Nicknames

I was listening to two friends talking today and they were talking to each other by their nicknames.

Now question is why do we use them? I mean is it too hard to say the actual name? or is it out of love and friendliness (which i dont see the relevance to giving a different name to the person for) or what exactly.

Sometimes the nickname isnt shorter or nicer for that matter.

Like my friends' name is Sarah and her nickname can be very often "Sarsour". Isnt that a lot longer than her actual name? Let alone if you look too closely to it.. it could mean "cockroach" in some dialects! Thank God not ours.

And other names like Karim can be "Kiko"! I mean personally to me and some other moms this refers to "poop" when talking to your children on this side of earth.

There are so many names. Like my name...the amount of nicknames i have. My name is a 4 lettered name "heba" and yet my nickname can range from "habhooba" or "hooby" or "poopa" (which is a longer word for poop to some people) or "bobba" which i totally hate. Or some other names that are related to my personality like "Dory" from Finding Nemo coz my memory is terrible and "Super" coz im the IT super user for my department at work (But that nickname ofcourse is used at work only)

So you see.. i dont mind the nicknames at all. Infact they usually sound nice and friendly and even i give nicknames to people. But i was just wondering why we have the urge to do that!

What do you think?

It's weird isnt it??

Comments

Queen of Shiba said…
hehehe...true that!!
I can't help but call people by their nicknames..just can't stick to their real names!As u said, an urge to manipulate any name into something longer (not necessarily cuter) or into something that is totally different!
I love nicknames:-D
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