Do people call you by your surname?

No, but they usually spell Llanfair wrongly and pronouce Deira wrongly.

I thought it would be the other way round.

Spell it Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?

If I meet someone with a tricky first name (like Pep's), I generally check their profile to see if there's a nickname they favour. If I don't trust myself to type it, I can always copy & paste. I've met people with first names I've refused to type; usually people who give themselves titles instead of first names. If I have to talk to them, I use their surname.

By the way, it doesn't matter how simple your name is, someone will get it wrong and not just by typo. People often read my name, parse it and then type 'Kelly' or 'Kellie'. You can't win, even with the simplest name.

Oh yes, I get called "Agent" all the time.

When a first name is extraordinarily long (one guy I met in Ahern was called something like EmergencyRepair Kit), I often call them by their initials, eg EK. If they prefer to be called by another name they usually let me know. Conversely, I met someone on my sim who had a long first name, and when I did type it out in full she asked to just refer to her by her initials, JK, which she preferred.

If you have a strong preference for the name you want people to address you by (firstname, lastname, initials or nickname), you could always put it on the first line of your Profile first page.

Rock

I didn't know what it meant, until I found out while looking for something else.

i dont think i have ever been called 'stepford'.

People are more likely to call me Lexxie than Lexi, but I get both. At least one person, I am fairly certain, uses Lexxie as a nickname instead of a typo. A nickname longer than the name. heh

Oh, and there are other Lexxi's and Gynoid's out there, but I rarely run into either.

Good thing your last name isn't Shwing. (Could be embarrassing!)

To answer the question, no one calls me by my last name, except when they want to stick an apostrophe in.

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Does "Inky" work for you?

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Never happend to me. But sometimes a newbie does use the group title as my name, that happened a few times.


People call me Ben for short wich actually is my real name. Not that hard I suppose

On occasions I will get 'Hello Mr Spad' or just 'Hi Spad' .... but I correct them to just my first name ....

I can deal, it is better than Stinky!

Kids sometimes say Miss/Ms/Mrs Tiramisu.
Some (including strangers) greet me with: my fav(/orite) dessert (I cant really blame them, there is a reason I picked this name )
Some call me Eva T (cause there are two Eva's around where I go).
Many Americans cant see the A and call me Eve.

I answer to all .... and a few other names as well.


Someone mentioned that when people have titles as first names they call them by surname, I generally do too. I dont see why I should call some stranger Master or Boss or something similar.

Never by my last name. People call me Ris or Rizzy usually. Rizzy actually came about from me correcting live musical artists all the time, who said my name over the stream wrong. Many of them pronounce it Rise - awn. But it's Riz - ee - awn. A few of them got fed up and just called me Rizzy, and it stuck lol.

Offline, people will call me by my last name sometimes, usually they are from the middle east.

For some reason, a number of people have called me "Snook" instead of "Snickers" (or even "Snick" or "Snicks" which I'd prefer to Snook)

Most say "Gummi" except a few irrepressibles like Sindy, who say "Gums". I always have my title set to "Doktor" because the full RL nickname I got landed with was "Doktor Gummi"... I's actually a near-foolproof juve spotter name, because those of a youthful american bent can't resist making passing yuk-yuks around Gummi Bears, which we do not have in Europe - but at least they think I am charming, avuncular, and silly instead of being twisted, perverse and psychopathic.

Though they get that version fairly quickly...

Curious that no one posted this before me, but long before I ever heard your
surname I learned it has a far different meaning elsewhere.

As one enters Kuala Lumpur (Indonesia) Airport, large signs adorn the walls
stating "DADA IS DEATH!".

Not suggesting the OP, of course, but rather that DADA is the term given to
illegal drugs there, where leniency is not part of their culture.

Avoid KL. It's not a fun place.

Nop. Besides in the Star Trek RP sim where calling people by their surnames is the rule.

I am very happy with "Monalisa" because it is easy to remember, easy to type and easy to pronounce in voice, in almost any language.

It happens occasionally. Here in the forum I know of at least one poster who usually calls everyone by their last name, and others do it in jest, faking sterness or anger, and I do it too. It's not uncommon in RL either where I live. In my family , it is a practice for the women to call the men by the last name when peeved at them. My mother did it quite often.

I'm often greeted as Mr. Uriza.

I've never heard someone calling me "Bracken"

There is one exception to the rule here in the forums from time to time these days.

It happens routinely if I visit Caledon or certain formal ballrooms. But there the customary address to strangers is "Mr X" or "Ms X" rather than using first names. Aside from that, everybody calls me Shirley, occasionally adding the obvious joke from Airplane.

I've also met a few avatars who are routinely called by their last names because their first names are difficult or impossible to pronounce.

Some of them probably DID bring over their handles from some other online context. And it's harder to get simple first names now than it was in the Olden Daisies, because LL doesn't retire last names nearly as quickly.

The majority of my interaction is with customers & clients and I seem to get called Mr. Gorky an awful lot. This has increased more and more over the years and I figure you may gain more respect the older you get or you may gain more respect the more successful you are or appear to be. Whatever the reason I don’t like it. I speak to allot of people and get all sorts into my stores. Occasionally I will have to communicate with someone with a rather unfortunate first name like "Horny" or "Hardon" or "RimLicker" which is the one I had today. I always call them by their surname as it just seems wrong slipping RimLicker into a sentence when I am trying to sell them something.