The Name Meme
Mar. 16th, 2004 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexxkayI've been busy lately, but starting to catch up...
If you call me:
Alexx -- you're in the majority.
Alex -- you don't interact with me on-line much or at all.
alexx_kay -- you know me primarily from LJ.
AlexxKay -- you probably know me from the forums at quartertothree.com.
Alexx Kay -- context is probably computer game design.
The Wolf -- you're an LG employee (and Pulp Fiction fan) whom I bailed out of several crises.
Xandrk -- the context is online, circa late 80s.
Alessandro -- the context is SCAdian, or else there are several other "Alex"s in hearing range.
Alessandro the Storyteller -- the context is SCAdian, formal.
Uncle Alex/Alessandro -- you want me to to tell you a story.
Alexander Scott -- you are either A) in an SCA context from many years ago, or B) my mother, angry at me, from even longer ago than that.
Alexander Scott Kay -- context is either high formality mundania, or mom being very mad at me.
Mr. Kay -- you're probably an Evil Telemarketer
Al -- you are actively trying to annoy me -- and likely succeeding.
AKay -- you're one of the Irrational people who haven't figured out that I don't like that name.
Zander -- you are my dad, being funny.
Xander -- you are my wife, being endearing (many other endearments are not included here, in respect of people wih low tolerance for cuteness).
If you call me:
Alexx -- you're in the majority.
Alex -- you don't interact with me on-line much or at all.
alexx_kay -- you know me primarily from LJ.
AlexxKay -- you probably know me from the forums at quartertothree.com.
Alexx Kay -- context is probably computer game design.
The Wolf -- you're an LG employee (and Pulp Fiction fan) whom I bailed out of several crises.
Xandrk -- the context is online, circa late 80s.
Alessandro -- the context is SCAdian, or else there are several other "Alex"s in hearing range.
Alessandro the Storyteller -- the context is SCAdian, formal.
Uncle Alex/Alessandro -- you want me to to tell you a story.
Alexander Scott -- you are either A) in an SCA context from many years ago, or B) my mother, angry at me, from even longer ago than that.
Alexander Scott Kay -- context is either high formality mundania, or mom being very mad at me.
Mr. Kay -- you're probably an Evil Telemarketer
Al -- you are actively trying to annoy me -- and likely succeeding.
AKay -- you're one of the Irrational people who haven't figured out that I don't like that name.
Zander -- you are my dad, being funny.
Xander -- you are my wife, being endearing (many other endearments are not included here, in respect of people wih low tolerance for cuteness).