Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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Except when Ben's very new, first-year-teaching, first grade teacher called me Aim the very first time she met me, and from there on out. She was extremely friendly and bubbly (and a very good teacher), so I felt weird calling her on it. I was tempted to call her Joss, though (her name was Jocelyn).Too familar! Too familiar. You totally should have called her Joss. I can't not call my Ben's friend Josh, "Joss". It's an actual problem.
I've never liked Aim(s) for myself -- although I'm happy to use it for the Empress, as she seems fine with it -- but it's never come up often enough to move from mild dislike to seething hatred.
On the other hand, my one real fight, back in the third grade, was with a kid who insisted that Amy couldn't possibly be my real name because all two-syllable names ending in "y" are nicknames. If anything, you have to admire his commitment to (albeit wrongheaded) logical consistency, as well as his willingness to get punched in the face by a girl.
Actually, you've mentioned it here before, and I've said the same thing before. I think this was just the first time other people chimed in too.
How kind of you to keep track of that. I honestly had no recollection.
Really? I would have pronounced it "nih-COLE-uh."
I can totally understand that if one is just seeing it in writing, and from a culture where the name is unfamiliar. But I bet if I'd introduced myself to you in person, you'd have listened to the sounds and taken them on board, rather than proceeded to call me Nicholas, NicOLEuh, Nicole or Nicolai for the next month or so. (Which is more than can be said for some of my co-workers.)
Too familar! Too familiar. You totally should have called her Joss. I can't not call my Ben's friend Josh, "Joss". It's an actual problem.
It was just so weird to have this 24-year-old girl calling me "Aim" like we were buddies.
Not strangely, I hate it when complete strangers or people I just don't like call me "Lease" but don't mind it at all when somebody I like calls me that. Other nicknames I have are used by one person each -- Lulu (my drummer) and Lisafer (my BFF). It would be really odd and offputting to me if anybody else picked up on those names and used them.
Both of my grandfathers had nicknames for me that weren't based on my name at all--Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Sugarbutton.
I have a tendency to monosyllableize+s people's names. Aims, Lis, Jules, etc. I try not to do it without permission, but it does slip out.
How kind of you to keep track of that. I honestly had no recollection.
What can I say? It's a gift.
But I bet if I'd introduced myself to you in person, you'd have listened to the sounds and taken them on board, rather than proceeded to call me Nicholas, NicOLEuh, Nicole or Nicolai for the next month or so. (Which is more than can be said for some of my co-workers.)
Heh. One of my biggest pet peeves is when I introduce myself as "Steph" and the person repeats it back as "Stephanie," thusly:
Me: Hi, I'm Steph.
Other person: Nice to meet you, Stephanie.
Me: [seethe]
I mean, is it THAT hard to say my one-syllable name? It's MORE work to tack the other 2 syllables back on it. It would be like someone being introduced to me as Joe, and then me calling him Joseph.
If I *wanted* to be called Stephanie, I would have introduced myself that way, damn it.
When I was pregnant with my son, my daughter (4.5 at the time) insisted that a) he would be a girl and b) we would name him Rachel. When we got home from the hospital with him, she started calling him Rachel. He's almost 10 now and she still calls him Rachel, although now I'm sure it's only to piss him off. His name is David - it comes with several nicknames built in but mostly? He's still Rachel.