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HelpRe: Sophie as a nickname? :s
in reply to a message by Nichole
I see no reason why Sophie couldn't be used as a nn for Sophia... it's pretty much right in the name. While I'm not a fan of either name, I think you could go either way on this one.
Side note: I call my friend's daughter Sophia Fi-chan because her bro used to caller her Fia when she was a baby and names of children often get shortened in Japan and then get chan tagged on the end rather than san... can do that w/ adults too if they're close enough friends. Thus, Sophia wound up being Fi-chan... but just to me.
1 way to reduce the nn trend is to make a habit of addressing her by both 1st and mn together and then it can get shortened to just the fn... I've found that very few of the people who've met me after I started going by both fn and mn try to shorten my fn anymore. Thus, she could be addressed by Sophia Jane or Sophia Renee or Sophia Joelle or whatever suits your fancy and then the "nn" would be just calling her Sophia.
Side note: I call my friend's daughter Sophia Fi-chan because her bro used to caller her Fia when she was a baby and names of children often get shortened in Japan and then get chan tagged on the end rather than san... can do that w/ adults too if they're close enough friends. Thus, Sophia wound up being Fi-chan... but just to me.
1 way to reduce the nn trend is to make a habit of addressing her by both 1st and mn together and then it can get shortened to just the fn... I've found that very few of the people who've met me after I started going by both fn and mn try to shorten my fn anymore. Thus, she could be addressed by Sophia Jane or Sophia Renee or Sophia Joelle or whatever suits your fancy and then the "nn" would be just calling her Sophia.
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