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HelpRe: D: Really bad twinset
in reply to a message by Rachel Shaina
I don't think it's that bad. I don't like it, but they don't sound that much alike. Nathan is NAY-than while Nathanel is NEH-than-el (something like that) so they don't sound that similar to me. They just look alike.
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I agree, but
...we're from a non-English speaking countries and people don’t automatically have a nickname for a long name (every Sebastian, Leonardo, Nathaniel, etc. I know go by their full name, but most people on this board that are from US/UK always comment on how they don’t like the nicknames. Who says you HAVE to have a nickname?)
And while those boys were born in the US, their father is clearly Latino, so my guess is they’ll go by their full names since Latinos have no problem with calling their kids by both first and middle name (Juan Carlos, Fernando, Maria Guadalupe, etc.), so Nathaniel is hardly going to be too long for them.
...we're from a non-English speaking countries and people don’t automatically have a nickname for a long name (every Sebastian, Leonardo, Nathaniel, etc. I know go by their full name, but most people on this board that are from US/UK always comment on how they don’t like the nicknames. Who says you HAVE to have a nickname?)
And while those boys were born in the US, their father is clearly Latino, so my guess is they’ll go by their full names since Latinos have no problem with calling their kids by both first and middle name (Juan Carlos, Fernando, Maria Guadalupe, etc.), so Nathaniel is hardly going to be too long for them.
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I don't think it is necessarily that names have to have a nickname, but in the US it is almost inevitable that someone will call a person by a nickname. If a parent doesn't like that nickname then they may just stay away from the name altogether. After all, you can control the name but you can't control what other people nickname them.
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