Yup. You name a child what you plan to call him/her, since full names are required and used in most places outside family (at school for example the child will be call by their full name, including any possible middle names). And since we don't usually use middle names there are many people with short names (I'm friends with
Ria, Dea,
Iva,
Mia, Ela,
Ema,
Lea,
Ivo,
Mio,
Pero,
Niko, Din,
Dan...). So if you don't like
Aleksandar, but love
Sasha, you''d have to use
Sasha, otherwise he'd be called
Aleksandar all the time.
Hope you get what I mean, I'm tired and rambling a bit.
This message was edited 10/29/2010, 4:00 PM