Half and short names

[Le_Pakistan]

Re: Half and short names

@muqawwee123

Is it only common in Desis to make short forms of the names like Hameed (Meeda), Sikandar (Sikku), Imran (Immi), Parveen (Peeno) besides calling people with nick names like Guddu, Pappu, Babloo, Gudia.

You name it and people have a short form of a name be it Abdullah / Abdul Hameed (Abdul) or Gullu / Ghulamoo for the name with prefix Ghulam (Ghulam Mustafa, Ghulam Hussain). Its sometimes irritating..

No it is not just a desi thing. It is very common in non-desis too.
Both the short form in names as the use of nick names.