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From: lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: kids and parents with different last names
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 12:27:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 12:27:52 1984
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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?

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