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👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle @Fragglemuppet@fandom.ink
8mo
This question is for people who still use the name their parents gave them. Do you like it? A lot of people, including me, say they don't like their name, and I always wondered if it's a thing like how no one's supposed to like the sound of their own voice.
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Simon Jaeger @simon@procrastodon.net
8mo
@Fragglemuppet I actually do. It's common enough that people generally know how to spell and pronounce it. Uncommon enough that I'm often the only one in the room. People don't unintentionally shorten it because there are no well-established nicknames for it. The thought of changing it has never crossed my mind. Thanks mom.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@simon @Fragglemuppet People can mess up even the most common of names. Speaking from personal experience as someone who's been called Sampson, Simon, Samantha, and in one notably bazaar email, Smamuleel. In that last case, I assume...the...backspace key wasn't...working...or...something? You can see they tried, but...I don't even know!
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Simon Jaeger @simon@procrastodon.net
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@fastfinge @Fragglemuppet I have a theory: If it's uncommon, people's brains short-circuit. If it's too common, people don't think about it at all, so they mess it up. If it's one of those names you only run across occasionally, people get it right because they're thinking about it, but it's low-effort.
That's all I've got. I mean, of course people manage to get mine wrong sometimes, but it's rare for some reason.
On the other hand, everyone tries to spell my last name with A-R at the end, not E-R. The other day I had to spell it six or seven times.
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James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space
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@simon @fastfinge @Fragglemuppet I have an alternative theory: many humans don't give enough of a shit about other humans to bother getting their names right.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
8mo
@jscholes @Fragglemuppet @simon Yeah, that's a really interesting theory, Geoffrey. LOL JK
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James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space
8mo
@fastfinge @Fragglemuppet @simon Thank you, Prudence. This validation will sustain me for the duration of at least two YouTube shorts.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @Fragglemuppet @simon You're welcome, Jason!
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