Americans love their abbreviations and nicknames. It’s fast, “efficient” and we don’t have to use up as much memory to recall them.

FBI .. CIA .. PTA .. OMG .. LMAO .. SOL

And as I recall, we also have a great capacity to adapt to our environments or better yet, adapt our environments to our needs. Think Human vs. Apes, Humans vs. Dinosaurs and so on.

So why not trust that we’ll be able to sort out what to call someone we meet and, you know, actually like.

Calling your son or daughter Edgar or Maureen when mother is from Greenland or Fiji is awkward.

Also, Dear Abby doesn’t actually exist. She is a composite. An algorithm if you will, carefully crafted that projects a persona onto the internet, who in real life isn’t anymore qualified to render perfect responses, than Frank the carpenter, or Prashant the prosthodontist.

Name your kid from the heart and it will all work out.