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HelpRe: What is your opinion about parents who choose a nice name and then shorten/change it to something else?
in reply to a message by Namaide
It's apparently a cultural difference?
And I'm afraid that in spite of your denials, it was a criticism, a generalization (there are tons of Michaels who go by Michael and not mike, for instance) and an assumption that your preferred way is the only understandable way.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
And I'm afraid that in spite of your denials, it was a criticism, a generalization (there are tons of Michaels who go by Michael and not mike, for instance) and an assumption that your preferred way is the only understandable way.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
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