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Originally posted by dtb
Man, your ideas just keep getting better and better (and you are annoyingly always at least one step ahead, darn you!). Do you think you'll go the route of adhering a large letter to all your garments and other fine washables?
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I'm not sure. I'm still working on my logo.
I have a friend who has been attempting for the past couple of years to change from Jeff to J (I think no period, but I can't recall for sure). He decided there were too many Jeffs in the world (at least 3 in the small company that he works for) and he's never liked the way it worked with his last name. I'm not very good at calling people who change their names by something new, so I still say Jeff at least 1/2 the time. Plus his nickname with me is "Hot Jeff" (these nicknames really pissed off "Cold Jeff" at the time of naming), and for some reason "Hot J" just doesn't work as well for me.
My sister decided to change the pronounciation of her name in her twenties. She decided that the pronounciation given by our parents was mid-western and wrong*, so she adopted a more (in my opinion) snooty sounding pronounciation. I still use the original pronounciation (when we are speaking, which is not much of late) because I think it is unfair to try to change the rules on someone after they've been calling you something for over 20 years. And I think she's being a bit pretentious. I did enjoy the conversation when she told my mom that she and dad had mispronounced her name for all these years though. Good stuff.
*her name was more popular than mine in the early 1970s, and now might not even be on the Top 1000 (I didn't check the lower half to find out). she is not a trendsetter.
