On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
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.