No name Noviembre 30, 2007
Posted by Sarah in Caleidoscopio.Tags: name, nicknames, nombre, pseudónimos
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Nuestros nombres no siempre reflejan lo voluminoso de nuestras historias.
A veces pienso que deberíamos poder escoger nuestro nombre varias veces en la vida; de seguro iría cambiando indefinidamente según las batallas que vayamos ganando y los zapatos que vayamos perdiendo.
Al amanecer de nuestro mundo, se nos impone un nombre con mucho sentido para terceros. Tal vez por su armoniosa resonancia (usualmente el primer y segundo nombre combinan)o por rendir tributo a alguien más, ya venimos etiquetados antes de poder opinar. Muchos de estos nombres llevan deseos ocultos engastados en sus sílabas: belleza, sabiduría, fuerza, entereza….todo lo que un adulto hecho y derecho desearía portar en la propia piel. El problema de esto es que el título impuesto no siempre acierta…Los padres nos pintan un rostro que aún no conocen, nos dan cualidades que aún no son nuestras….y que tal vez nunca las sean…
Los nicknames, en cambio, son nombres más reales de los que aparecen impresos en un carnet de identidad. Estos se crean y se escogen siempre por algo, por las razones que sean. Nos identifican. Nos dan color, voz, vida. Nos dan libertad y la posibilidad de crear alianzas sinceras, porque nos muestran tal y como somos, sin clichés ni prejuicios alrededor. No pagamos impuestos por ellos, nadie espera que lo hagas,… y te brindan un suelo tibio para los que gustan de andar descalzos sobre la lluvia nueva…
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Season 4: Clip 7
Her nickname, Sweetie.
- LORELAI: Don’t tell me this is what it looks like.
- EMILY: It’s escargot.
- LORELAI: Ugh. That’s what it looks like.
- RORY: Snails?
- EMILY: Escargot.
- LORELAI: Slimy thing by any other name…
- RICHARD: They taste like garlic and butter.
- LORELAI: Don’t say “they.” Food should not have pronouns.
- RICHARD: Give it a try.
- LORELAI: But if I do and we’re having road kill for the main course, then I will already have used up my allotment of gross-out food for the day, so I’ll abstain.
- RICHARD: I guess we should strike escargot off the list of Friday night dinner foods.
- EMILY: Sweetie loved escargot. That’s funny how we remember those things.
- RICHARD: Hm.
- LORELAI: Sweetie?
- RORY: Sweetie who?
- EMILY: Sweetie Nelson, one of my oldest friends. She passed away yesterday.
- RORY: Oh, I’m sorry, Grandma.
- LORELAI: Yeah, I’ve heard you mention her.
- RORY: Was she sick?
- EMILY: She’d been ill for some time, but still…
- RICHARD: The family is pretty overwhelmed.
- EMILY: By the way, Davis called late today. The funeral is going to be Sunday.
- LORELAI: Was that her real name — Sweetie?
- EMILY: No, her name was Melinda. Sweetie was a nickname.
- LORELAI: Why?
- EMILY: What do you mean, why?
- LORELAI: I mean, how did they get Sweetie from Melinda?
- EMILY: They didn’t get Sweetie from Melinda. Sweetie is a nickname.
- LORELAI: Yes, I know Sweetie was a nickname, but usually, a nickname comes from a version of your name, or there’s a story behind the name or something.
- EMILY: She was sweet. That’s the story.
- LORELAI: Okay.
- EMILY: She had a very sweet nature.
- LORELAI: Hm.
- EMILY: Well, what kind of story did you want, Lorelai?
- LORELAI: No, that’s fine. She was sweet. They called her Sweetie. It’s a good story.
- EMILY: No, really. Exactly what kind of story about my recently departed friend would amuse you?
- LORELAI: Mom, it’s not to amuse me. It’s –
- EMILY: All right, fine. Sweetie’s father was a very poor man — so poor that Sweetie and her four siblings all had to sleep in a hollowed-out tree trunk because the house was only big enough for their parents. One winter, there was no food, so Sweetie crawled out of her trunk, wrapped her feet in newspaper, and walked forty miles in the snow to the nearest town, where she stumbled into a candy store. The owner took pity on her and gave her bags of candy, a dill pickle, and drove her back to her family. He promptly offered a job to her father, who gladly accepted and eventually owned that store and turned it into one of the most important candy emporiums in the world. And that is how she got the name Sweetie. There, how was that?
- LORELAI: Now, that was a pretty good story.
Sabes que me parece interesante que cuando a uno no le gusta su nombre o este no refleja quien uno es, deja que se impongan los apodos, mira y verás que eso sucede bastante.
Nos leemos.
en verdad es increible que haya gente que hasta lega acompenetrarse más con sus nicks que con sus nombres
por mi parte me gusta andar desclazo cuando no tengo que salir, de puntillas puedes pasar desapercibido