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Nicknames, and the Etiquette Surrounding Them

TheJediBrah

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Oh tbh I always thought his name was like "AyeBee" or something cause he's, like, South African and they have weird names

edit: "Abraham Benjamin" according to google

huh almost sounds like a normal name, albeit from the 1850s
 
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Victor Ian

International Coach
Such a needed thread. I'm giving this 5 likes! People the world over devolve into purer suck faces everyday and they need to know how to avoid it. Everyone wants their moment of fame for having invented something. They are insatiable. Well **** off! You can not eat what has already been eaten - unless you are a zombie and eat people.

I am sick of this little upstart called Abraham Benjamin de Villiers being called AB. He is NOT AB - at best, he is ADV, ABDV. Did you see any of us call Allan 'AR'? No! Because that is not how you make an 'initials' nickname. His parents did not call him AB so why the **** should you? What possible delusion do people suffer where they will think they have the credibility to tag anything with an ill fitting moniker? It's a rhetorical question - but if you must know the answer, it is NONE - you driveling **** wit.

Poor Abraham DeVilliers. I am not sure whether he is a charlatan, who has accepted a name he is beneath, or a poor man who has numb skulls for supporters that he can't reason with. Either way, when people hear him called by his stolen name, the one thing it is never, is 'his' alone. What an insult for a player to play with.

There are a certain batch of names that are copyright free, if you will - they are open to use for anyone. Negative names such as ****, **********, ****wit, jerkoff, mother ****er and so on can be applied at anytime with no need to check if someone else owns it. However, when your name is not an insult, you should use proper etiquette and desist in using a nickname twice.
 

Burgey

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Such a needed thread. I'm giving this 5 likes! People the world over devolve into purer suck faces everyday and they need to know how to avoid it. Everyone wants their moment of fame for having invented something. They are insatiable. Well **** off! You can not eat what has already been eaten - unless you are a zombie and eat people.

I am sick of this little upstart called Abraham Benjamin de Villiers being called AB. He is NOT AB - at best, he is ADV, ABDV. Did you see any of us call Allan 'AR'? No! Because that is not how you make an 'initials' nickname. His parents did not call him AB so why the **** should you? What possible delusion do people suffer where they will think they have the credibility to tag anything with an ill fitting moniker? It's a rhetorical question - but if you must know the answer, it is NONE - you driveling **** wit.

Poor Abraham DeVilliers. I am not sure whether he is a charlatan, who has accepted a name he is beneath, or a poor man who has numb skulls for supporters that he can't reason with. Either way, when people hear him called by his stolen name, the one thing it is never, is 'his' alone. What an insult for a player to play with.

There are a certain batch of names that are copyright free, if you will - they are open to use for anyone. Negative names such as ****, **********, ****wit, jerkoff, mother ****er and so on can be applied at anytime with no need to check if someone else owns it. However, when your name is not an insult, you should use proper etiquette and desist in using a nickname twice.
Victor Ian gets it. This is superb.
 

StephenZA

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His name isn't AB, it's Abraham whatever it is. His nickname should be MartinnJohn.
Well he was known as AB well before he became a cricketer, nobody calls their friend Abraham Benjamin..... that's only what his mother calls him.
 

Burgey

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I can understand him being called that by his friends at that level. The point is, once he joins the international cricket cabal, he needed to drop it because it was taken. I have explained this in one of my quoted posts in the OP to the thread.

It's like walking into a dressing room for the first time and sitting down in the captain's designated space. It's not on.
 

Victor Ian

International Coach
Well he was known as AB well before he became a cricketer, nobody calls their friend Abraham Benjamin..... that's only what his mother calls him.
His friends failed nickname class. When you make a nickname, you shorten it. Abraham should have been called Abe.

And no one in today's world has any use of the middle name. That is kind of like, to names, what the Coccyx is to the body. It is a carryover of an earlier epoch but not needed now, and never mentioned.

In fairness, to Abraham, it is possible, his friends had named him correctly, borrowing from Australian Nicknames ettiquete. We will often, after having made a nick name, add an "e" to the end, much like you see with Burgey. However, this should then be written as Abie and when spoken, with a noticable joining of 'A' and 'b' to distinguish it from A.B.
 

Burgey

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Mate, I had the one true BJ just the other night, and it didn't look like that.
 

flibbertyjibber

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Does all this **** really matter in the grand scheme of things?

Anyone who gets upset or annoyed by the use of a nickname by another person either has issues or just way too much time on their hands. Such a non thing to get wound up by.
 

Victor Ian

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It just dawned on me that there is one group of people who do make nicknames out of the initials of the first and middle names. These people are the Americans. (take a minute to vomit if you must). Seeing as we are all cricket fans here, who hate Americanisms and adore Britishness, this fact on it's own should encourage people to stop using a two initials nickname for Abraham.
 

Victor Ian

International Coach
Does all this **** really matter in the grand scheme of things?

Anyone who gets upset or annoyed by the use of a nickname by another person either has issues or just way too much time on their hands. Such a non thing to get wound up by.
Nah man. This is a big issue. We have to be clear about who we are talking. These upstarts who misappropriate names cause lots of confusion and angst. Think of it as fake branding. That is a very big issue. They have laws about that.
 

TheJediBrah

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Does all this **** really matter in the grand scheme of things?

Anyone who gets upset or annoyed by the use of a nickname by another person either has issues or just way too much time on their hands. Such a non thing to get wound up by.
You realise it's a joke right? No one is actually upset or annoyed
 

Daemon

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Does all this **** really matter in the grand scheme of things?

Anyone who gets upset or annoyed by the use of a nickname by another person either has issues or just way too much time on their hands. Such a non thing to get wound up by.
How could you be posting for 7 years and still think Burgey's genuinely upset at this
 

StephenZA

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Fortunately we in South Africa don`t have to follow the rules of Australian etiquette. Much like JP Duminy is known as JP, it is common in afrikaans to give double barrel names, largely coming from french huguenot connection, and then using the abbreviation. Pretty common here in SA. It is unfortunate that de Villers had the same moniker as Allan Border which appears to upset people, but he did not give the name to himself.
It is largely the SA media that calls him AB (cause its his name for us) and then it got picked up internationally. If you want to have a go at the cricket forum (who should know better) for using it sometimes so be it...

I personally think that Burgey is just upset because he used to be able to use AB and now has to use TOTAB for clarity and this requires an extra 3 letters in every post he makes...
 

straw man

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Mate, I had the one true BJ just the other night, and it didn't look like that.
Was probably a fake. You should open your eyes next time.

Though if you don't want to do that or are unsure you can always just picture Bradley John Watling in your minds eye.
 

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