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Topic	People that go by a shortened or different name - how did you decide?
Evening_Dragon 06/19/25 11:47:18 AM #20:	Derwood posted... We purposely gave our kids names that can't easily have a nickname. I am also of the mind that if you have a kid and you intend to call him Ben that you should just name him Ben, not Benjamin I think it's good to have a casual version of your formal title. It's an immediate, if small, factor of being approachable. And then when you need to be formal and authoritative, well, you have that. --- And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your span of life? It's Guide <cite>Evening_Dragon posted [p:985492844] in People tha... [t:81001205]...</cite> <quote>Derwood posted... </cite><quote>We purposely gave our kids names that can't easily have a nickname.I am also of the mind that if you have a kid and you intend to call him Ben that you should just name him Ben, not Benjamin</quote>I think it's good to have a casual version of your formal title. It's an immediate, if small, factor of being approachable. And then when you need to be formal and authoritative, well, you have that. --- And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your span of life? It's Guide</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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