[lojban] Re: Logical Naming Conventions

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 29 April 2009 09:10:35 Luke Bergen wrote:
> So, Pierre, in that system what would happen in the following generation?
> Let's say:
>
> A + B marry and have children who take both A and B.  Now we have AB.  So
> now AB wants to marry the child of X + Y.  So now we have
>
> AB + XY marry and have children who take both AB and XY and now we haev
> ABXY.  For generation n a person would have 2^n names.

If A is AB's patrilineal name and AB is a man, and X is XY's patrilineal name, 
their children will be named AY.

Pierre


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