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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 16, 2009 1:40:16 GMT
......... what would you have picked?
I heard this question posed, and was stumped. I've used a nickname my whole life and must really identify with it and with my given name.
Let me think about this.
How about the rest of you? What name(s) would you have chosen instead of the ones your parents gave you?
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Post by lola on Sept 16, 2009 2:23:21 GMT
Maybe something like Her Royal Highness Princess Arianna Grace Louise, the Princess Royal, Most Exalted Knight of the Windswept Shores, Order of the Rose and Dame of Narnia.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 16, 2009 2:27:55 GMT
Maybe something like Her Royal Highness Princess Arianna Grace Louise, the Princess Royal, Most Exalted Knight of the Windswept Shores, Order of the Rose and Dame of Narnia. Lu-Lu for short.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2009 2:54:16 GMT
Good question. I really don't like my real, official name and hardly ever use it. My nick name is Okay, but I didn't choose it either. If I could have picked my own name it would have been something a little unusual like Omega.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 16, 2009 2:56:02 GMT
People call you "Okay"? No, no ~~ you should be "Swell" or "Marvelous"!
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 16, 2009 3:08:52 GMT
Thank God my parents picked my name. I'd feel funny if I had to pick my own.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2009 3:09:43 GMT
hwinpp...is a very interesting name ;D
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2009 3:11:20 GMT
People call you "Okay"? No, no ~~ you should be "Swell" or "Marvelous"! ;D Funny lady! I can just imagine calling myself 'Ms. Marvelous' haha....
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 16, 2009 3:22:22 GMT
hwinpp...is a very interesting name ;D It's actually just my initials, 'hw', and 'in pp', in Phnom Penh
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Post by cristina on Sept 16, 2009 3:29:32 GMT
My real name is, oddly enough, Cristina. But I would have preferred Pilar. I even named one of my dolls Pilar.
I was overruled on Pilar as a name for one of my daughters, although frankly it just didn't mesh well with their Dad's last name.
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Post by lola on Sept 16, 2009 3:35:57 GMT
Pilar is a nice one, isn't it?
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Post by cristina on Sept 16, 2009 4:10:57 GMT
Pilar is a nice one, isn't it? *feeling quite proud* Thank You! You are the first person to say that to me. Everyone else gives me a blank stare.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2009 4:35:28 GMT
I have never considered changing my name, even though I have never been in love with it. Perhaps if it had been something really annoying, I would have starting imagining other names.
My biological father's name was Cuthbert -- now there's a name I might have wanted to change. I have no idea how that popped up, because his 3 brothers and 1 sister all had perfectly normal names. (For those wondering, the nickname was 'Cut'.)
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Post by fumobici on Sept 16, 2009 5:27:41 GMT
My given name was quite unusual and a bit exotic when I was a kid, but has since become pretty common. I'm fine with it i think it suits me well enough. I would never dream of changing my name although I could do with a couple of aliases I suppose, joke names like Ben Dover or Miles Long. I went to HS with a farm girl named Sharon Gae Cox who never had a clue her name could be anything but innocent. Poor dear.
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 16, 2009 8:55:31 GMT
People I have known first on TT or TTR often continue calling me Baz when we meet. Baz Faz is not my name, just a character in a book I wrote.
It is certainly to be discouraged giving children the chance to choose their own names. My daughter, on her birth certificate, is Margaret Katrina. For various reasons she was not baptised until she was 5. In the car pn the way to the ceremony we said she was going to be baptised as above. No, she said, Margaret Katrina Alison. Alison? Who is Alison? A girl at my school, she replied, she has long blonde hair.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 16, 2009 10:21:24 GMT
I quite like Pilar too.
If I had a daughter I'd name her Lisa. If I had a son I'd name him Hagen.
I think they're nice names but Iguess the mother would have a say in it as well.
BTW, in your cases, who's suggestions got chosen more frequently, the mother's or the father's?
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Post by starfire on Sept 16, 2009 11:58:02 GMT
Oddly enough, I did pick my own name
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2009 11:59:52 GMT
Yes, but you went to extremes to do so!
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 16, 2009 12:01:53 GMT
I don't like my name. I would have been happier with nearly ANY other name. But I would not change it now as it is of course, my identity. Funny story: When my sister was pregnant with her second child, my niece was about 3 and suggested to name the baby either Lametta or Lasagne.
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Post by starfire on Sept 16, 2009 12:02:51 GMT
Yeah, true! I did ask my Mum to choose a name for me, but she declined, saying that she had already named me once and that was enough.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2009 15:47:10 GMT
Casimira is my real name in Polish and is what my mother and dear friends refer to me as (except when angry or reprimanding).However,an abbreviated version,Cas(pronounced kaaj). I would have chosen to be legally named this.
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Post by tillystar on Sept 16, 2009 19:43:50 GMT
I like my name, it's not Tilly It's long and has lots of variations and different people use different ones - sometimes changing depending on their mood with me. I like that. When I was younger I was a real tomboy wished I had been given a long girls name that could be shortened to a boys name - Georgina/George or Aurora/Rory were my favorites. Partly because of this childhood obsession (probably to be at least partially blamed on Enid Blyton) I chose a boys name as my confirmation name.
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Post by BigIain on Sept 16, 2009 21:36:54 GMT
I am quite happy with what I have. But in any case nobody ever uses my name really. I have way too many nicknames that are much more fun.
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Post by lola on Sept 16, 2009 22:01:29 GMT
I am quite happy with what I have. But in any case nobody ever uses my name really. I have way too many nicknames that are much more fun. such as?
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Post by BigIain on Sept 16, 2009 22:08:42 GMT
Lola, its been done before, and since no-one else except Gyro would share their nicknames I am not going to do it again. Everyone has at least one nickname!!!
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Post by lola on Sept 17, 2009 0:24:22 GMT
okay, okay. Sheesh. I'll make up my own.
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Post by BigIain on Sept 17, 2009 7:23:33 GMT
Now that's the spirit!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2009 16:03:40 GMT
I wonder why I chose to call myself 'deyana'? Maybe I can change that to Omega
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Post by spindrift on Sept 17, 2009 16:21:57 GMT
I like my name. It's a Gaelic name and can be spelled in two different ways.
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Post by imec on Sept 17, 2009 17:14:48 GMT
I'm comfortable with my name - although many Americans (not Canadians) seem to have difficulty pronouncing it (even though it's only 3 letters). The French had difficulty too.
As for nicknames, when I was a kid I was called "Limey" (due to my British origin) - which was later shortened to "Lime" and later still bastardized to "Slime" (just because it sounded funny - not because I was slippery or dirty). Early in our courtship, the future Mrs. I, needing to be sure of what she might me getting into, sheepishly asked "Why do they call you Slime?" ;D
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