Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site deepthot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!deepthot!julian From: julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies) Newsgroups: net.women,net.kids Subject: Re: What's in a name? Message-ID: <149@deepthot.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 14:43:41 EST Article-I.D.: deepthot.149 Posted: Thu Feb 9 14:43:41 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 09:00:05 EST References: <614@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: UWO CS, London Canada Lines: 14 A system which I fancied is to (initially) hyphenate the parent's last names on marriage, and the children take that long last name too. When two people from the next generation marry, they combine half-each of their last names: the wife the bit she got from her mother, and the husband the bit he got from his father... so both the maternal and paternal family lines descend indefinitely. The problem, apart from complexity, is: what order to have them. I fear an automatic tendency to put male half first without considering the alternative. The system, at any rate, can be extended in the obvious way to 'liaisons' between MOTSS if the issue arises. On marriage, it is obviously necessary to scrap some of the last-names, or they grow exponentially. There is room for discretion which bits to keep. I can imagine a person who really wanted to keep her or his opposite-sex parent's bit. So OK, why not.