybabies! :D

I honestly could care less if I'm a recognized regular. I've been here awhile too.

You're telling me, man. :p

OK, so I don't usually get annoyed by anything....but, seriously, Johnny B. Goode?

He's not a forum regular. He's a newbie who posts a lot. Same with a few others. Big difference,

Not a regular? I'm on almost every fucking day, and I have been for a while.

BTW, you earned yourself a sig.

Yours was another name that wouldn't work. Plus, I wasn't sure how to "pronounce" it (hard or soft "g")? Either way, it's not a name that the program could say easily.

Yeah, I figured as much. I just like the word 'slighted'.

Not a regular? I'm on almost every fucking day, and I have been for a while.

BTW, you earned yourself a sig.

"He's a newbie who posts a lot - Nadkor (Yeah, that's referring to me)"

It should really be like this:
"He's [me] a newbie who posts a lot - Nadkor"

:P

"He's a newbie who posts a lot - Nadkor (Yeah, that's referring to me)"

It should really be like this:
"He's [me] a newbie who posts a lot - Nadkor"

:P

I didn't want to put it in the quote, it'd spoil the aesthetics.

I didn't want to put it in the quote, it'd spoil the aesthetics.

True...

No, I haven't suddenly abandoned all respect for spelling, and I didn't forget her name, either. It's just that "smonkeyfill" is more singable than "Smunkeeville".

What the hell am I prattling on about, you ask? Good question. The answer lies here (http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=2BJAJBJL#).

This cool little program takes any piece of text and renders it into a musical Frankenstein, stitching together words and syllables from various pop songs to sound out your message. It's vocabulary is surprisingly deep, although you often have to alter spelling to a more phonetic form to get the correct pronunciation or inflection (for instance, to get "NationStates General", you'd type in "nationstates jinoroll". :p

As a demonstration, I went ahead and found the best ways to pronounce the names of 31 forum regulars -- and the results are quite amusing. To hear the name, just copy the appropriate transliteration into the text box and click the start button. Try not to play too much text at once, though, or else you'll seriously slow down the app.

I especially liked the way Smunkee, DCD, Fass, WYTYG, Ruffy, PM, Steel Butterfly, Ifreann, TBD, Kiryu-shi, and Minoriteeburg turned out. Pretty catchy...

Anyway, here are all the names I got:



If you want to make a message of you own (http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=2BJAJBJL#), keep in mind that a handful of letters are for some reason not represented. So if you want to, say, make a "v" sound, use an "f" instead. It should be easier to type out a message than a name, as well, since the program's more geared towards reproducing whole words than individual syllables.

Oh, and you can't link directly to the sound file, so just reproduce whatever you typed in here.

Enjoy (http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=2BJAJBJL#)...

ahaha that's pretty cool :D
Glitziness comes out great on that thing :p

I didn't get put on the list. :(

*sniffs haughtily*

I'd've preferred "Snob's World", if it's all the same to you...

(just kidding)

Thanks for the thumbs-up.

I didn't get put on the list. :(
About 99% of NSG didn't get put on the list.

The list is not something cool to be on.

It started out as a bunch of random user names Rhaomi could remember and was whittled down by throwing out those that didn't work with the website.

Yeah, I barely have any posts compared to alot of people who were left off...
Oh the inhumanity! :eek:

I was surprised not to see Ladamesansmerci on the list though.

Oh the inhumanity! :eek:

I was surprised not to see Ladamesansmerci on the list though.
Why, EM? Why must you reopen old wounds? Why?! WHYYYY...

But seriously, this is more than a month old.

I'm on teh list! :D:D:D:D:D:D :fluffle::fluffle::fluffle:

I'm on teh list! :D:D:D:D:D:D :fluffle::fluffle::fluffle:

I'm not. :(

I'm not. :(

Aw. :(

Have some fluffles. :fluffle::fluffle::fluffle::fluffle::fluffle:

Fluffling is good for the soul.

Aw. :(

Have some fluffles. :fluffle::fluffle::fluffle::fluffle::fluffle:

thanks, sweetie. :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle:

I think its some inherent human trait that we just love being on a list of some sort.

Anyways...

I was trying to figure out what songs words came from. I got "Dark" is from Thriller, "Ass" is from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust (The line is actually eyes, but it does sound like ass.) Also, "You" is from you shook me all night long.

Why, EM? Why must you reopen old wounds? Why?! WHYYYY...

But seriously, this is more than a month old.
I found it in Johnny B Goode's sig. :p I didn't realize how old it is. :eek: