Re: CHAT: "Mister" (WAS: Re: New Lang: Igassik)

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Oct 25, 2000 at 01:42:16PM -0400@
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:42:16PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> [snip]
> > If I ever get married, I'm keeping my family name, darnit.  Women do in
> > Korea (even though Korea isn't exactly the most woman-friendly of
> > cultures), and I have no desire to have some strange last name tacked
> > onto my identity.
> [snip]
>
> Don't marry someone with a "strange last name", then. ;-)
<shaking head and grinning>  My boyfriend of 3 years has the last name
"Betzwieser."  "Strange last name" is in relation to my own name, and
German and Korean just don't seem to mix!  If my name were, oh, Frieda or
Carla or Elise, I'm sure I'd feel differently.  <G>

YHL