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

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    Women keeping their last names as in such notoriously feminist paradises as all of Latin America

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

      It's still from the woman's patriline though.

      If we had one name transmitted patrilineally and one name transmitted matrilineally, that'd be really cool, and would also not cascade beyond 2 surnames.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        No, children should get all their parents' surnames ad infinitum. My grandkids will have 8 surnames. Their grandkids will have 32.

        Say what you want, but this system has the fewest edge cases.

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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          6 months ago

          Jugemu Jugemu Gokou no Surikire Kaijari Suigyou no Suigyou Matsu Unrai Matsu Fuurai Matsu Kuuneru Tokoro ni Sumu Tokoro Yabura Kouji no Bura Kouji Paipo Paipo Paipo no Shuuringan Shuuringan no Guurindai Guurindai no Ponpokopii no Ponpokonaa no Choukyuumei no Chousuke but every part except "Chousuke" was actually the surname

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          6 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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            6 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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              6 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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            6 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?

        • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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          6 months ago

          No, children should get all their parents' surnames ad infinitum. My grandkids will have 8 surnames. Their grandkids will have 32.

          Say what you want, but this system has the fewest edge cases.

          Having names like the ones breeders give to purebred dogs would be hilarious.