People who keep using your name, annoying??! !!

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Not only do I have a weird reaction to hearing my own name too many times, but I find myself avoiding using other people's names. "Hey," "man," "dude," etc. all have preference over the name of the person I am addressing. Only when I am talking about someone who isn't present, or I have to get the attention of someone in a crowd will I use their name. I think it stems from a mild phobia of calling someone the wrong name, but I do it even with people I know very well, and have known for a long time.

Does anyone else find themselves doing this?

Any use of your name when it's already clear that you are the one being spoken to is superfluous and unnecessary. Even if only once.

People who do this may attempt to justify this irritating practice by claiming it helps them remember peoples' names, or that it sounds 'intimate' to the person being spoken to, etc. Someone above quoted Dale Carnegie who wrote that a person's name was the "sweetest and most important sound" to them. That's a bunch of crap. The bottom line is that people who enjoy w*king other peoples' names seem to derive a sense of self-importance from it, since in our culture the tradition is that only someone in a position of authority (such as your mom, dad, school teacher, etc) should use your name in such a manner. So it is very pretentious for anyone else to do it.

That is why pretentious people do it.

As for the Carnegie quote, it's from a book called "How to Make Friends and Influence People." Isn't it creepy that someone would make use of a technique, such as w*king your name, to influence you?

Someone above wrote that you should ask the perpetrator to stop. In my experience, name w*kers tend to be highly defensive about their practice when confronted. It's like you are infringing on some divinely ordained right they have when you ask them to stop using your name superfluously. It becomes clear that they just can't stand to lose the ability to assert higher status over you by w*king your name. This just underscores the point that the practice is pretentious.

Another fact that underscores this point is that people tend to do it when arguing, to express the idea that the listener is immature.

What can you do about it? My response has been to myself use my own name, in place of the pronoun 'I' whenever speaking to the name w*ker. But you have to do it for a while before they get the point and back off. Using your own name instead of 'I' is not only annoying to the name w*ker, it also reverses the higher-status thing because it's like saying to your kid "Daddy wants you to go to bed now" instead of "I want you to go to bed now."

Hope this helps.

Someone above quoted Dale Carnegie who wrote that a person's name was the "sweetest and most important sound" to them. That's a bunch of crap.
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As for the Carnegie quote, it's from a book called "How to Make Friends and Influence People." Isn't it creepy that someone would make use of a technique, such as w*king your name, to influence you?

The bottom line is that people who enjoy w*king other peoples' names seem to derive a sense of self-importance from it, since in our culture the tradition is that only someone in a position of authority (such as your mom, dad, school teacher, etc) should use your name in such a manner. So it is very pretentious for anyone else to do it.

My response has been to myself use my own name, in place of the pronoun 'I' whenever speaking to the name w*ker. But you have to do it for a while before they get the point and back off. Using your own name instead of 'I' is not only annoying to the name w*ker, it also reverses the higher-status thing because it's like saying to your kid "Daddy wants you to go to bed now" instead of "I want you to go to bed now."

Hope this helps.

I can also add that this whole practice is integral to "identity thinking", which in turn is a key tool in negotiating a world of hierarchal structures.
It's all about power exchanges.
Be very suspect when someone is doing this.

or that it sounds 'intimate' to the person being spoken to, etc.

Not only do I have a weird reaction to hearing my own name too many times, but I find myself avoiding using other people's names. "Hey," "man," "dude," etc. all have preference over the name of the person I am addressing. Only when I am talking about someone who isn't present, or I have to get the attention of someone in a crowd will I use their name. I think it stems from a mild phobia of calling someone the wrong name, but I do it even with people I know very well, and have known for a long time.

Does anyone else find themselves doing this?