Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <428DB4ED.4030703 at pacific.net.sg>, Erich Dollansky writes:

>> 
>> In Iceland it is very uncommon to have family names as such. You usually 
>> take your father's name and add "sonur" if you're a boy, or "dóttir" if 
>> you're a girl. Your name does not change in marriage, and your whole 
>
>This is also true for some parts of India. The 'family' name of the 
>children is the father's first name.

It used to be that way in Denmark, with the added twist that the
firstborn son was named after his paternal grandfather.

Any high-school student can see that this in the majority of cases
leads to one of two patterns:

	Peter Larsen		Peter Petersen
	Lars Petersen		Peter Petersen
	Peter Larsen		Peter Petersen
	Lars Petersen		Peter Petersen
	...			...

In 1828 the king decreed that this had to stop and families should
carry "a proper and unchanging familyname", but since one could
only change familyname with royal approval that basically cemented
the fact that the majority of Denmark is called ".*sen"

Anyway, this has what to do with FreeBSD ?


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