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have you ever met someone with a really nice or pretty name... & they have a nickname that just does not do the name justice? or perhaps a name that you feel loses it's beauty when you break it down into smaller names or nicknames?

my friend has a son Julian, which i think is a really nice name. they almost always call him Jude or Lee. not that i particularly dislike either Jude or Lee, but i don't feel they do the name Julian justice. to me, it's one of those names that is really nice as a full name, not when you break it down into anything else :\