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Username - do you mind it being shortened?

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  • It`s the other way around with my real name - my parents have always shortened it and I always hated it! I prefer my full real name and it really bugs me when people I`ve barely known 5 secs shorten it!

    Not fussed about my username though, not sure what it would be like short? :D
  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    I get called fluff all the time. I like it.
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  • j.e.j.
    j.e.j. Posts: 9,672 Forumite
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    I've got a relative called Amelia, and we often try to shorten it, because the little ones (aged about 3 or 4) find it a bit of an effort. The most they manage is Mee-la!
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    A loved child has many names...sonetimes these are shortene versions of a given name.

    Akmost know one calls be by my given name, my parents sometimes, and i rarely use it, even though i like it. The nick name i go by in my family is how i think of myself, though not everybody uses that either, When they do tjey ge it wrong often enough, which is also fine...i answer to anything really! Usually i use a shortened version of my nick name.

    As regards username, i don 't mind what it is shortened too. I am usually lir or lost here, i like both.
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,334 Forumite
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    Not fussed about my username though, not sure what it would be like short? :D
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  • *Louise*
    *Louise* Posts: 9,197 Forumite
    I don't mind my name being shortened online, it's friendly and aves on typing for some lengthy names but only my friends call me my shortened name in real life - it would be a bit cheeky for someone you just met to do it :)
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  • Melisandre_of_Asshai
    Melisandre_of_Asshai Posts: 37 Forumite
    edited 26 February 2012 at 7:22PM
    I haven't been around long enough on here to have had my name shortened, but I wouldn't mind if anyone did - tis a tad on the long side. Its clearly not my real name anyways. :)

    I don't like my real name being shortened. Someone I used to work with and wasnt even close to used to shorten it all the time and it always really annoyed me.
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    I haven't been around long enough on here to have had my name shortened, but I wouldn't mind if anyone did - tis a tad on the long side. Its clearly not my real name anyways. :)

    I don't like my real name being shortened. Someone I used to work with and wasnt even close to used to shorten it all the time and it always really annoyed me.

    hmmm You have certainly given us enough to work with! letsee.........Meli? Sandre? not Asshai I would think!
    Permission to call you Meli, ma'am??????
  • Permission granted!!:T
  • bag :rotfl: omg I wish I would of thought this username through when I signed up !
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