Pronounced My-Key-On: by Michael Quach

Gasp! Greetings and welcome to my website. Nothing much here future content will include editorials, reviews, and general thoughts of the day.

Now onto the title of this blog, “Pronounced My-Kee-On.” Quite an odd title isn’t it? Well the alias I’ve been using for since 1998 in the online world is “mikeon.” I was a kid at the time, trying to think up a name for a multi user dungeon (MUD) game called Arcane Nites. I wanted an RPG sounding them and “mikeon” sounded RPGy at the time and thus, “mikeon” was born.

It wasn’t until I started playing in games where voice communication started to emerge that I began to realize “hey, everyone is pronouncing my name wrong! They’re calling me “mike ON” instead of “my-kee-on!” It never really bothered me though and I just went with whatever people would call me. When asked how to pronounce the name, I would reply the correct way. Although, I have to admin, I have no idea what kind of tonal sign I should but on top of the name to make it easier to tell it’s not “mike ON”

Perhaps with this blog, things may change.