23-08-2003 06:53									#1
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I don't know if this is interesting to anyone, or just wierd. My internet pseudonym doesn't mean anything in particular; I just made it up at the age of thirteen by turning my last name backwards and changing a letter. Just out of curiosity, I searched my name on google to see if there were any others out there who went by it. To my surprise, my name is:

-"beautiful, good, perfect" in Indonesian, and the name of a former Indonesian queen
-a river in Uzbekistan
-some sort of train that runs through eastern europe
-the villain of an eighties B-movie titled "Playroom"
-a character in a musical called Starlight Express that was apparently based on/related to Cats(the page wasn't clear)
-the name of yet another fictional character, in a trashy piece of Dungeons and Dragons fanfiction no less.
-a word in several germanic languages whose meaning I couldn't even begin to guess.

Naturally, this makes me kinda jumpy, and since Poly is an international community, I just thought I'd throw out a question:
What does "Elok" mean in Danish/German/Finnish/half a dozen other languages? Do those suomithreadi people happen to speak a language that uses the word? Are there any other meanings I'm not aware of, e.g. is my name Mongolian slang for some kind of graphic sex act?

	23-08-2003 17:10									#2
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Inquiring minds must know, dagnabit! Bump!

	23-08-2003 17:19									#3
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Nothing If you replace "k" with "s" though it means "Swamp" in old Greek

	23-08-2003 17:21									#4
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If you invert it, it means "Arse" in modern Greek. Hey, you ask!

	23-08-2003 17:37									#5
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Well, In finnish "elok" doesnt mean anything. "Elo" means life though and adding two uu's like "elokuu" means august. Adding one more and changing one letter you'll get "elokuva" or living pictures->film,movies.

Elok is a word in archaic finnish and has probably meant life or something similar

Hope this helps.

	23-08-2003 19:30									#6
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it's short for electric locomotive in German Norwegian and probably some other languages as well

	23-08-2003 19:34									#7
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Aren't you an asskicking Teddy Bear who's helping to bring down the Empire?

Oh, wait... that's Ewoks. Sorry, man.

	23-08-2003 20:14									#8
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Lok in swedish is the common word for Locomotive, so eLok would means it's a trendy new eLocomotive. Ellok, ond the other hand, would be an electric locomotive like Gangerolf said.

	23-08-2003 20:22									#9
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In English Elok means "geeky internet boy who spams forums".

	23-08-2003 23:01									#10
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Elok? Doesn't mean anything in danish... as in Swedish, lok could be short for Lokomotiv (Locomotive), but otherwise it doesn't mean anything...

	24-08-2003 04:58									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin In English Elok means "geeky internet boy who spams forums".

Well, I already knew that! Gimme new information or beat it! Jeez.
Seriously, thanks to all.

	24-08-2003 05:57									#12
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Cole, like Cole Porter.

What's my name?

It's not St, it's not Swithin, it's not Winnie or S. or Lee, nor is it Winnie S Lee.

Any guesses?

	24-08-2003 06:29									#13
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Dave

	24-08-2003 07:40									#14
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Buck, what the hell is a "trendy new eLocomotive"?

	24-08-2003 08:06									#15
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Uh...

Rumplestiltsken?

	24-08-2003 08:08									#16
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Zylka.

	24-08-2003 17:33									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Gangerolf Buck, what the hell is a "trendy new eLocomotive"?

Like, you know, eCommerce or an iMac. Except involving a train. Er.

If you're allowed to add various accents, Élök in hungarian means "Living" as a collective noun, ie. cf. Az Élök = The Living as opposed to The Dead.

	24-08-2003 18:13									#18
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'Elokim' is how the religious people spell and say god in hebrew. it's change from 'Elohim'. The funny thing is that 'im' is usually placed in the plural form of words. Probably a polytheistic relic!

	24-08-2003 19:52									#19
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Nothing really similar...
perhaps brELOK (more often breloczek)
or ELOKwencja
or E LOK (english a lock in Polish transcribtion)or dundziELOK (whatever that means)

	24-08-2003 21:27									#20
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Entrance Lozenges Of Kosherness

	24-08-2003 22:53									#21
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quote: Originally posted by geeslaka Entrance Lozenges Of Kosherness