That name meme ...

[bubosquared]

If you call me ...

• Sofie (pronounced correctly), you're a coworker, RL friend, or family member;
• Sofie (prounounced the English way), you're going to have to be trained;
• Sof or any other abbreviation of my first name, we need to have a chat, because I hate when people abbreviate my first name;
• Sofieeeeeee, you're my brother, and the answer is no (and by "no" I mean "oh, fine," because I spoil that kid rotten);
• Melle, you know me online, or at least we met online;
• Mellie, you're a close online friend;
• Melleh!, you're Molly ("Molleh!") and possibly drunk;
• Kleine Puit (Little Frog), you're my grandmother;
• Mrs Werkers, you're looking for my late grandmother, or one of my aunts;
• Ms Werkers, you'll get away with it mostly because I'm forcing myself to accept I'm getting too old to be a "girl" anymore;
• Miss Werkers, you'll probably make my day.

Comments

[chased.livejournal.com]

kleine puit! i wanna call you that.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but that's gran's prividledge. Anyone else calls me that, they die. Or I die, of embarassement. :p

[chased.livejournal.com]

and how do you know i'm not your grandmother?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Because my grandmother doesn't "do" the internet. (Whole 'nother rant, there.)

[sivan.livejournal.com]

But wouldn't "Ms Werkers" be pronounced "Miss Werkers", too? Or do you only mean in writing?

Kleine Puit ... aww, man, that's so cute. :x

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

No, "Ms" is pronounced "Mz", no vowel. "Miss" is pronounced, well, "Miss". It's a bit subtle sometimes, but there's a difference. :)

[sileas.livejournal.com]

Kleine Puit

LOL! Ahem. *g*

I've got a whole collection of nicknames, most of them embarassing or very random. I don't particurlarly like my name being mentioned, especially not in a conversation. I can understand the need for someone to shout out my name when I'm upstairs and need to come down, but I don't like it when people use my name when they are talking to me. When I'm adressing someone or trying to get their attention, I'll most likely touch them. Doctors or teacher have a habit of trying to reassure me by using my first name, but in truth it makes me only warier.

I still mostly think of you as Melle, not Sofie. rane_ab I think of as Raantje (but I'll not call her that in real life!).

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Don't mock my nicknames, damn you! :p And yeah, it irritates me when people insert my name into every other sentence. It's condescending, dammit! Especially when they call me by my first name without permission, which I tend to perceive as just rude. Grmpf.

[sileas.livejournal.com]

*g* I'll mock your nicknames as much as I want to, young lady. ;-) You can call me rattekop in my face in return.

I seriously want to kill whomever invented the rule to make people comfortable by inserting their first name in every sentence. It only aggravates and I seriously don't think many people are calmed by it.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Seriously, dude, I know no one who feels comforted by that, and it's one of the more frequent peeves on customers_suck. Whoever thought that up was an idiot.

[sileas.livejournal.com]

I'd like to smack the guy in the balls. *g* They taught me the same thing in library school too, but I sure as hell will never speak to a customer in the library with their first name.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

See, I don't mind so much at the library, but then, I used to practically live there. Once it's people I've a "history" with, I appreciate it when they remember my name, and all, but the overkill is. UGH!

[sileas.livejournal.com]

but the overkill is. UGH!

*nods vigorously*

Do you go to the library often now? I usually go there to order books by IBL (and most of them come from Antwerp *g*)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Not really. I've sort of started to appreciate the value of having my own copy of books. I tend to buy paperbacks and sell the ones I don't want to keep to de Slegte. They tend to have a much better selection of (English) books at Waterstone's than in the library. Newer books, nonfic, that sort of thing.

[sileas.livejournal.com]

*nods* I usually buy off Proxis because Brussels is far away, but I read a lot of books - depending on the books I'd say two to five books a week - and that amounts to a lot of money each month. So I read books through IBL and if I really like them, I'll buy a copy for myself. I've been to the Slegte a few times, but the one in Bruges doesn't have that much second-hand English books. I've been to the one in Ghent and from what I saw, there were no books from my favorite authors and very little fantasy/sci-fi.

signing in as myself this time

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

Melleh!

You started it. *g*