(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

alya1989262
2009-06-18 01:08 pm UTC (link)

I have kind of the opposite problem. My name isn't very common in my country, and it sounds like the common nickname for another more common name. Which leads to basically everyone calling me the wrong name, even after I clarify that Alya is not my nickname. And yeah, for a long time, I used to rant about it to everyone, and insisting that they call me by my real name. Then I turned ten and grew up. I just assume now that people who don't know me well will make the mistake.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

zaliesiren
2009-06-18 02:50 pm UTC (link)

>_>

I've given people death stares and made jokes about dismembering people who have the balls to use the "Jenny" nickname around me. But, y'know, it's a joke. However much I despise that nickname (and I do) I really don't care if people make a mistake and call me by it. I just don't answer to it, unless it's a family member who's been calling me Jenny for the past several decades and it's just too hard a habit to break. I'll play nice then. *cough*

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lirazel 2009-06-19 03:45 pm UTC (link)
	My sister has a similar problem. The most interesting case was when a newspaper reporter took it upon himself to use "Jenn" throughout the article after the first full Jennifer. >_ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zaliesiren 2009-06-19 05:07 pm UTC (link)
	Ha! Oddly enough I prefer going by Jen. Jennifer is okay, but Jen is preferred. Jenny gets one gutted. No rly. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

hallidae
2009-06-18 04:17 pm UTC (link)

My mother has a similar problem, though in a somewhat weird, roundabout way. Everyone who meets her on the first time calls her "Allison", even after she's already introduced herself as "Alice, like the books". Which at first seems like they're calling her the nickname, since "Allison" was originally such for "Alice", but now most people seem to assume it's the other way around.

(Reply to this)(Parent)

	sistercoyote 2009-06-18 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	I run into this as well, because I am a woman (not that anyone could tell on the internet) whose first name is "Jo." I get a lot of "what's that short for?" "Nothing." "Really?" Yes, really. Also, I apparently mumble my name or something, because I get a lot of calls back for "Jill." Not sure who she is, but I've been answering to her name for years now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pingin_tango 2009-06-19 01:54 am UTC (link)
	I get a lot of people calling me Janice or Jana. I guess that I don't say the t in my name well enough. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	risha 2009-06-19 03:50 am UTC (link)
	I lisped as a child, so many people ended up believing that my name was "Lisa". (Reply to this)(Parent)

	taterbird 2009-06-19 06:34 am UTC (link)
	I get "Case" a lot which is weird, because it isn't even close to my real name. I just grin and bear it, because there's no polite way to seriously ask "Do I sound like I'm drunk? No, really, I need to know." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vasaris 2009-07-03 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	Really? I get that the other way around. Although apparently 'Jill' rhymes with an amazing number of other names that don't share any letters with it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

some_dude
2009-06-18 10:42 pm UTC (link)

I've got an opposite issue that somehow doesn't quite come back around to being the initial one, in that I've always gone by a nickname that is somewhat unusual for my whole first name (my parents gave me a long name with a slightly variant spelling so they could use the nickname). Of course, people who have my name on official forms call me Fullname; the trick is deciding whether I'll be interacting with them long enough to bother correcting to Nickname. Sometimes I miscalculate and it gets awkward. "I've known you for a week now, so I should probably tell you that I actually go by Nickname."

(Reply to this)(Parent)

(Read comments) -