My screen name... What the hell is it and how do you say it?!?!
Ok...i hate it when people have screen/nicknames that i do not know how to pronounce and/or have hard-to-remember spelling. Since most (all) of you are probably not Bulgarian, i thought i'd help you with mine a bit. People refer to me as "6aka" or "6" or "akalaka", which is all fine and understandable, since most of the world does not use "6" as a letter. I quite like 6aka actually :)
Anyways... "6" is used by Bulgarians on the Interwebs to replace "sh". The word for six in Bulgarian starts with that sound, so it's become a regular thing to use "6" instead of "sh". It's shorter, i guess :D So if you were wondering how to pronounce it it's actually shakalaka. There was some song a long, long time ago that was saying "shaka laka, shaka laka".... I don't even remember what song it was, but that's where it's from.
I just Googled it though and was surprised and amused to find that it's a
1. Sun Screen and lip care company - www.shakalakahut.com/
2. Part of the Urban Dictionary - www.urbandictionary.com/define.php
3. Bollywood movie - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakalaka_Boom_Boom
4. background for a lot of hilarious videos on You Tube. One of them - www.youtube.com/watch
5. song by Shaggy - www.youtube.com/watch . Although i don't think that's the song that i was thinking of when i picked the nickname. I seem to remember it sounding a lot different and i don't think it was by Shaggy. I might be totally wrong though and it's possible i named myself after a Shaggy song. LOL, LOL, LOL!
6. monster - monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Shakalaka
7. personal blog - shakalakapeter.blogspot.com/
8. some kind of an Indian (i guess) song - www.youtube.com/watch
9.someone that refuses to get out of someone else's car, LOL! - video.yahoo.com/watch/5961103/15509319
10. song by someone named Sweetbox, that i've never heard of. Or at least i don't think i have. Because the part ( and only that part) where the chick repeats "shakalaka, shakalaka, shakalaka" sounds very familiar and i think my screen name might be coming from that song *is confussed and possibly very embarassed* - www.youtube.com/watch
Just another random fact... We, Bulgarians ( and possibly some other Eastern Europeans) also use "4", when typing, instead of "ch". same reason. The word for the number 4 in Bulgarian starts with that sound.
