and/or (b) they sound youthful bc they are dimunitives of the more formal name (Theo instead of Theodore, Nico instead of Nicholas). OR, in a similar vein, you'll see tmascs putting trendy suffixes onto relatively normative names + choosing trendy spellings of normative names

lol I clearly am deficient in my knowledge of dimunitives.

I'm reading this omegaverse fic where the people refer to each other using dimunitives of alpha/beta/omega etc and it feels like reading someone write in like singaporean english, lah

All aliens should have short names so I can remember them - yak, mag, lap etc. Also no changing with dimunitives and nick names ala War and Peace. Have mercy on your readers, and a wonderful Christmas/Hanukkah/other holiday/Wednesday

Happy birthday Senator Bernard Sanders.

Apparently I'm🚫The Only1️⃣Who takes epitaphs Akin↦Boy&Dimunitives Meant↦Make Sure1️⃣Of The1️⃣st Resisters dragged Away4️⃣Protesting: Stayed in his "place."

RUN THE SENATE&STAY∵BIPARTISAN CONSENSOUS was achieved.
#WHATaCIVICmiricle
#BERNIEservesWTP

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I saw @dayofthemutants.bsky.social get an answer to "why waste time executing on [month-long] idea?" in four hours. I want to give asking a question on social a go! Maybe dimunitives are "what medium is for this question," or: "it's trans"? and: "should go back in the closet"? That tracks.
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By all means keep up the snotty dimunitives though! You're really showing your ass, sugar.

I understand that a TV show can't show the ugly ugly playoff beards but it's a tragedy we don't have it. Also a tragedy we don't use Russian dimunitives. That's it, that's the post

... Steampunk, then I might as well be what I act like... a Punk.

I am not ashamed of being reduced to Punk; I revel in it. 2/2

#namingconventions #dimunitives #nicknames