Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)

 --- Christophe Grandsire skrzypszy:

> The law which equalised this use came into being because of one couple! That
> couple desperately wanted the woman's family name not to disappear. She was
> the only heir of the family and the last one to wear her family name. The
> law was adopted extremely fast because the name was a national pride. It
> happens when you are called Irène Curie!!! ;))) Result: her husband,
> Frédéric Joliot and she *both* took the name Joliot-Curie.
National pride? Always thought that Marie Curie was Polish :)))
Wouldn't it have been easier for Irene and Freddy if she would have kept her
own name and he would have kept his, and the children would be named after
their mother? I mean, changing the law is quite a thing to do.

BTW The same system exists here in NL: everybody can either keep his/her own
name or adopt his/her partner's name. I think that is a good thing. Although in
practice I don't think many men take their wife's family name. Actually, I know
only one such case, in which the husband had a really horrible last name and
replaced it with his wife's (IMO equally horrible) name.

Jan

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