Well... I guess it's to bed with me.
Sanity? Why would I need a useless thing like that? Now posting as Motor-Runner.Also clarification. There are lots of people and only so many forenames and surnames to go around. Not everyone is all that imaginative.
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...Speaking of which, my sister sometimes prefers for people to refer to her by her middle name instead of her first name.
Is that why all the men on my dad's side of the family (me included) have had the same last name for 4+ generations?
edited 28th Sep '11 10:21:04 PM by megamagikarp
Depends on your culture - the Maltese had seven names and it was traditional to have Carmen/Carmello for Our Lady of Mount Carmel (the patron lady of Malta). The names within a family tended to stay the same but the order just got switched around.
edited 28th Sep '11 10:23:13 PM by StolenByFaeries
"You've got your transmission and your live wire, but your circuit's dead." - Media![]()
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I've actually considered changing my last name to my grandmothers maiden name before...
Romans traditionally had three to four names, the first three which everyone got basically functioned like first, last, and middle names do today, though during the period of the early empire, it changed which functioned as the first, and the fourth was given if you achieved something great, eg: Some dude named Scipio did some stuff, which ended with him totally conquering Carthage, and he was given the name Africanus to commemorate it. It was pretty chill, man.
edited 28th Sep '11 10:22:12 PM by deathpigeon
I've actually considered changing my name to my great-grandmothers last name but then we'd be identical so... no. :/
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