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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So a family joke is a better reason to have a nickname that "doesn't make sense" by your standards, but choosing a nickname that is related to a name in some way does?  That's ridiculous.

Jordan starts to "Jo" and ends with "Dan."  I don't see why Jo and Danny (Dan probably more than Danny) are that odd.

Plus, who cares?  Why would you start a thread like this?  You obviously don't want to "pick on" people who have "cute" reasons for using nicknames, but you do want to pick on other people, huh?[/quote]

The reason is that a family joke has a reason and came about naturally. Chuck = the kid reminded his sister of a woodchuck. Sia because the brother couldn't pronounce the name. So these naturally happened and have a cute story.

Danny for Jordan is annoying because it's so typical dcum and doesn't come about naturally. "Let's see, I'm going to name him Jordan but insist that people call him Danny, same amount of syllables but I just like the sound of Danny but would rather name him a totally different name, just to be annoying and "unique." Name him Daniel or Dan or Danny if you like the damn name Danny.

Same goes for the new born girl I met last week. "Her name is Elizabeth but we're going to call her Timmy" WHAT? "ooooh, that's cute. How'd you come up with that?" "We just thought it was a cute name" ok...........

Main point, these nicknames that don't naturally occur and are pushed on children and their teachers and friends, are used to be unique or some other way of making a point by the parents (we had a girl, chose a traditional female name but decided to insist that people call her Timmy because we want to make sure everyone knows that we're "feminists"). If you don't like this thread, move on.  
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Fair enough, but almost every nickname has a REASON.  The parents might not explain it all, but they probably have a reason for those nicknames.  Maybe Jordan is a family name, but they didn't actually want to call their kid Jordan every day.  Or maybe a kid is called Thomas John and goes by T.J. (or even Teejay) because of his initials.  These are WAY more logical and natural than calling someone Chuck because a kid thought the baby looked like a woodchuck.  Seriously?

And it doesn't really seem "cute" that someone changed what their child was called simply because her brother couldn't pronounce her name at the moment she was born and he was 2 years old.  That seems silly.  Should we also call water "wawa" forever because that's what he says, too?

Sorry, but I think you are being overly judgmental and pretty much have it backwards about what makes sense and what doesn't.
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PP, I think you've gotten me wrong. The example you used, Thomas John = TJ/TeeJay, makes total sense. This is a natural nn.

The examples I used, Chuck and Sia, are not cases where people "changed what their child was called". These are nicknames that the family uses, but the children are not introduced as these names. Similarly to how you wouldn't say "and one glass of wawa for my daughter."

You're right, all nn probably do have a REASON, but some of those reasons are dumb. Calling your kid TeeJay is fine and seems logical. Calling your little Thomas John, CRAIG, while you're still pregnant is weird! Why not just name your kid Craig. (this is just an example name, but I've run into this sort of thing and that is what I'm complaining about). Also, I don't take anything on DCUM seriously, that's probably why I don't think this thread is overly judgmental. I actually enjoy kind of pointless threads like this more than "serious" threads that don't go anywhere and turn into debates about public breastfeeding or when to turn your toddler forward facing (been there done that). [/quote]

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