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You seem to have a pretty narrow view of names, like that thread where the teacher thought an Isabella should always be called Isabella even if the kid went by Bella. I haven't come across any extreme examples like you mention, and since you admit it's a made up one it's hard to judge what's going on, but a name has to do a lot over a person's lifetime, so it makes sense to me why parents might want a name that provides options over time. Little Timmy can decide to be Elizabeth or any of the other nicknames later if she wants, but if her parents had actually named her "Timmy" she'd be SOL. As for Jordan and Danny, it seems to me to be a nice solution in the event that the parents actually like BOTH names and don't want to decide.  My DH and I went with a name theme that we realize our kids may grow to hate, so we purposely chose names that have nicknames outside the theme so our kids have options later. [/quote]

[b]If her parents had actually named her Timmy, she could still go by Elizabeth or whatever. Like this:

Person #1: Hi, Timmy!
Person #2: Actually, I go by Elizabeth.[/b]

But yes, the

Person #1: Hi, Isabella!
Bella: Actually, I go by Bella.
Person #1: No, I refuse to call you Bella! It says Isabella on your birth certificate, and so I must call you Isabella, you selfish entitled whiner!

thread was a real DCUM classic.[/quote]

pp here, and this illustrates my point about names doing different work over a lifetime, because while this might seem to work OK for babies or in early years of school, when it starts to matter what one's legal name is, it creates difficult situations to make up names that have fuck-all to do with your given name. I speak from experience, this happened to my sister, who for reasons too complicated to explain was told her first name was NameA when it was legally NameB. She went by her middle so it wasn't an issue until she started doing things like writing "NameA Last, but call me Middle" on job applications while providing the SSN of, according to the government, NameB Middle Last.  By the time people are applying for jobs they are pretty attached to their name, so it's not easy to make changes anymore. [/quote]

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