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re: People that ask you to start calling them by a different name later in life
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:48 pm to Pettifogger
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:48 pm to Pettifogger
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The more "professional" variant is just what I prefer for written stuff, to be honest.
This. For whatever reason, I find it mildly annoying to see my name written as “Josh (last name)”. Not a big deal, but it’s not my preference. Anytime I say my full name, I say Joshua, but literally no one calls me anything but Josh, and I wouldn’t want them to. If someone insisted on calling me Joshua, I would think it was incredibly weird. There’s a level of formality of an introduction or the written word, then there is the informality of how we interact with people we know. Perfectly normal.
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Posted on 3/21/24 at 9:00 pm to TigerBR1111
Darryl then Hayden. Weirdo.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 9:01 pm to TigerBR1111
What kind of people do you hang out with?
Posted on 3/21/24 at 9:04 pm to LSUScores
Neaux just fricking Neaux
Jimmy ain’t suddenly James
Jimmy ain’t suddenly James
Posted on 3/21/24 at 9:09 pm to TigerBR1111
Im going to call them whatever I always called them. You can't expect someone who has been knowing you for a long time to just start calling you something else, but you know what I think is worse? When people want to be called Dr. but they work in a different field in which their doctorate.
The head of our HR has a doctorate, its not in HR, I don't think you can even get one in HR. Yet this bitch answer's the phone "This is Dr. ______"
The head of our HR has a doctorate, its not in HR, I don't think you can even get one in HR. Yet this bitch answer's the phone "This is Dr. ______"
Posted on 3/21/24 at 9:11 pm to TigerBR1111
Yes, two people close to me over the years have done this. I think it may feel like they are reinventing themselves but it may come across to others as a form of self- repudiation. I have one friend that has had 3 variations of the same name since I’ve known him.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 10:24 pm to TigerBR1111
I use to know a guy that his first and middle names were Randolph Scott. Always knew him as Scotty.
Around 40, he started asking people to be called Randy, instead of Scotty.
I thought that was a weird thing for a grown man to care about, but he was about to inherit a few million dollars.
That may have had something to do with it.
Around 40, he started asking people to be called Randy, instead of Scotty.
I thought that was a weird thing for a grown man to care about, but he was about to inherit a few million dollars.
That may have had something to do with it.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 10:47 pm to TigerBR1111
I wondered this myself too. I had a girl I went to high school with and her formal name was Katherine. She always went by Katie. But she got married had a few kids and goes by Kate now.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 11:27 pm to TigerBR1111
It is not just later in life. One of the kids I work with wants to be called Little Dookie. I guess nobody is happy with their own name anymore.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 11:51 pm to Cincinnati Tiigre
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Knew a Gina from like 3 years old. In the 8th grade she became Kathy and Lord help anyone who forgot.
Sounds like a VaGina
Posted on 3/22/24 at 7:42 am to TigerBR1111
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Posted on 3/22/24 at 7:44 am to TigerBR1111
I tell people just call me nighthawk.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:36 am to TigerBR1111
Eh, there's many instances where someone gets called a nickname, or even a shortened version of their name, when they were kids, and don't want to be called kid names anymore. Several names come to mind of nicknames associated with the real name. Billy, Jimmy, Dicky, Nicky, Tommy, BJ, DJ, etc. People grow up and enter the professional world and want to be called by their legal name, not their kid names.
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