18.08.2005 18:26
nicknames
I have been collecting nicknames during all my life. Mostly because everybody thinks that "Magdalena" is just too long and also because I grew up in Bern, where it is very much unusual to call anybody by his full name. The Bernese dialect contains standardized changes to girls and boys names. Sometimes the nickname version is even longer than the original name. It's just a matter of culture. And you are immediately spotted as a snobby outsider, if you don't use them and/or think that it is a pity they make something so ugly out of such pretty names.
Anyway, I normally don't present myself by a nickname and if people ask, I tell them they should just make something up themselves. I think it's funny, even there were some I never liked.
Just to give you an idea:
Nena, Lena, Maegi, Macarena, Malule (yeah, almost like the village), Mammut, Manu, Magde, MacD...
I just want to add a new one which matches quite well: headless nick.
