Yeah! But in our defense, we don't use diminutives on official papers much nowadays (apart form names that are in diminutive form originally -like
Danica) like the Brits seem to do. So no
Alfie,
Evie,
Gracie, etc. for us. But we would use
Ben or
Maks if we didn't want him to be called
Benjamin or
Maksimilian.
The diminutive forms were popular in my grandmother's generation and there are a lot of older women named -
Barica,
Marica,
Dragica,
Katica... (the thing is, they were all called
Bara,
Mara,
Draga,
Kata... when they grew up). It's considered very dated now.
This message was edited 10/29/2010, 4:15 PM