truthbound
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Post by truthbound on May 26, 2015 4:40:58 GMT -5
So were my parents
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teen persuasion
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Post by teen persuasion on May 29, 2015 11:16:31 GMT -5
A conversation yesterday with a coworker brought this thread to mind again. We were talking about a patron who we know as Leo, but he'd gotten a replacement id card at another branch, and now his record had Charlie as his name. Apparently that's the name some people call him from a past job. So we weren't clear on what his real name was, or what he wanted to be called. Conversation moved on to using different names in different situations, and the difficulties. Coworker mentioned that whenever she was together with one of her large set of siblings she had to remember not to use their family nicknames: one sister was "Girly". My kids do similarly - DD1 always jokingly addresses DS2 (who towers over her) as "Boy". In both cases, the term had passed from word to proper name status. There is even a certain, special inflection given to "Boy", almost like a title. Sometimes his title is "THE Boy". After both of them had been out of the house at college for a while, DD3 started transferring the title to DS4, as if it were a hereditary honorific for the eldest male sibling at home. It's all in the tone and use - they are clearly using the words in a loving, friendly manner, and NOT as an insult or put down. They are an inside joke.
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