Comments on: Hyphenated Identities

By: Reb Leibish

Reb Leibish — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:58:08 +0000

Sarah posted that the practice of addressing a misbehaving child by the over-emphasized addressing by its full given name followed by a silent stare is disturbing.

Especially so for the children of these couples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ErAz7r7Bhs

By: Jeff Eyges

Jeff Eyges — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:26:11 +0000

Jeff, my father’s name is Andrew

Sorry – I skimmed through it quickly.

By: suitepotato

suitepotato — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:13:22 +0000

Watch Jay Leno’s funny ads segments and you’ll see people getting married with colliding names. Burger and Fries for one notable instance. Hyphenating them for life would be worse.

For instance Courtney Cox marrying Bob Uecker. Man what a nightmare name that would be.

By: dcc

dcc — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:12:43 +0000

Thanks DK for the mazel and post.

Jeff, my father’s name is Andrew…while in concept your suggestion is good, I believe it is illegal in most states…

By: Jeff Eyges

Jeff Eyges — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:00:25 +0000

Okay. here’s what we’ll do – we’ll adopt the naming scheme they use in Iceland. A child takes the dad’s name and adds “son” or “dottir” to it – so you have “Olafson” or “Sigurdsdottir”. Children have last names that are different from those of their parents, but there’s a lot of repetition, as they have a limited number of given names. In any case, it doesn’t seem to be a problem for them.

However, as we are social liberals, we do want to be egalitarian, and we want to include the mother’s name – so the kids will be “AbbyandAndrewson” and “AbbyandAndrewsdaughter”.

Or they could just do what the Israelis have done and pick a new family name, and there’s an end to it.

Problem solved. Next.

(This is what keeps you up at night?)