GAWD it drives me crazy

Jessis62781

when people obsess over nicknames for their child.  I just don't understand it. 

mrs_b_2007

you mean like people who don't like the nicknames that people *may* develop for their child? Like, for instance Samuel-->Sam or Sammy?

armandos_girl

:scratches head:

As in, "I won't name my kid Joseph because I don't like Joe as a nickname, but Joey is ok" or "My kid has so many silly nicknames that I'm not sure he knows what his real name is anymore"?

Because I fall into the 2nd category.   

Jessis62781

mrs_b_2007:

you mean like people who don't like the nicknames that people *may* develop for their child? Like, for instance Samuel-->Sam or Sammy?

No, I'm thinking more like this:

https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/37830841.aspx

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jCamsquared

mrs_b_2007:

you mean like people who don't like the nicknames that people *may* develop for their child? Like, for instance Samuel-->Sam or Sammy?

::spits water at screen::

robinsokj

mrs_b_2007

Jessis62781:

mrs_b_2007:

you mean like people who don't like the nicknames that people *may* develop for their child? Like, for instance Samuel-->Sam or Sammy?

No, I'm thinking more like this:

https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/37830841.aspx

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yea that's just dumb. IMO, nicknames are something that just happen. You can't really declare a nickname. 

angiegail78

Jessis62781:

No, I'm thinking more like this:

https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/37830841.aspx

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Elivia?   Also Evy annoys me for some reason.  The v-y combination looks weird.

I'm all for nicknames, but I think it's funny to start with a nickname and work backwards to find a first name.

akalutts

Obsessing over almost anything drives me crazy.

Here is my "thing" about NNs- I named DD after my grandmother who was dying while I was pregnant (Marian.) I LOVE her name. My NN for her has always been Mare.

I did not want people calling her Mary. Now that she is in Jr High, what does everyone call her? Mary. I understand that she doesn't have the same hangups I had from always being firstnamelastinitial in school, but I will never call her by that NN. To me, it's not a NN, it's a different name all together. (at least she spells it Mari.)

Mama_SAS

angiegail78:

I'm all for nicknames, but I think it's funny to start with a nickname and work backwards to find a first name.

 

Ha, that's exactly what we did!

We wanted DS to have the initials T.S. so that T.S. could be his nickname. Then we found names that we liked together that started with T & S. (TS is significant for many reasons.) Then we didn't love any T names so we ended up with a T nickname as well (Theo).  It's a strange way to get a name, but it worked for us. 

giaM28

the nickname for my baby is Toto, not crazy about it but whatever. ill try to get hiim called the more popular.

Baby's name is Salvatore. Toto is the Italian nickname for it, Sal is the more Americanized nickname. My FIL and my dad are both Salvatore. FIL is Toto, my dad Sal. I will do my best to have people call him Sal and not Toto!