I'm just gonna copy and paste the first part from a similar thread we had a while ago:
Wlad is basically an acronym. It used to be Vlad which is also an acronym. Vlad standing for "Value Life Accept Death" and Wlad is the Afrikaans counterpart "Waardeer Lewe Aanvaar Dood".
I've been using Vlad since about 1997 but I changed it to Wlad when my father passed away in 2005. The Vlad wasn't always an acronym, I chose it back then because of my fascination with Vlad Tsepes a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler, but when my father passed I figured out the acronym and noticed that it works in Afrikaans as well so I chose to use the Afr one.
The most irritating thing is people (online) not knowing it's Afr and then trying to pronounce it. I usually end up being called w lad or weelad or something.
Recently though I've started using Myrdlok, which is something I made up when I needed to create an account somewhere and Wlad was already in use and I didn't want to add a number (again). It's basically a combination of the names of two creatures in the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan (Myrddraal and Trolloc), I just kind of joined them together and changed the C at the end to a K. It popped into my head and I liked the sound of it so I have been using ever since, just wish I could change my PSN ID to Myrdlok, but it's wlad777 forever I suppose.
