Username meme (invented by navrins)

[chanaleh]

You picked a LiveJournal name. It's probably not your real name. What does it mean to you, and why did you pick it?

It's a diminutive of my Hebrew name, Chana-Rivka. I identify fairly strongly with my Hebrew name; as many of you know, or most of you may have noticed, I wear it on a chain around my neck at all times. (Though as chaiya has pointed out, I don't necessarily respond to it in conversation, so maybe it's not so internalized as all that. Maybe if more people tried, I'd get used to it. :-)

My real name doesn't lend itself to diminution very well, so I've never had a nickname in regular RL use. And the only other regular username/nickname I've ever had was taken when I signed up on LJ -- not that I minded too much.

Comments

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

*grin* I didn't use my standard nickname either, becuase 90% of the places I try to use it, it's taken. And here, where I didn't bother to try, it isn't. Go fig. :)