I'm changing my name to Princess Consuela Banana Hammock.
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
Elder ,'Power Play'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Aug 03, 2011 4:14:27 pm PDT #19183 of 30001
Because books.
Jesse - Aug 03, 2011 4:15:22 pm PDT #19184 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The Google+ naming things seem like a lot of BS. What's the thing about two names in one language? Does that mean like you can't use kanji for your first name and the English alphabet for your last? Because it reads like someone named Jacques von Trapp could get in trouble?
le nubian - Aug 03, 2011 4:20:43 pm PDT #19185 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I haven't been paying attention to the naming stuff, maybe I need to start. I wonder what bug got up Google's butt re: this?
Sophia Brooks - Aug 03, 2011 4:21:18 pm PDT #19186 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh- it is definitely BS. I just realized that it would have never occurred to me that N****** Brooks T***** was not "the name most people know me as". I mean, I would be unlikely to be targeted with that name, but still- not my legal name.
Jesse - Aug 03, 2011 4:23:50 pm PDT #19187 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
"the name most people know me as".
That just so explictly doesn't mean your legal name! I don't know why this makes me so crazy. Possibly because I am SUPER EFFING CRANKY and looking for a safe target.
meara - Aug 03, 2011 4:25:22 pm PDT #19188 of 30001
I figure a heck of a lot of people know me as meara. Others know me as Indy. And some know me as my legal name (quite a few of you probably mostly only know it due to FB!) And I answer to meara or Indy in person, as well as my "real" name, so....
Amy - Aug 03, 2011 4:32:25 pm PDT #19189 of 30001
Because books.
That just so explictly doesn't mean your legal name!
Right? My grandfather's name was Howard, and I didn't know it until I was in high school because everyone (my grandmother, everyone!) called him Pete. A nurse nicknamed Repeat when he was a kid in the hospital, and it stuck. He was Pete Lastname to the world. I thought his name was actually Peter.
SailAweigh - Aug 03, 2011 4:35:20 pm PDT #19190 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Yeah. My dad's first name is Dornis. Nobody calls him Dornis; his name is Bud to everyone who knows him. Would they make him use Dornis? It would be stupid.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 4:35:53 pm PDT #19191 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Let me not get started with the non-canonicity of the names of my family. My parents were insistent that we just get the one, and now sis is calling herself Savannah La Mar like it's nobody's business.
flea - Aug 03, 2011 4:37:14 pm PDT #19192 of 30001
information libertarian
Dornis is an awesome name (okay, weird, but awesome)! Is it from another language?
Similarly, my grandfather's first name is Ormon. He was known as Eddie as a child, and acquired Sam as a nickname in the navy. He's Sam to everyone but official documents, and has been since 1944 or so.