Yeah. I don’t know why someone put me down as “additional crew” rather than “person who made the damn thing” but it’s been like that for decades.
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Apparently a Sophia Augustine is a model, and she shows up if you google Sophia de Augustine. Another Sophia Augustine works at one of those vitamin companies that are always pushing their products onto Youtubers to promote their stuff, and spent some time as a Senate student intern before switching jobs to social media oriented stuff. A brief flip doesn’t reveal any exact matches, but there might be with more digging. (Not that it really matters, it’s a pen name.)
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My psuedonym was unique when I picked it and still appears to be unique.
My real name, on the other hand, is shared by quite a few people. None of them have met me, but it looks like it is only a matter of time. (I am on the first page of search, as are four other people who share a name with me).
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The search ranking for my screenname is competing with the Space Quest Omnipedia listing for Pinkunz, so it doesn’t look likely I’ll overcome that any time soon.
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When I was active on Facebook and searched my name I had several homonymous guys in the USA. But I don’t know any famous guy with my name (yet).
When I was active in a programming newsgroup there was a Peter Cheung who signed with “Peter”. When I signed with “Peter”, too, not knowing about him, he seemed quite upset and asked my what I was doing and to please stop it.
I wondered about people named Walker from Texas:
- Walker, Texas ranger
- George Walker Bush
- Amanda Walker, IF author…
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Deeply amusing imagining a time when the internet was so small someone could be upset that someone else named “Peter” was also registered to the same thing. Seems almost quaint now.
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There are a handful of me out there, all as unremarkable as me it seems.
My surname is an uncommon Americanization from the golden age of Ellis Island - seemingly randomly applied to quite disparate countries of origin. For most of my life I had never met another who I wasn’t related to. Thanks to a misdelivered letter, I only recently discovered one 5 DOORS DOWN FROM ME.
My world imploded for a few days there.
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Academia.edu keeps asking me if I wrote this or that paper on a range of various topics. I don’t have the heart to tell them I’m not actually a publishing scientist (I like the fantasy), but I can hardly claim papers I haven’t written.
So I just leave them in the dark…
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afaik, I’m the only one with my legal name other than my grandmother, who my mom named me after. she had a variant on a non-popular name that I’ve encountered nowhere else.
this is a tangent but I knew a kid in high school whose name was Micheal [sic]. when roll call on the first day happened, the teacher was like “so…what’s the story there” and the kid shrugged and said “the doctor couldn’t spell”
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Definitely the best possible explanation.
I used to live in the town of Hazleton, Pennsylvania years ago.
" Hazleton was incorporated as a borough on January 5, 1857. “Hazelton” was intended to be the borough’s name, but a clerk misspelled it during its incorporation, and the name “Hazleton” has been used ever since."
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About special or funny names:
- We had a Tim in my class, and one teacher kept calling him Timotheus, which always caused protests from Tim.
- We had two boys named Patrick in our school, one wanted it to be pronounced English (because he was half Irish) and the other insisting on pronouncing it German.
- We had a boy call Gaylord [edit: in my class, not my son…]. Unfortunately this caused jokes…
- We have a name Armin here in Germany, and we had a Arnim (which is quite rare) in my class…
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How does one pronounce Patrick in German?
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Here’s mine:
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I share a complete name, first-middle-last, with James L. Nelson, author of rousing Revolutionary War maritime adventures. He even looks like me, if I grew out my beard and drank Cutty Sark while sailing the high seas.
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The ex-editor of GQ and I have the same name. I discovered this many years ago when a GQ columnist emailed me about an assignment. I responded that he had me mistaken for someone else. What followed was a melting series of emails, as he was convinced the other Jim Nelson was freezing him out of the magazine, and possibly ending his career in journalism. (It got pretty pathetic toward the end.) Finally, I had him double-check my email address with his intended recipient. I never heard from him again. (My takeaway: the New York writing scene is brutal.) The GQ Jim Nelson even looks like me, if I were to lose half my weight, amputate my legs at the knees, wear $1200 designer suits, and join an Irish punk band.
The homonym game gets more complicated when you factor in the James/Jim/Jimmy/Jamie thing. Two of Bart Simpson’s nemeses are Jimbo and Nelson. It’s endless.
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I was having a hard time picturing what this would look like, then I googled him and actually your take is 100% accurate.
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Like “Puttrick”.
[Some rambling about language: In contrast to English, in German an A is always spoken the same way (long or short). Like the U in the English word “must” (short A in German) or the A in “car” (long A in German).]
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If it makes you feel better, I never gave Academia.edu my first name in grad school, but that doesn’t keep their algorithm from tying to upsell me to a for-cost subscription based on various theories about what my first name might be.
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