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frequently asked questions

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updated 2021-01-16

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updated 2021-04-21


Are you religious?

The only god I worship is Hatsune Miku.

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What are your political beliefs? What do you think about [thing]?

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+See my political opinions. +

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I messaged you on [platform] and you didn't respond. Why is that?

I'm not active on many platforms and the ones on which I am active tend to glitch out because I always have weird device setups. @@ -36,18 +41,53 @@ Unless you opened with something really weird, had I seen your message, I would

Why "Trinity"? Don't you go by Deven?

I go by both. What do you think the T in DTB stood for?

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Did you coin the term "catfella"?

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How do you pronounce "Deven"?

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+It depends. +I have the katakana translation of my name on the site index. +This says my name is pronounced "DEH vin", which isn't really correct. +It's actually "DEH vehn", which is distinct from the name "Devin". +In practice you're probably better off just saying "DEH vin", which is what I do. +

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+No, my parents did not curse me with some ungodly unique name; I got it changed (legally) from what it once was long ago. +Send guesses as to my birth-name on a postcard: 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE; WASHINGTON, DC 20500. +

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How do you pronounce "Trinity"?

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+You leetspeek "tr1n17y". Alternatively you may use the English approximate pronunciation "Trihnihtee". +

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How do you pronounce "Blake"?

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+"BLAYK". +

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Did you coin [term]?

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+I have said maybe once or twice that I made up the discretion between "disc" and "disk" +(that "disc" is for optical and physically impressive media, such as compact discs or phonograph discs, and that "disk" is for magnetic media, such as floppy disks or hard disks; there are however exceptions and edge cases). +That was an exaggeration. +Someone probably came up with that one before me. I just followed what seemed to me to be an implied convention. +

I might have coined the term catfella (a synonym of the conventional nyanbinary on 2020-08-11. Or someone else might have coined it first. I can't find it used in the same context elsewhere on-line (I used it when referring to my friend Socks) but maybe we'll never know.

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These aren't frequently asked but for the sake of completion I'll add them:

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+There are "Devenisms" (and you can conjugate that however you'd like with "Trinity" if you so choose), +which is what I call spontaneous and novel reformations and compoundings of previously-existing words, +but they're more Seussian than actual terms. I choose words based on how they taste, not how they look. +

Are you {antisemitic,homophobic,racist,sexist,transphobic,xenophobic}?

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Not intentionally.

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+Not intentionally. +This one tends to be rhetorical, and from people who believe otherwise. +You're welcome to browse my (no doubt terrible) political opinions, which are previously hyperlinked on this page. +