Re:A letter to our daughter
by tomschlick on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @05:20PM
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In the US you can change your name to anything. The guy can change just as the girl can but it is very uncommon for the guy to change his last name.
Honestly, why are you disappointed?
"Chan is a diminutive suffix; it expresses that the speaker finds a person endearing. Thus, using chan with a superior's name would be condescending and rude. In general, chan is used for babies, young children, and teenage girls. It may also be used towards cute animals, lovers, and close friends. "
It's otaku humor.
In Japanese ... his wife is ethnically Chinese.
Doesn't matter in the context of the joke. Has nothing to do with his wife, only 'chan'.
Everybody's disappointed with Mark one way or another, it seems.
Re:A letter to our daughter
by stevesearer on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @05:27PM
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Yeah. I have an extended family member who took both names and a friend who opted to just take on his wife's maiden name and dropped his. Another set of friends came up with a last name that was new to them both.
The hyphenating of both names is an interesting concept, but would in all practicality be a difficult thing to pass on after a few generations if it were the standard. Though maybe I'm not thinking thorough it properly.
It's possible to do anything with your band. I'm disappointed he didn't choose Suckitwinkelvoss.
Neither of them changed their names.
Is it possible in the US to take both names after marriage?
Where isn't it possible?
In Switzerland for example. Either both use the same name or they keep the one they already had.
According to https://www.ch.ch/en/married-name/
> Surnames combined with a hyphen, such as Meier-Müller, are still allowed. Combined surnames are not official registered names, but may be used in everyday situations and recorded in your passport and identity card.
So, it's not "official" but you can use it everywhere including on your official documents.
If so, I'm disappointed that Mark didn't choose to be Zuckerberg-Chan.