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Re: CHAT: new names (was: Re: Bopomofo and pinyin)

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, January 24, 2000, 17:27
At 13:48 +0100 24.1.2000, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> "revival": to take the name of a ancestor of yours which has >completely disappeared, in order to "revive" it. The problem is that you >have to make a file with evidence that it's worth reviving this name...
Would it be possible to look up some funky name in the early Middle Ages and then make up a good case that you were descended from that person? ;-)
> >On the other hand, two married people have a "right of use" of the other >partner's name. That means that the woman can use her own name, her husband >name or even make a compound name out of them. But the man can do the same >with his wife's name (it's not of common use, but law allows it).
In pre-revolutionary France it was quite common to use <father's surname> + de + <mother's maiden surname>. Has that died out completely? Would it at all be permitted now? I wonder BTW how they are going to maintain these differences within the EU? If you (or I) were to take a job in London, move there, go to a public barrister and change your name, what could the French authorities do, since you did everything according to the law in the EU country where you did it? /BP B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ Anant' avanaute quettalmar! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ___ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarocco\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine__ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ I neer Pityancalimeo\ \_____/ /ar/ /_atar Mercasso naan ~~~~~~~~~Cuinondil~~~\_______/~~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda cuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)