{"id":2237,"date":"2017-12-04T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T22:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2017-12-01T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:13:55","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-username","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-username\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>username<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are usernames like in Finnish online communities?\u00a0<em>Lasse H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen<\/em>\u00a0examined 7,600 usernames in three different communities. The most popular\u00a0tend to reflect<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the user&#8217;s own first name, family name, or nickname (<em>Jenni<\/em>). Other popular choices are proper nouns (<em>star wars-1<\/em>), various\u00a0descriptive<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>words (<em>coolboy9<\/em>) and made-up names (<em>htunaungh<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Often, the first username you choose is already taken. As a result, users customize that choice through modifications. Most commonly, they add numbers (<em>Bella92<\/em>), special characters (<em>V!rtual<\/em>), or additional letters (<em>voldemortt<\/em>). Other approaches involve changing or deleting some of the letters of the name. If the letters have been removed, deletion is most often done at the end of the word (<em>DeacoMa<\/em>). An extra space is sometimes added inside the word (<em>Piz za<\/em>), sometimes between parts of a compound word<i>\u00a0(jedi nite)<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Only 40 percent of the usernames in H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen&#8217;s study began with a capital letter. The most popular languages were Finnish and English, but the third most popular,\u00a0unexpectedly,\u00a0was Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are usernames like in Finnish online communities?\u00a0Lasse H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen\u00a0examined 7,600 usernames in three different communities. The most popular\u00a0tend to reflect\u00a0the user&#8217;s own first name, family name, or nickname (Jenni). Other popular choices are proper nouns (star wars-1), various\u00a0descriptive\u00a0words (coolboy9) and made-up names (htunaungh). Often, the first username you choose is already taken. As a result, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}