Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site yeti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!yeti!leiby From: leiby@yeti.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women,net.kids Subject: Re: What's in a name? Message-ID: <142@yeti.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 21:42:33 EST Article-I.D.: yeti.142 Posted: Wed Feb 8 21:42:33 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 07:07:15 EST References: <6816@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Masscomp, Littleton, MA Lines: 33 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 {tektronix,harpo,decvax}!masscomp!leiby