Re: Spousal names (Was: Re: "Mister" (was: Re: New Lang: Igassik))

Personally, I would like to see them become John Smith-Jones and Jane
Jones-Smith with the daughters inheriting the Mother's family name and the
son's the father's.

Adam


>From: Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Spousal names (Was: Re: "Mister" (was: Re: New Lang: Igassik))
>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:15:23 -0400
>
>On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > > In that case I couldn't see why couples don't
> > > *exchange* names and be *twice* as romantic.
> >
> > Hmm, so John Smith and Jane Jones get married and become John Jones and
> > Jane Smith?  That would be cool.  :-)
>
>The only disadvantage I can think of is that it would make figuring out
>kinship-ties an absolute nightmare, at least for someone like me who
>thinks genealogy is enough headache already!
>
>YHL
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