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I was thinking about making a new blog, maybe using an anagram of my name for the blog title. Here are the possibilities:
Burial Vim -- has a nice dark flavor, but how many people actually know the meaning of "vim"? I never heard it before
Via Librum -- has a nice Latin sound, but it's probably gramatically incorrect. could someone please check this for me?
I Rival Bum -- uhm... I guess I'll skip this one...
"Viliam Bur's Blog" opens up a lot of options, including Bug Limbo Rivals, Bogus Viral Limb, and Orb's Vigil Album. If you're a fan of Virgil you could work his name in there.
I think the anagram-of-your-name thing works better if you're called Scott Alexander than if you're called Viliam Bur.
If I'm interpreting the Perseus output correctly, "librum" is OK as genitive plural of "liber" whose main meaning is "book" -- though the usual form would be "librorum". A blog title that means "the way of books" sounds workable.
I suspect most of your readers will be more familiar with another meaning for "vim". Someone whose interests are just the right combination of geeky and literary might like "Vim Burial" as a title, but I'm thinking that if that were you you'd have said so already.
There are some other interesting words containing in your name's letters -- brumal, Malibu, lumbar, album -- but none of them seems to lead to a coherent phrase.
It also helps if you're willing to drop an 'n'.
It also helps if you're willing to use a pseudonym.
Indeed. As he puts it:
But adding or dropping letters is probably harder to get away with when you have a shorter name.
Or Hyaena Hell Infusion.
I think Via Librum is the best, and the phrase seems to occur in actual Latin. However, it is already in use which may or may not be a problem for you.
In unix-ish circles "vim" is the name of a text editor. If you want to bury vim, you're probably a fan of emacs X-)
Am I the only one who loves gedit?
Apples, oranges, etc. Vim and Emacs are supposed to (partially) replace the entire userspace of an OS, they're much more than just text editors/IDEs.
I consider myself a vim poweruser and this doesn't match my experience. Vim is a great tool and I use it for a lot of things, but it's absolutely not a replacement for bash, screen, Chrome, etc.
It's much truer of Emacs than of Vim.
I think this is part of where the emacs / vim divide comes from.
People tend to imprint on whatever text editors they started with :-)
Gedit is too basic for me, in that style of text editors Sublime is much more full-featured.
Actually (unless I count the time I was a Commodore-using kid or a Windows-using teen *shudders*) IIRC I started with Emacs, though I never really made a serious effort to climb much of its learning curve.
Gonna check it out.
Additionally, if you're on os x, Textmate is basically the other Sublime. While I don't use any of their super advanced features, I've used the two interchangeably essentially without having to relearn any key commands.
You could try to add "I am" or "The" to your name and look what the anagram generator spits out then.
That feels like cheating. (I totally felt like this when reading the anagram explanation of Harry Potter.) I guess I will just use something other than an anagram. It was just a whim of the moment.
Well, if I were impressed by the result, I would use it, but I guess I'm not. (Though, I could use the anagrams later for some purpose other than the name of the blog.)
I felt much more that way about the "Marvolo" than about the "I am".
I think I got it. First I tried some combinations in Esperanto, and was very close to a nice result of "vibrating light," but the available vowels didn't help me get the suffixes right.
So I tried something different. Taking the letters I and V to stand for the Roman numeral four, I arrived at this:
aim4blur
Meaning, "point your attention towards things unclear," the unstated next action being, "shoot."
Virial Bum?
R.V. Bulimia?
I, Viral Bum?
Rum Alibi V? (This is my favourite one.)
Bim Vu, Liar (and then you'd use Bim Vu as your pen name)?
(Brought to you by an.)
Next year's Brazilian fad dance will be called this.
You're welcome.
(actually I was thinking of hobos not butts FWIW)
So far I've only been able to get VR Bulimia, I am I.V. blur, Lumbar VII, and Evil rumba (changing one letter but keeping the same sound).
Have you checked whether it gives a viable anagram in your native language?
VR Bulimia sounds pretty unpleasant, honestly :p
The online anagram programs I tried didn't produce anything useful.
Mail Rub IV :-)