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Post by Youngster Joey on Apr 20, 2012 1:31:57 GMT -5
I'm rather neutral towards my first name, Rebecca. I don't think it sounds very aesthetically pleasing, but it could have been worse. (I remember my mother telling me that she contemplated naming me Betsy, which I think is a terrible enough name to warrant being called outright child abuse.) My only real qualms with Rebecca is that it has the terribly unfortunate nickname of Becky, which is the name my family uses for me. I've begged them for 14 years to stop, but they won't. My family members are terrible human beings.
Interestingly, I've been told over and over that I "don't look like a Rebecca." Throughout my life, no matter where I go or who I'm with, people mistakenly call me Rachel instead. Hm.
Hate my last name. Ugly sounding. My middle name's pretty alright. My parents must have thought they were being clever with my middle name, I suppose, what with my initials reading REB, heh.
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Post by Captain Zelar on Apr 20, 2012 1:40:22 GMT -5
My dad wanted to name me Duncan after some character from a sci-fi book, but my mom wouldn't let him since she thought people would make fun of my name or something.
No one has every made fun of my name (Derek) so I guess.
Although since it isn't that common, hearing my name when it refers to other people is a bit strange.
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Post by Kise Ryota on Apr 20, 2012 8:41:09 GMT -5
I come to terms with it and no longer care if people pronounces it in correctly. Asides from I secretly take amusement at seeing people attempt at saying it. :3 Applies to both first and last names.
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Post by Hiro the Half-Elf on Apr 20, 2012 10:09:27 GMT -5
Don't like it.
And it'd be nice to get a surname people don't trip themselves over.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Apr 20, 2012 12:00:51 GMT -5
Must've been annoying in grade school, having 5 thousand other kids in class with your name. At least, that was the way it was in my elementary school. So many Chrises.
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Post by Umbra on Apr 20, 2012 14:24:58 GMT -5
Although since it isn't that common, hearing my name when it refers to other people is a bit strange. Story of my life. Aside from my name being so darn common, I debate sometimes whether I want to be called Josh or Joshua, though most call me by the former. I have a friend with the same name, and so when we are in a social setting with other friends, we're called by our last names. So pretty much, my last name has been adopted as a nickname. I don't hate it except that it sounds like someone is calling their dog (me) when they say it.
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Post by hikarihanazono on Apr 20, 2012 16:51:04 GMT -5
Hell no. Because most Karens I know are beaches. -_- So I keep it to Lisbet to Hikari...but mostly everyone still calls me Karen.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Apr 20, 2012 17:26:06 GMT -5
I can't picture you as a Karen. I really can't.
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Post by sukotsuto on Apr 20, 2012 19:48:33 GMT -5
I'm fine with my name, Christian Scott. I just wish me and my siblings aren't all named "Christian" as fist name (my sister is Kristianne), as people here in the US call people by first names instead of our middle names... so we're all called "Chris" here in the US.
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Post by Latee Hatori on Apr 20, 2012 20:40:47 GMT -5
I can't imagine hikarihanazono as a Karen either. Karen is my paternal grandmother's name......
I've never really thought about whether I like or dislike my first name. When I was younger I'd sometimes would wonder why people would often ask me how to spell my name, but that was about it. Somehow I managed to avoid most of the people with the "same" name until high school, encountering only one or two before that. Out of all of them only one shared the spelling "Haley"...she also had the same middle name and, until I changed my last name to my mom's maiden name, the same last initial.
For a while I slightly disliked my middle name because it was rarely used outside of being scolded and because I hardly had any reason to write it most of the time it took me a while to learn how to spell. As a minor nitpick, when my middle school Spanish teacher chose our Spanish names, she used my middle name as the base instead of my first like almost everyone else.
I slightly dislike my dad's last name for the rare occasions someone decides they're going to tack on an "s".
I'm glad my mom decided not to call me Chelsea.
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Post by supersonic1453 on Apr 20, 2012 21:22:26 GMT -5
I dunno. My name is pretty average.
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Post by hikarihanazono on Apr 20, 2012 23:18:51 GMT -5
I can't picture you as a Karen. I really can't. I can't imagine hikarihanazono as a Karen either. Karen is my paternal grandmother's name...... That's an interesting thought, what did you guys think my actual name would be?
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Post by RedJ on Apr 20, 2012 23:54:24 GMT -5
Sean is a name I can live with. It's a lot better than what it was apparently going to be- John. It's already confusing enough with how common John is, and being around when people call for 'John', but HEARING Sean when they actually aren't. Blargh.
My initials are an entirely different story. While I'm sure there are worse out there, STD is by far one of the most unfortunate set of initials ever. I curse my dad to this day. My mom actually caught it, BUT NOOOOOOOOOO HE INSISTED.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Apr 21, 2012 0:29:31 GMT -5
Ahahahha. I don't suppose you were one of the kids in elementary school who had an L.L. Bean backpack embroidered with your initials.
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Post by RedJ on Apr 21, 2012 1:17:11 GMT -5
I wasn't. In fact, no one ever made the connection until middle school- when I saw a STD prevention billboard on my way to school, was hit with REALIZATION, and then let it slip to one of my friends. Naturally, most of the school knew by the end of the day.
And boy, was it fun filling out paperwork when I was enlisting into the Navy. All those things I had to initial...
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