Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
by jhrmnn on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:10PM
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And so we could follow the sex chromosome and mitochondrial DNA convention—you’d inherit the grandma’s surname from your mother and the grandpa’s surname from your father.
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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
by adrian_b on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:19PM
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This is indeed a possible variant of the system.
This variant could lead to a split of the set of existing family names into two disjoint subsets, one that is passed through females and one that is passed through males.
I do not think that this split could create problems, unless at the date when the system would be introduced there would happen to be a serious imbalance between the number of family names carried by females and the number of family names carried by males, which might be then preserved by the system.