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Helpyes, there's a difference ...
in reply to a message by Gracie
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.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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