I have a very short real name. And my parents always told me, they chose it so no one could shorten it.
And I hated that.
Everyone had a cute "y" on the end. Everyone was in the in-group just by being called a different name
by differnt people. A way to gouge the seriosness of beeing called.
No, not for me, I was always the same name.
I was 100% shure I would change it to my second name. after i would leave home.
Only when I stayed in Britain for 1/2 Year and people pronounced it differnent,
I came to the conclusion yes that is me.
But my nick is long, and I just love it when people take the time and
creativity to shorten it.
If people shorten your name, they tell you something, of the way they see you,
that might be good or bad, but it tells you something, and I was really missing
out on that with a 4 character name.
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