I thought it would be funny if it looked like ’katydid.
...which is exactly how I pattern-matched it, and is why it was misleading to me: I happen to have interacted a fair amount over the past year with a (female) person whose screen name is “katydid”.
That has a higher prior (because I imagine more people have those initials than the last name Tydee) but lower likelihood ratio- I think that the combination of “K T” would call to mind the female name “Katie”, the use of “ty”, an abnormal way to write the pronunciation of the letter “T”, suggests sounds were on the mind if the name were constructed from KTD.
I don’t particularly care, but I’m curious.
If you didn’t intend your name to come out like that, what did you intend?
KTD, except I thought it would be funny if it looked like ‘katydid.’
...which is exactly how I pattern-matched it, and is why it was misleading to me: I happen to have interacted a fair amount over the past year with a (female) person whose screen name is “katydid”.
Only now do I realize the implicit pun in the word, and hence why it reads female.
What does the Acronym KTD stand for? A quick google search for acronyms lead me here: http://www.acronymgeek.com/KTD,
but this doesn’t really help....
It’s initials, not an acronym.
My anticipation is that the name was constructed as the concatenation of K A Tydee, or something similar.
Maybe his initials are K. T. D.
That has a higher prior (because I imagine more people have those initials than the last name Tydee) but lower likelihood ratio- I think that the combination of “K T” would call to mind the female name “Katie”, the use of “ty”, an abnormal way to write the pronunciation of the letter “T”, suggests sounds were on the mind if the name were constructed from KTD.