what do you mean, "original"?

[Reginald Ret]

It's very much like being in the middle of an argument with a woman and out of the blue you start calling her "sweetie".

That is an excellent example. Not only do i understand it intellectually now, but emotionally as well. :cringe:

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's very much like being in the middle of an argument with a woman and out of the blue you start calling her "sweetie".

That is an excellent example. Not only do i understand it intellectually now, but emotionally as well. :cringe:

Yay!

I mean, it's just a cultural quirk, but I'm glad I was able to convey it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Ok, so I do understand reducing the number of syllables when speaking to a friend, but I'd actually have to be living in Portland for about a year before I tried calling you "Kal". Which, perhaps, isn't a diminution more than a 'shortening'.

Which brings up another point. In face-to-face, IRL conversations, I can see shorter nicknames as an ease-of-use issue. But when it's a forum, there's really no added convenience to nicknames, and that only emphasizes the power-dynamic aspect.

People try it, from time to time.  I try to be gentle.

I actually realized that I do accept one diminutive of my name; plain old K. And one friend, perhaps due to some cosmic link, addresses me as a plural.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's funny, my name doesn't even HAVE a diminutive form, but I get people (almost always men) trying to diminutize it as a power play all the time. I'm like, seriously, did you just call me "Kallie"? BRB, Richtering my knives.

They get what they ask for.   

OH FUCK

I retract everything, best nickname EVER.

[GrannySmith]

It's very much like being in the middle of an argument with a woman and out of the blue you start calling her "sweetie".

That is an excellent example. Not only do i understand it intellectually now, but emotionally as well. :cringe:

Yay!

I mean, it's just a cultural quirk, but I'm glad I was able to convey it.

I get that too, but for me that would be incredibly annoying if it came with that known sarcastic facial expression:


I did not mean it like that, but rather like this:


though I do apologise for unknowingly insulting you Roger.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It's very much like being in the middle of an argument with a woman and out of the blue you start calling her "sweetie".

That is an excellent example. Not only do i understand it intellectually now, but emotionally as well. :cringe:

Yay!

I mean, it's just a cultural quirk, but I'm glad I was able to convey it.

I get that too, but for me that would be incredibly annoying if it came with that known sarcastic facial expression:


I did not mean it like that, but rather like this:


though I do apologise for unknowingly insulting you Roger.

S'okay.