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In Western societies, how can a man have a hyphenated name? (and why!)

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timns:
Passing on surnames is crazy because unless you're the first generation it gets completely out of hand. If my great-grandparents did it for example I'd now have a stupid eight surnames.

After about 27ish generation peoples name would need a gigabyte of memory each  :D
-Eóin (March 02, 2011, 12:59 PM)
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Ah but then you can compress!

Yours truly,
rTTr^9*MkI~*AIm?$_yOV!3g#U.uOd\LEq}LLbku`^kB8'4D9kx~#r*ZiZXzNc29kqjR'^H9:iny:<b5*i (Mrs)

cranioscopical:
rTTr^9*MkI~*AIm?$_yOV!3g#U.uOd\LEq}LLbku`^kB8'4D9kx~#r*ZiZXzNc29kqjR'^H9:iny:<b5*i
-timns (March 02, 2011, 01:09 PM)
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You might have made a hash of that  :o

mwb1100:
And how could you do this until you go through the legal process of changing your name?
-zridling (March 01, 2011, 11:04 PM)
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In the United States anyway, the common law situation is that you can use whatever name you want for business purposes as long as it's not for fraudulent purposes.  Wikipedia has a lot of detail on this, and I believe that it's largely accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_change

In many (most?) jurisdictions, the same applies to your legal name - there's not necessarily a need for some court order to change your name, you just start using it (again - as long as you're not trying to engage in fraud by doing so).  However, I'm sure that there would be an awful lot of hassles in dealing with banks, government agencies, and employers if you actually try to put any of this into practice today - as far as getting legal documents, accounts, etc.

But as far as what goes on a player's jersey - there's nothing in the law about that - whatever's OK with the team and the league can go on the jersey.

And don't forget that names don't have to follow standard pronunciation rules either, as from this Monty Python sketch:

Interviewer: Good evening. I have with me in the studio tonight one of Britain's leading skin specialists - Raymond Luxury Yacht.

Raymond: That's not my name.

Interviewer: I'm sorry - Raymond Luxury Yach-t.

Raymond: No, no, no - it's spelt Raymond Luxury Yach-t, but it's pronounced 'Throat-warbler Mangrove'.

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Eóin:
I say we all just adopt UUIDs, then there would never be a name clash.

nudone:
classic python piece.  :Thmbsup:

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