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⌈ Secret Post #3216 ⌋

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(The Blacklist)

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[The Sum Of Us/Russell Crowe]

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[Dan and Phil]

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[Tokyo Ghoul:re]

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[dick grayson]

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[Scandinavia and the World]

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[Doctor Who]

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[One Piece]

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[Lost Dimension]

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[Sleepy Hollow]

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My name has two parts. In the interest of not giving my real name out on the internet, let's say it's Mary Jane. I introduce myself as Mary Jane, I sign my assignments as Mary Jane Lastname, and yet everyone keeps calling me Mary. Just Mary. It really annoys me, and I correct them when it's appropriate, but...how do they make that mistake? "Hey, I'm Mary Jane." "So Mary, where are you from?" *sigh*

I have the opposite problem. My first name is Ruth. My middle name is Anne. So many people call me Ruth Anne even when I tell them not to.

... Ruth?

I've been picturing you as a guy the past 3 years I've followed FS because of the "Phil" in your name.

(Obviously it doesn't matter, I was just a little bit thrown there.)

Oh, no. The Phil comes from the fact that I grew up in the Philippines. I've just always used that username.

AYRT - Ahh! There you go. :)

Really? I always got the impression she was female.

Now, any girl with a male icon gets me, though, so I see where you're coming from. I was just surprised you were surprised.

I have a niece named Philomena, and after a comment by a friend I always call her 'Agent'.

It's so weird for me that people would do that :/ it seems so natural to call people by what they introduce themselves as, you know?
When you correct them, how do they respond? Do they get the idea?

Yeah, they take it well and usually don't do it again. It just confuses me how they manage to do it in the first place.

Some people are really weird about names. I don't get it at all. Maybe they think they're being cute, or they can foster a sense of intimacy by giving you a nickname, or maybe they honestly think they have a right to call you whatever they want if they don't feel they can be bothered to say all of the syllables. I have a co-worker named Richard who goes by Ricky and we have this one client who won't stop calling him Rick no matter how many times people correct him. My name is kind of unusual, but not at all hard for english speakers to get right, and yet people rarely try to sound it out - they will maybe get the first syllable and then just make something up - and when I tell them how to poronounce it, they always drop the last syllable and act confused when I correct them about that.

I'm a Kathryn and in my childhood I was a Katie. When I was in secondary school, a good friend started calling me Kay and it completely stuck and I've been a Kay ever since.

Long story short, there are some folks who could never quite 'get' the leap from Katie to Kay. My grandma calls me 'Kate', which I'll take since at least it's close enough. We have some family friends who still call me Katie, despite asking them a few times to call me Kay and by now I've just given up on it.

That seems counter-intuitive to me. I call people what they introduce themselves as.

There's a guy I knew in school who went by his proper name until he was about ten, then switched to a diminutive of his English middle name (his family is from India) because his name was one syllable off of a common girl's name. Come grade 12, I'm the only person in the school who still called him by his proper name because *I* was never given permission to use his nickname. Calling him anything else just seems so rude I can't bring myself to do it.

That sounds more like you were being the rude one, actually.

If he switched to a diminutive of his middle name, and had everyone call him by a diminutive of his middle name, you don't need an engraved invitation to use the name he's being incredibly obvious about preferring. Continuing to use his full first name because you weren't specifically sat down and told some variant of "I'm going by Johnny now, you're allowed to call me that" is obnoxious.

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