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I wouldn't spread it around to common use, but I do call John "Goofy" on the regular (as a name not a descriptor.
~Anna~
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yes, there's a difference ...
Between nns that are just used privately at home and nns that are used by friends and teachers.
I have a friend whose son is named Joshua, but when he was learning to crawl, he got the nn Monkey, because he would get up on his hands and feet and move kind of like a monkey. This would have been fine for just a private, at-home or occasional nn, but if he'd gone to school answering to Monkey, well ... if I was his teacher I wouldn't be very happy, and it would be hard to explain to him that Monkey wasn't an appropriate name for teachers to be calling him.
Between nns that are just used privately at home and nns that are used by friends and teachers.
I have a friend whose son is named Joshua, but when he was learning to crawl, he got the nn Monkey, because he would get up on his hands and feet and move kind of like a monkey. This would have been fine for just a private, at-home or occasional nn, but if he'd gone to school answering to Monkey, well ... if I was his teacher I wouldn't be very happy, and it would be hard to explain to him that Monkey wasn't an appropriate name for teachers to be calling him.
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I knew a kid called Bug. His real name was Joshua but he had a hearing problem as an toddler and he called himself Bug because of the way he heard his name. It stuck and he's in highschool and everyone calls him Bug.
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I took a class at uni with a guy who insisted on being called Shrimp. I refused to call him Shrimp. I wasn't friends with him and a nickname like that has a certain level of intimacy, at least in my opinion, and I didn't feel comfortable using it when I barely knew him.
He had an ordinary name like David or Daniel and I don't know why he didn't want us to use it.
He had an ordinary name like David or Daniel and I don't know why he didn't want us to use it.
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I use to know a man nicknamed Squid. These seafood names! I don't know what his actual name was, I didn't know him that well.
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