Re: Ath aeldhôf-vy!

En réponse à Dan Jones <dan@...>:

>
> As the subject line says (in Arvorec), I'm back.
Welcome back!

> "ooh, isn't this a nice place to discuss conlangy things..." ;o)
>
Hehe, it sure is ;)) .

>
> Also, going totally off-topic and thus negating everything I just said,
> but
> out of solidarity for Christophe Grandsire ;o),
Thanks! ;)) Thanks for destroying your credibility for me ;))) .

>
> Well, the way my other half and I got around this (not married in a
> legal
> sense but we still consider ourselves married- we had a pagan wedding
> and
> everything ;o) ) is by taking the first letter of each other's surname
> and
> using it as a middle initial. So he signs himself "Kristopher J Falkus"
> and
> I sign myself "Daniel-Bernard F Jones" (which is a mouthful at the best
> of
> times) or just "Dan F Jones". We thought that Jones-Falkus and
> Falkus-Jones
> sounded a bit, well, odd to say the least. Still that's what one gets
> for
> marrying a foreigner ;o)
>
Don't I know! ;)) But I don't think your solution would fit well with the
system here, nor with what we like :)) . Here, you usually don't give a middle
initial, unless you put only the initial of your first name, in which case you
normally give the initials of your first and middle names. So I am "Christophe
Grandsire" or "CA Grandsire", and my friend is "Jan Koevoets" or "JHM
Koevoets". I wouldn't know how to fit the "spouse's name as initial" idea in
there. And I don't like the looks of "Christophe K. Grandsire" :((( . No, we'll
probably just keep our names as they are :))) .

<shameless plug> By the way, I see that your other half is a Christophe! (OK, a
Kristopher, but that's just a cognate all right ;))) ) Aren't they the best in
the world?! ;)))) </shameless plug>

Christophe.

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