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From: julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies)
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Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 14:43:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 14:43:41 1984
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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.