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From: leiby@yeti.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women,net.kids
Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 21:42:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 21:42:33 1984
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watmath!saquigley sez:

> The last solution I have thought of, and the one I hope to implement one day,
> is unfortunately the most complicated legally: make up a new last name for
> the children.

I predict y'all are going to have a very difficult time of it.
For example, my last name is Leibensperger.  After years (and years,
and years...) of having it misspelled one way or another, I've developed
a very fierce loyalty to it as a result of having to defend it against the
spelling errors of non-Teutonic types all the time.  Not only that, but we
Leibenspergers go back a long way history-wise, Hans Georg Leibensperger
having departed Baden-Wu:rtemberg to arrive in Philadelphia in 1774.

I think it's impractical to try to define a definitive non-sexist naming
convention, since no matter what you do, somebody will be dissatisfied.
Best to work it out one-on-one with the spouse.

My preferrence would be either combining names (should I marry someone
with a short enuf name! :-)) or else mapping boys => dad's name and
girls => mom's name (or some permutation thereof).  Actually, the only
fair thing to do would be to play a poker game to decide!!!

Serious question:  Some folks out there on the net must have hyphenated
names.  If you're contemplating children or if you have them already,
what will/do you call them?  How did you go about resolving things if
you had to drop a name somewhere?

-- 
Mike Leibensperger @ Masscomp, Westford MA 01886
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