I used to use my nickname (Ally - not the ally, but not Calista Flockhart either. It's kinda pronounced like "Ali" with two l's) on online boards but I changed it about two years ago because that's when I started to dislike strangers (actually only the ones I don't like) addressing me so casually.
That was when me and my friend where in a phase where we rewatched "The Moomins" and "Mumrik" is one of the versions of "Snufkin" used in Germany. I don't like to remember a lot of different screen names so I just use it almost everywhere.
My real name is Angelica - spelled English, pronounced German though I don't mind the English pronounciation. Only older relatives and official documents (except when they want something from a certain Angelika) call me that.
As to how it got to Ally - I strongly dislike the short versions of my name I got called in my lifetime and abandoned Engel (German for Angel) when I broke up with a group of "friends", so someone got frustrated and said, "I'm just gonna call you Ally" as a sort of joke but it stuck. I don't really like it that much anymore and I'm slowly trying to convince people not to. Quite a few people still think it's my real name - and are deeply disappointed when they learn it's not.
An English friend calls me Ace though, which I like a lot. 🙂
Which do I prefer? My screen name (never really got other versions for that) or Ace, I'd say.
That was when me and my friend where in a phase where we rewatched "The Moomins" and "Mumrik" is one of the versions of "Snufkin" used in Germany. I don't like to remember a lot of different screen names so I just use it almost everywhere.
My real name is Angelica - spelled English, pronounced German though I don't mind the English pronounciation. Only older relatives and official documents (except when they want something from a certain Angelika) call me that.
As to how it got to Ally - I strongly dislike the short versions of my name I got called in my lifetime and abandoned Engel (German for Angel) when I broke up with a group of "friends", so someone got frustrated and said, "I'm just gonna call you Ally" as a sort of joke but it stuck. I don't really like it that much anymore and I'm slowly trying to convince people not to. Quite a few people still think it's my real name - and are deeply disappointed when they learn it's not.
An English friend calls me Ace though, which I like a lot. 🙂
Which do I prefer? My screen name (never really got other versions for that) or Ace, I'd say.
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Perny
I KNEW it was from Snufkins!
Professor Walsh
You know that he's "Snusmumriken" in Swedish, right?