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I first heard the word 'dolour' when my Year 7 English class was studying Harp in the South, which has a character called Dolour in it. I was in an obsessive look-up-the-meaning-of-every-name phase, looked up what 'dolour' meant, loved it, and appropriated the name as my own. To this day, emails from my main email address come from someone called 'Dolour Inviolate' and not from my real name.
At some point, I figured out that 'dolorosa' was the Latin form of 'dolour'. I thought it sounded better, especially since 'dolour' is pronounced the same as 'dollar'. Around this time, I logged onto my first internet forum, as 'Aletheia Dolorosa', a mishmash of Latin and Greek inspired by the alethiometer in His Dark Materials. Pretty soon, I'd dropped the 'Aletheia' and was attempting to log in everywhere online as 'Dolorosa'. Unfortunately, in most places, someone else had got there first, and I had to do what I always do when some rogue 'Dolorosa' has stolen my username: stick the number 12 on the end.
12 has been my favourite number since I was six. I always use it to modify 'dolorosa' when necessary.
Thus,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dolorosa_12.
I first heard the word 'dolour' when my Year 7 English class was studying Harp in the South, which has a character called Dolour in it. I was in an obsessive look-up-the-meaning-of-every-name phase, looked up what 'dolour' meant, loved it, and appropriated the name as my own. To this day, emails from my main email address come from someone called 'Dolour Inviolate' and not from my real name.
At some point, I figured out that 'dolorosa' was the Latin form of 'dolour'. I thought it sounded better, especially since 'dolour' is pronounced the same as 'dollar'. Around this time, I logged onto my first internet forum, as 'Aletheia Dolorosa', a mishmash of Latin and Greek inspired by the alethiometer in His Dark Materials. Pretty soon, I'd dropped the 'Aletheia' and was attempting to log in everywhere online as 'Dolorosa'. Unfortunately, in most places, someone else had got there first, and I had to do what I always do when some rogue 'Dolorosa' has stolen my username: stick the number 12 on the end.
12 has been my favourite number since I was six. I always use it to modify 'dolorosa' when necessary.
Thus,
dolorosa_12.