I loathe people addressing me by my last name. I absolutely detest it. It drives me batty. My last name is not my name. I am not in an English boarding school. And it's not like there are other people in uni who share my first name. If nothing else, the use of my surname in conversation is conclusive proof that the speaker is not someone I'm very fond of, since my close friends never use it. My close friends all address me by my correct and full first name, strangely enough, despite many nicknames having been invented for me over the years, some of which are still in use.
Come to think of it, unlike many other people, the use of nicknames for me is an indicator of emotional distance, not proximity.
In any case, I'm going to use some excuse to change my surname in the future. It's a rubbish surname, and I doubt it'll cause substantial harm for me to change my surname if, say, I get married or something. (Yes, I am aware that I wouldn't ordinarily change my surname in such a situation. So what?) In addition to ridding me of this ridiculous thing, it will also enable me to be completely untraceable, since possible blasts from the past will have no idea that I've changed my name, or, even if they do, they won't know what I've changed it to.
It's too much to ask, though, that my parents also have no idea what I've changed my name to, isn't it?
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you do have an awfully formal last name..when used unembellished. :P
i loathe it too actually, esp. since it be my father's name, something the north indians refuse to recognize/acknowledge. if it were a family name, i'd have at least some affinity to it. tch.
That's exactly the same situation I'm in. Nobody else in my family shares my last name, since nobody else shares my father, so I don't see it as a great break from my family if I change it.
I want to hear you try to embellish my last name. This should be interesting.
so what are you looking to change it to?
thomas zwitgilyronimus?
We'll see. This is why marriage is such a convenient excuse.
Perhaps I'll be all faux-English and adopt a double-barrelled surname.
thomas chesty-braidcrusher.
Yes, that should get me taken very seriously.
In all the wrong places.
Thos, Mallu names are terribly predictable. I have vivid recollections of the Empress of Trivandrum telling me that you get your fathers first name as your last name, and your grandfathers name as your first name or some such combination where people finally end up with Mathew Mathew Mathew.
Incidentally, why don't you like being called after a Japanese War Criminal. I do have locus when it comes to "affectionate" nicknames.
Er, because it got really old really fast?
Seriously, though, it's just that none of my close friends call me that any more. And it's not that exciting to be the namesake of a Japanese war criminal, especially not one who was sentenced to death, in these Iraq-ridden times.
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