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Not necessarily wrong though!

https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt

Login names are often used as nicknames, pronounce[d] if possible and spelled if necessary. My wife and I met at MIT, and she still calls me "Gliss", because my login name was GLS. "Guy" sounds very weird to her.

Some are more than just logins or nicknames, they're handles. I will never use substack.com* after they stole substack's handle.

* as a publisher or a subscriber, and to some extent even as a reader

My thoughts go to the person in my college whose login, based on their initials, was `acne`.

I do too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25061563

Oh man I just got this too. Dan G. Jeez. I'm going to pretend I didn't see that, but what a minor change to something I interact with every day. Neat!

It's like that Seinfeld episode. https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/Donna_Chang

There's no way I'm ever going to stop pronouncing it "dang!". I'm sure dang knows this.

"Dang" is a last name some people have, I assumed it was that for a long time

Same here - reminds me of a lawyer named “So Sue” - cannot find the reference but I thought it must be interesting seeing her name on legal papers.