[lojban] Re: multi-part names

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 20:04, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> I've thought that there ought to be a culture where men pass one family name
> to their sons and women another family name to their children, but I've never
> heard of one.

Well, I've heard from a couple Americans couples where neither partner
changed their name upon marriage who followed this practice (or the
reverse) with their children's last names. The other main alternative
for the children is hyphenation of the parents' last names.

Chris Capel
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