¿Is your name ruined forever?

Not that it was really annoying, but people found a way to shorten an already short name.  From 'Eric' It went to 'Rick' from my early teens to my late twenties.  I am still called that every once in a while...

My last name is now the last name of a popular television character and it's rather irritating.  I miss the good old days when this show did not exist.

wow! very latin topic...

my name is marcos, which doesn't rime with anything, and my surname is Vrljicak (verleechack), which it's already difficult to pronunce to spanish speakers, so i was saved all my infancy for that one

Edited by Revan - December 20 2006 at 16:10

andu wrote: Nicolas is such a beautiful name... You should be more relaxed and you should use it as it is, Nicolas, and not shorten it.

It's not me, is everyone else. I hear my full name only if:

a) Girlfriend is mad at me.
b) I'm in a job enterview or something "official", like reneweing my national identity document.
c) I talk to myself.

I like my name, but I get all sort of crap instead of it. People plays with it by changing it to "Nikolai" (not so bad actually), "Nicomedes" (???), "Nicasio" (???!!) "Nicoleico" (???????!!!!!!), etc. Also, a local expresion "Ni cagando" (Something like "Not a chance in hell", though the actual meaning of the phrase is "I won't, not even defecating") also takes the place of my name. Funny thing is, this comes from friends (???). They are not my favourite people when this happens. Highschool was far worst, off course.
    

I also remember a schoolmate who's last name was "Araya". He was rather fat, and the verse for him was "Guatón Araya, se tira un peo y se desmaya" (something like "Fat James, he farts and then he faints"). This became a song with the time. Sad. Though some people found this to be quite funny, Araya wasn't happy about it at all.

Wow. Tough luck memo. 

Viajero Astral wrote: memowakeman wrote: Yeah, it has happened to me several times... my friends called me usually Memo ... and with it looots of jokes:   memo-lestas memo-je memo-ciono memo-herdez memo-rroides memo-nte en un caballo memelas   well obviously in spanish and you guys can understand and laugh about it, what a shame... but actually no one calls me like those this days... You forgot Memo-rroides

Erm, when I was much younger, my name was associated with the fool in the Russian fairy tales, but who reads those these days?

My name is hard to pronounciate by most non-Turks, other than that it has no bad connotations and also having a cool meaning; in English "Free", or "Independent". It is Özgür, and especially watching our USA'ian teacher trying to pronounciate my name is fun nowadays