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Names, names...
Jan. 2nd, 2005 06:32 pmThought Of The Day.
Came to the conclusion, during the New Years' party, that my name is officially the suckiest you can get while still being normal. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if it had been given to a kid whose birthday was... I don't know...
June, maybe?
As it is, I've had 'hollyberry', 'hollybush' and any number of 'deck the halls' or 'and the ivy' gags for most of my life - though I shook them off in sixth form I still cannot hear a carol without screaming in mental torture. It really, really, sucks. (Please excuse abuse of the word 'sucks' here. I'm just in the mood.)
I have a friend whose twin sister shares the name. He claims she never got teased over it. That's probably because a) their surname begins with an R and b) they're not Xmas kids.
And, because of the stupid ie ending, no-one ever spells it right without me correcting them.
Argh.
If I'd have known this would happen when I was a kid, I'd have just used my middle name and have been done with it. As it is, I have memories of insisting people call me Alice. For an afternoon, anyway. Maybe I should've stuck at it.
But what's in a name anyway?
Which is someone's real name? The one on their birth certificate or the one in their head? If I were to stop and say 'call me (whoever)' would that be my name? Is whatever people call me my name?
*thinks about Hodgesaargh the falconer out of the Discworld novels*
As long as I know it's me, does it matter?
And another one. Character names, too. I always find them every bit as awkward as real life ones. I take forever to settle - but then it wrecks me to change them for anything less than a notorious quadruple murderer showing up with the name.
One of my characters is currently wishing I'd called him Rosso - but it's just as hard to change as if he was real. What his name is, is his name. Even if I only realised the clash when it was too late :(
Another, I feel strange every time I type his. It's too fancy-fantasy - I mean, apostrophe and all - and the meaning's all wrong. But given that he's had the name for three and three quarters' fanfics, it's damn near impossible to change that. But I doubt very much he still responds to Link.
Came to the conclusion, during the New Years' party, that my name is officially the suckiest you can get while still being normal. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if it had been given to a kid whose birthday was... I don't know...
June, maybe?
As it is, I've had 'hollyberry', 'hollybush' and any number of 'deck the halls' or 'and the ivy' gags for most of my life - though I shook them off in sixth form I still cannot hear a carol without screaming in mental torture. It really, really, sucks. (Please excuse abuse of the word 'sucks' here. I'm just in the mood.)
I have a friend whose twin sister shares the name. He claims she never got teased over it. That's probably because a) their surname begins with an R and b) they're not Xmas kids.
And, because of the stupid ie ending, no-one ever spells it right without me correcting them.
Argh.
If I'd have known this would happen when I was a kid, I'd have just used my middle name and have been done with it. As it is, I have memories of insisting people call me Alice. For an afternoon, anyway. Maybe I should've stuck at it.
But what's in a name anyway?
Which is someone's real name? The one on their birth certificate or the one in their head? If I were to stop and say 'call me (whoever)' would that be my name? Is whatever people call me my name?
*thinks about Hodgesaargh the falconer out of the Discworld novels*
As long as I know it's me, does it matter?
And another one. Character names, too. I always find them every bit as awkward as real life ones. I take forever to settle - but then it wrecks me to change them for anything less than a notorious quadruple murderer showing up with the name.
One of my characters is currently wishing I'd called him Rosso - but it's just as hard to change as if he was real. What his name is, is his name. Even if I only realised the clash when it was too late :(
Another, I feel strange every time I type his. It's too fancy-fantasy - I mean, apostrophe and all - and the meaning's all wrong. But given that he's had the name for three and three quarters' fanfics, it's damn near impossible to change that. But I doubt very much he still responds to Link.
