August 22, 2003, 21:53
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What's my name?
I don't know if this is interesting to anyone, or just wierd. My internet pseudonym doesn't mean anything in particular; I just made it up at the age of thirteen by turning my last name backwards and changing a letter. Just out of curiosity, I searched my name on google to see if there were any others out there who went by it. To my surprise, my name is:
-"beautiful, good, perfect" in Indonesian, and the name of a former Indonesian queen
-a river in Uzbekistan
-some sort of train that runs through eastern europe
-the villain of an eighties B-movie titled "Playroom"
-a character in a musical called Starlight Express that was apparently based on/related to Cats(the page wasn't clear)
-the name of yet another fictional character, in a trashy piece of Dungeons and Dragons fanfiction no less.
-a word in several germanic languages whose meaning I couldn't even begin to guess.
Naturally, this makes me kinda jumpy, and since Poly is an international community, I just thought I'd throw out a question:
What does "Elok" mean in Danish/German/Finnish/half a dozen other languages? Do those suomithreadi people happen to speak a language that uses the word? Are there any other meanings I'm not aware of, e.g. is my name Mongolian slang for some kind of graphic sex act?
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August 23, 2003, 08:10
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Inquiring minds must know, dagnabit! Bump!
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"May I be forgiven for the ills that I have done/Friends I have forsaken and strangers I have shunned/Sins I have committed, for which others had to pay/And I haven't met the whiskey that can wash those stains away."
-Brady's Leap, "Wash."
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August 23, 2003, 08:19
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Nothing  If you replace "k" with "s" though it means "Swamp" in old Greek
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August 23, 2003, 08:21
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If you invert it, it means "Arse" in modern Greek. Hey, you ask! 
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August 23, 2003, 08:37
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Well, In finnish "elok" doesnt mean anything. "Elo" means life though and adding two uu's like "elokuu" means august. Adding one more and changing one letter you'll get "elokuva" or living pictures->film,movies.
Elok is a word in archaic finnish and has probably meant life or something similar
Hope this helps.
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August 23, 2003, 10:30
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it's short for electric locomotive in German Norwegian and probably some other languages as well
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August 23, 2003, 10:34
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Aren't you an asskicking Teddy Bear who's helping to bring down the Empire?
Oh, wait... that's Ewoks. Sorry, man.
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August 23, 2003, 11:14
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Lok in swedish is the common word for Locomotive, so eLok would means it's a trendy new eLocomotive. Ellok, ond the other hand, would be an electric locomotive like Gangerolf said.
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August 23, 2003, 11:22
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In English Elok means "geeky internet boy who spams forums". 
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August 23, 2003, 14:01
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Elok? Doesn't mean anything in danish... as in Swedish, lok could be short for Lokomotiv (Locomotive), but otherwise it doesn't mean anything...
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August 23, 2003, 19:58
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Originally posted by Oerdin
In English Elok means "geeky internet boy who spams forums".
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Well, I already knew that! Gimme new information or beat it! Jeez.
Seriously, thanks to all.
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August 23, 2003, 20:57
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Cole, like Cole Porter.
What's my name?
It's not St, it's not Swithin, it's not Winnie or S. or Lee, nor is it Winnie S Lee.
Any guesses?
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August 23, 2003, 21:29
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August 23, 2003, 22:40
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Buck, what the hell is a "trendy new eLocomotive"?
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August 23, 2003, 23:06
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Uh...
Rumplestiltsken?
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August 23, 2003, 23:08
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Zylka.
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August 24, 2003, 08:33
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Originally posted by Gangerolf
Buck, what the hell is a "trendy new eLocomotive"?
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Like, you know, eCommerce or an iMac. Except involving a train. Er.
If you're allowed to add various accents, Élök in hungarian means "Living" as a collective noun, ie. cf. Az Élök = The Living as opposed to The Dead.
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August 24, 2003, 09:13
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'Elokim' is how the religious people spell and say god in hebrew. it's change from 'Elohim'. The funny thing is that 'im' is usually placed in the plural form of words. Probably a polytheistic relic!
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August 24, 2003, 10:52
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Nothing really similar...
perhaps brELOK (more often breloczek)
or ELOKwencja
or E LOK (english a lock in Polish transcribtion)or dundziELOK (whatever that means)
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August 24, 2003, 12:27
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Entrance Lozenges Of Kosherness
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August 24, 2003, 13:53
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Originally posted by geeslaka
Entrance Lozenges Of Kosherness
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