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

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Adam Walker wrote:

> 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.
I was talking about something similar to this with a friend once, and as
a psych major he noted that this could possibly become divisive, with
husbands wanting sons and wives wanting daughters...but then again,
families find enough things to get divisive about on their own.  <shrug>

YHL

> >From: Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
> >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!