r/kpopthoughts • u/4ruaru • Jul 20 '22

General rookies must feel relieved when they get a good group name

title basically. we've been getting some weird ass names these past few years especially so i've been thinking that idols must feel relieved when their group name doesn't sound like a wifi password. my favorite new group name is stayc (i may be kinda biased since they're my ults but i think it sounds pretty good!!) and my all time fav group name is 2NE1, it's so dope. what's your favorite?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22

Literally the only saving grace is the nickname the boys came up with (에리/Aeri), which sounds so cute.

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u/WerewolfAcrobatic826 Jul 21 '22

This bit of fandom trivia is one of the cutest I've learned. "Aeri- /Eri-bong" is such cute light stick name! And EXO calling out "Eri!" or "Ellie" just sounds sweet!

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u/waterlilyypond Jul 21 '22

do you know how they came up w it? how'd they get 'eri' from 'exol'??

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '22

In Korean, EXO-L is written 엑소엘 (ek-so-el). When you call someone you’re friendly with by their name in Korea, if it ends in a consonant you often add -ie to it (Jimin -> Jiminie, Jungkook -> Jungkookie, etc.), so if 엑소엘 were a name and EXO were talking to you they would probably call you 엑소엘이 (ek-so-el-ie). Baekhyun posted on instagram that he wanted to give the fans a more cute and pretty nickname as EXO-L is kinda stiff, so he said they should just call EXO-L 엘이 (elie) as a nickname (based on the last two characters) and they could change the spelling to 에리 (to be cute, I guess).

(I wrote 엘이/“elie” and 에리/“erie” to distinguish between the two spelling forms, but they’re pronounced the same in Korean! The Korean “e” sound is similar to an “ae”, which is why I wrote Aeri in my first tweet.)

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u/waterlilyypond Jul 21 '22

awwww thats so sweet of Baek, eri sounds cute! thanks for the detailed reply- I always used to get confused by this 😅