Re: CHAT: Shorter forms of names (was: Re: Russian names ...)

At 18:51 02/02/00 +0100, you wrote:
>
>Chris, Christo or Stoph? A short form for Kristoffer iver here is
>"stoffer". There used to be a French sit-com on national tv... ooh can't
>remember the name, but there was a 'Cri-cri' there, is that short for
>Christophe or Christian?
>
        Chris is possible, but looks too much like a name in an American soap :) .
So no thank you :) I already heard Stoph once or twice, but it seems rather
rare. 'Totof' is quite known, but a little too childish to be used except
in very informal situations. My family often calls me 'Titof', because when
my sister was younger, she couldn't tell my name and she made it first
'Tita' /tita/ and then 'Titof' /titOf/. It kind of struck, but I don't like
it to be used by people other than my family.

        And don't tell me you had "Hélène et les garçons"! (it's the name of the
French sitcom you were looking for). For the time it was famous in France,
I began to be called "Cri-cri d'amour" by everyone! It was so stupid a
surname! (well, it was such a stupid sitcom that it couldn't be otherwise)
Moreover, the name of the character was Christian, not Christophe, but
everyone used it with people whose name began with 'Chri'. Anyway, it's a
possible short form, but with a too heavy past to be used nowadays :) .

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