[Ansteorra] Nicknames in the SCA-starting a conversation

[Mike C. Baker]

Then there are the instances where the nick/short-form becomes an in-joke / 
familiar form identifying the era of your participation when someone first 
made your acquaintance... thus saith M'Chib

As a long-time participant with a researched-but-not-QUITE-registered name 
created following more or less Arabic practices, I handle this by 
introducing myself the first time with the long-form, including prefixed 
title, followed immediately by "And now you know why most people just call 
me Amra."

Considering that there have only been two of us in Ansteorra within my 
memory, makes it a little more likely they'll find the right one later on...

al-Sayyid Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra

Adieu, Amra / Pax ... Kihe / TTFN - Mike
kihebard at hotmail.com
Opinions?  I got some! (Curmudgeon-In-Training)


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From: "Tina Michael" <tinabetta at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 2:43 PM
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: [Ansteorra] Nicknames in the SCA-starting a conversation

> Back when I was a kid in school, long before I had ever heard of the SCA,
> my best girlfriend and I, both of us readers into Fantasy with a capital 
> F,
> came up with secret identities for ourselves. We did it so we could pass
> notes in class and if the teacher intercepted them we would not get 
> caught.
> I remember her's was Vanessa en Febra duBray and mine was Augustina 
> Johanna
> Elizabetta Michaela da San Germano. Most of it was just my real name
> fancied up a bit and that of a last name of a character in a book I was
> reading at time and liked the sound of. It had a ring to it. Well, when
> faced with the idea of a society name I just took that one and used it. I
> answer to it, right? But when I go up to people and say, "Hello, my name 
> is
> Augustina Johanna Elizabetta Michaela da San Germano", they invariably 
> say,
> "Bless you", or huh? or Oh my! When I was in Trimaris people called me
> Elizabetta and that was okay but still kinda funny with a Florida accent,
> it came out Elizabella or some such. So I just say call me Tina, all my
> friends do, which is true, they do. But I have been told not to use a
> shortened name or a nickname as that will be the only name you will be
> known by, but the way I see it, if someone see something neat I do and
> wants to comment on me they will make an effort to find my whole name out.
> I would do the same thing.
>  What do you think? Do you have a great long period or family name and go
> by something shorter and more friendly sounding?  Is using a nickname a
> detriment in the society or does it really matter?
>
> Lady Augustina Elizabetta blah blah blah da San Germano
> aka Tina
> -- 
> Any day above ground is a good day!