Thanks, I think.
I hope nobody was walking past my office when I was trying to pronounce this silently to myself.
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| Author: | griff [ Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | GRIFF/GLIFF |
My last name's Griffin, so my nickname has been Griff since college. I was playing a second box once and had logged in as GLIFF, which was an alternate nickname based on how my Engineering Graphics teacher, Jimmy Chang, pronounced my name. About halfway through the game, I realized I was playing as GRIFF with my right hand and GLIFF with my left. I've been playing as GRIFF and GLIFF ever since. |
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| Author: | FrankC [ Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GRIFF/GLIFF |
griff wrote: My last name's Griffin, so my nickname has been Griff since college. I was playing a second box once and had logged in as GLIFF, which was an alternate nickname based on how my Engineering Graphics teacher, Jimmy Chang, pronounced my name. About halfway through the game, I realized I was playing as GRIFF with my right hand and GLIFF with my left. I've been playing as GRIFF and GLIFF ever since. I thought you might have been a fan of Writer/Director Samuel Fuller. Griff was always a character in his films. |
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| Author: | griff [ Tue Aug 07, 2018 11:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GRIFF/GLIFF |
So we were in Germany last month and I noticed that all of the emergency stop signs in the subway had my name on them. https://goo.gl/images/A9TRLi Turns out Griff is the German word for handle. So...(wait for it) .... Mein Griff ist GRIFF. |
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| Author: | Gypsy [ Tue Aug 07, 2018 3:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GRIFF/GLIFF |
Ich bevorzuge, dass dein Griff "Gliff" ist. GYPSY |
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| Author: | griff [ Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GRIFF/GLIFF |
Thanks, I think. I hope nobody was walking past my office when I was trying to pronounce this silently to myself.
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| Author: | scar [ Thu Aug 09, 2018 8:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GRIFF/GLIFF |
griff wrote: So we were in Germany last month and I noticed that all of the emergency stop signs in the subway had my name on them. https://goo.gl/images/A9TRLi Turns out Griff is the German word for handle. So...(wait for it) .... Mein Griff ist GRIFF. Well, that's pretty cool. |
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| Author: | GONE D [ Thu Aug 09, 2018 6:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GRIFF/GLIFF |
Gypsy wrote: Ich bevorzuge... griff wrote: Thanks, I think. No thanks justified. GYPSY is attempting to upend your pun, a solid double, by turning second base and hoofing it into third for a triple. Well played, GYPSY. There are trains, there are handles, and there are preferences. You can arrive at third standing up. |
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| Author: | Jim [ Sat Aug 11, 2018 3:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GRIFF/GLIFF |
Griff is your Buzztime "nickname". Griff in german is a physical handle. A nickname in German is Spitzname or Schimpfname. Multinational companies sometimes experience problems when their trademarked brand name means something negative or different in another language. |
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| Author: | GONE D [ Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GRIFF/GLIFF |
Jim wrote: Multinational companies sometimes experience problems when their trademarked brand name means something negative or different in another language. I drive a 12 year old Japanese subcompact affectionately known as the Woofer. 213K in, it's on its third water pump, second brake job, and third set of tires. Other than that, it's had nothing but oil changes. But it never did have any gitty-up, hence a Dog. I'm fairly confident that the car company now known here as Nissan was influenced by the subtle interplay of German and English to change its name from Datsun, a near homophone for the ungainly badger dog, Dachshund. |
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| Author: | griff [ Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GRIFF/GLIFF |
scar wrote: griff wrote: So we were in Germany last month and I noticed that all of the emergency stop signs in the subway had my name on them. https://goo.gl/images/A9TRLi Turns out Griff is the German word for handle. So...(wait for it) .... Mein Griff ist GRIFF. Well, that's pretty cool. Thanks Uncle Scar! You get me 
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