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An analysis of nqthqn
First — Thank you to my linguist friends, Hugh and Becky, for helping me figure out how to say this name.
My name is nathan and I am full of questions — so nqthqn.com seemed a fitting choice for a domain name. If you squint the lowercase q's look like a's. Perhaps pronounced "nah-queeth-quin".
Let's notate this phonetically using the IPA with some voiceless incidental fricatives, etc.
nə • kʷiθ • kʷin
Inspiration
It's not actually an acronym. It's just a word with no phonetic pronunciation -- a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings.
— Randall Munroe
I love saying it. It rolls off the tongue with ease. It has become a word. And it has inspired me. For myself and others in the STEM field XKCD has had an impact on me.
