The Name Game

[kerravonsen]

Gacked from synaesthete7.

If you call me...

Kat then you know me from online up until I recently changed my email because of spammers, or you are a particular guy at work whom I've worked with for ten years.

Kathryn then you're a RL friend or acquaintance or workmate.

Kerravonsen you know me from LiveJournal or from online this year, or from my brief brush with IM.

Rubykat then you were either on the same certain mailing lists with me in the nineties, or are associated with Sourceforge or CPAN.

perlkat then you've emailed me about my Perl modules.

K.J. you are a member of my immediate family, or a particular lass I shared house with in the early nineties.

Katarina Ballerina you are my mother.

Mrs. [Last name] you are a telemarketer. click

Ms. [Last name] you are a business.

Kathryn [Last name] you are an SF convention.

Kathryn [Middle name] you are one of my cousins or a member of the family of the person after whom I was named.

Kathy you are an obnoxious person to whom I have just been introduced. I will either pounce on you or seethe quietly.