Why can't it be something fun like swapping surnames and then creating a portmaneau or blended name for the kids.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    5 months ago

    Why's it gotta start with you, rather than retroactively accounting for as far back in your ancestry as you can go?

    And how do you do the ordering of all those names?

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      It starts with me because I'm a special boy.

      The ordering is alphabetical of course.

      • TheDoctor [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        You don’t have to go back too far before you’re gonna be mixing alphabets and using altered versions of last names.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Hey wait a minute, doesn't your idea also have this issue? Say currently my name is Al Funky Stuff and I have a child with Lea Johnson Smith, the kid's surnames would be Funky (my patrilineal name) and Smith (my wife's matrilineal name). But my wife's matrilineal name is not actually matrilineal, it's her mom's patrilineal name. So we'd have to go and switch it out for her mom's second surname, which itself is her grandma's patrilineal surname, and so on. So you'd end up having to trace your genealogy regardless of how many surnames a child inherits. Unless I misunderstood your system?