Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site stcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!hao!stcvax!lat From: lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: kids and parents with different last names Message-ID: <305@stcvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 12:27:52 EDT Article-I.D.: stcvax.305 Posted: Thu Sep 27 12:27:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 09:58:16 EDT References: <1100@ihuxi.UUCP> Organization: Storage Technology Corp. Louisville, CO Lines: 20 Everyone is free to choose last names as they wish, of course, but this practice is of hyphenating the spouses' last names will work for only one generation. What's going to happen when Lucy Anderson-Schmidt and Robert Guinn-Lopez decide to get married? Even if she marries James Knox they'll have an awfully long name... And then there's the problem of parsing: Ed, I'd like you to meet my friend Lucy Anderson-Schmidt-Knox. Ed (to Lucy): Is that Anderson-(Schmidt-Knox) or (Anderson-Schmidt)-Knox? *-) [A smiling cyclops...] -- "I am not Herbert." -- Spock {ihnp4 hao philabs sdcrdcf ucbvax!nbires}!stcvax!lat Larry Tepper Storage Technology, MD-3T, Louisville, CO 80028 303-673-5435