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What is an alias? Aliases of writers. The origin of aliases

What is an alias? Many people have probably heard this word, but represent its meaning, meaning, origin and other interesting features only in general terms. In the article we will get acquainted with this concept in more detail, and you will learn what a pseudonym is and what it is eaten with.

Definition

An alias is a fictitious, untrue name that a person uses to avoid giving out real data recorded in documents.

Foreign and Russian aliases are equally good, but some people (both "our" and foreigners) deliberately use foreign letters to make the finished new name look as original as possible. Famous personalities, "glowing" on the screens, have a more full name: an artistic pseudonym or, as it is called in another way, a stage name.

Synonyms of the word alias: nickname, nickname, nickname. They do not always mean the same, but they can be called the most approximate to the concept under discussion.

Origin

Despite the similarity of the terms "nickname" and "pseudonym", they are still slightly different. At least that the nicknames appeared earlier. What is an alias? A fictitious name. A nickname is also a name, but most often given to a person by other people for some of its features and characteristics.
The origin of pseudonyms can be traced even before the appearance of a book of products, but the roots come precisely from writers' ranks. It was the authors who first began to use fictitious names. However, even earlier people began to use nicknames, as already mentioned a little higher. Just once a new name "glued" to a person, ridiculing his shortcomings or emphasizing his dignity, as a result of which the real data was completely forgotten. Then began more active use of both nicknames and pseudonyms, and now they are unlikely to ever give up.

Why use aliases

The reasons can be different. The most common ones are:

1. Unwillingness to shine with real data before the public. For this, again, there are branches. Unwillingness can be caused by:

  • Fear of persecution. Not always people write or put on the public court something that everyone will like. Sometimes real data is revealed, for example, about criminals, which means that someone may wish to find a writer and take revenge. To track down a person with a real name is much easier than to hide behind a pseudonym.
  • Insufficient status. Especially it concerned the former centuries. People from dysfunctional families could not be taken seriously by the people only because of their origin. This is unfair and insulting, so the authors had to hide their surname.
  • Fear of "fucking up". Novice authors never know exactly how critics and ordinary people will react to their work - success is waiting for them or failure, so the pseudonyms inspired more confidence: if the "first pancake" fails, you can try again, and no one will be prejudiced because of the previous miss .
  • Natural modesty. Not everyone becomes known to people for the sake of glory, some of it comes almost by accident. In order to protect some strangers from themselves, modest people take pseudonyms.

2. Dislike of the real name. Due to the fact that the real name given by the parents does not like the person, but for personal reasons he does not want to change it officially (for example, due to paperwork with documents), the author can translate his dreams about the new name in a different way.

3. The inconsistency of the real name. The real name can be up to impossibility banal and ordinary, because of what its owner has to come up with a creative pseudonym, which really can please the public. This applies to all well-known actors, singers and musicians, as well as more highly specialized people such as fortune tellers, cooks and local (urban, rural, roadside) "stars."

4. Entertaining character of a new name. It can manifest in:

  • Mysterious pseudonym. People are trying to unravel the mystery that is hidden behind an unusual and strange name, trying to understand why the author chose just such a nickname, etc.
  • Associations. The author specially creates a pseudonym, which will involuntarily be associated with most people and / or be identified with someone / something.
  • Curiosity. The author carefully disappears, leaving behind itself only a pseudonym, because of what people become incredibly interested in who is behind this or that nickname, what kind of person, what he is real, etc.

5. "Automatic" alias. This option applies to those who do not invent themselves a nickname. Serial killers, for example, famous thieves or other people who appear with a pseudonym due to the public and the media, belong to this category.

Who most often have pseudonyms?

Before

It was worth one person to call himself a fictitious name, as others began to follow him. Most often, pseudonyms were used by public figures, who are constantly in the mind, which people know. It can be writers and writers who do not want to shine on the covers of books with real data, singers and singers who simply can not speak with the name Ivan Ivanov , as it is too commonplace and commonplace, artists and people of other creative professions, become world-famous criminals (take The same Jack the Ripper), as well as political figures (for example, Lenin).

Now

Of course, modern writers and people of art and other areas continue to use pseudonyms, as before, since it will never go out of fashion amongst the stars, but another category of people has been added that almost have to use this method of hiding a real name. Aliases are used by almost every more or less active Internet user: nicknames that you regularly need to come up with in multiple registrations are the same aliases.

How to come up with a pseudonym?

Whether you are an author or simply do not know how to come up with a new nickname, it will be useful for you to know about some secrets that allow you to come up with a new name:

  1. Own qualities. A smart man, a daredevil, a hero, a fool, etc. - all these words characterize a person. By determining their merits or demerits - for those who are not alien to self-irony - you can come up with any nicknames and concepts close to them.
  2. Compiling from existing names / aliases new. Marilyn Manson, for example, took a name from singer Marilyn Monroe - a sex symbol, singer and actress - and the name of Charles Manson - once a famous killer.
  3. Anagrams. With the help of this literary technique, that is, by rearranging syllables, sounds or letters, you can create an incredible number of new, unusual, but at the same time puzzling aliases. The sniper can turn into Nissper, Truth to Hell Warp, etc. Sometimes it's almost impossible to learn the old word in a new word.

Writers (and poets) using aliases

The most common is to sign books not by one's own name from writers. But, since these people are connected with literature, they get really interesting nicknames. The aliases of writers are often well remembered and sound original. But not enough to shock the reader, and therefore it is not always immediately clear whether the false or present name before us.

So, the most famous pseudonyms of writers:

  • Agatha Christie.
  • Andrei Bely.
  • Anna Akhmatova.
  • Arkady Gaidar.
  • Boris Akunin.
  • Voltaire.
  • Demian Poor.
  • Jack London.
  • Igor Severyanin;
  • Korney Chukovsky.
  • Lewis Carroll.
  • Max Fry.
  • Maksim Gorky.
  • Mark Twain.
  • O.Henry.
  • Richard Bachmann.
  • Sasha the Black.

Actors and TV hosts using aliases

This includes all those who shine on screens or in theaters. By the way, the modern world allows you to offer your attention not only to film and / or theatrical actors or TV hosts, but also videobloggers.

So, the well-known "screen" personalities using aliases:

  • Antonio Banderas.
  • Bruce Lee.
  • Demmy Moor.
  • Jackie Chan.
  • Jodie Foster.
  • Ilya Maddison.
  • Kate Clapp.
  • Marilyn Monroe.
  • Nicolas Cage.
  • Roma Acorn.
  • Sophia Loren.

Singers and musicians using aliases

Of course, in addition to writers and telescreens, fictitious names are used by singers, of whom there are also many. The most famous:

  • Alain Apin.
  • Bono.
  • Vera Brezhneva.
  • Dima Bilan.
  • Jeanne Friske.
  • Masha Rasputin.
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer.
  • Marilyn Monroe.
  • Marilyn Manson.
  • Tina Karol.
  • Freddie Mercury.
  • Elton John.

Other figures

Others are all the rest: criminals, politicians, circus artists, etc.

So, the most famous and best pseudonyms of people not related to literature, music and cinema:

  • Jack the Ripper.
  • David Copperfield.
  • Joseph Stalin.
  • Konstantin Stanislavsky.
  • Leon Trotsky.
  • Lenin.
  • Paracelsus.
  • Pele.
  • Sandro Botticelli.
  • Student.
  • Tintoretto.

Conclusion

Now you know what a pseudonym is, moreover, you can come up with your own. The main thing is not to be afraid to show imagination - and then a new fictitious name will become truly attractive, interesting and memorable.

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