Comments on: India Inc

by: m

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:30:06 +0000

yes must take up my next career as member of Brookfield herd in Los Archeros…

by: helena

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:25:04 +0000

er..dunno…time is relative?
I like it, although I see you more as an Ermtrude Buttercup…

by: m

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:45:10 +0000

H let me know why your reply says 7.42am!!!! just off to scotmid. Pray that there are chelsea buns left I have a craving…

what do you think of MJ Shilensky/Gordon then?

BTW in scotland you can just say ‘henceforth I’m Ermtrude Buttercup’ and its perfectly legal in Engladn you have to do all the dammened paper work

by: helena

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:42:14 +0000

M. It might actually be easier to do if the names haven’t much overlap, then they’d not sound so stuck together for the sake of it. If I had Kaye Kantrowitz I’d be inclined not to use the / because the two sound well together, whereas my anglicised and original surnames used like that sounds a bit stupid.
The whole subject is (I think) fraught with difficulties for everyone who has to deal with it. Whichever one you use it feels as if you’re slicing off a part of yourself. The daft thing is that our parents or grandparents did it in order to make their lives (and ours) easier. Maybe we do attach too much importance to names - an importance that they never felt, but whether they felt it or not - we do.

I have to admit as well that having a passport in the other name is incredibly freeing. Like you can leave your everyday persona behind as soon as you take a plane and I do love that aspect of it.

by: m

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:25:51 +0000

Irene Kaye/Kantrowitz is a US poet in Yiddish whose father anglcised her family name. When she decided to change back to the orginal name she didn’t want to negate her father so she kept the two and used the / to indicate is was a sort of binary one half of another rather than adding another name to herself. Not easy and causes endless complications. Its the way I’m toying doing it though slightly complicated that neither of the two names have much over lap at all.

by: Herebe

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:53:10 +0000

I meant that all they have to do is to agree to live in the same town as each other…

You and F live in the same town as each other…

QED…

I’m going to be an UNCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does mum know? You know, the one who falsifies legal documents for a living…

by: Herebe

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:46:49 +0000

I’ve got her signature right here on my birth certificate, so she must have a. either used that surname at the time or b. been fine about falsifying legal papers.

Like any of our family has ever had a problem with the latter…

by: Chaucer's Bitch

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:16:43 +0000

That’s why I always put on my bike helmet before logging in.

by: helena

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:52:27 +0000

Sorry CB, my bad grammer. Children are portable. I meant that all they have to do is to agree to live in the same town as each other.

BTW… please keep your nose well stuck in, I’m starting to get nervous about logging into my own comments in case I’m hit by low flying arguments.

by: Chaucer's Bitch

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:33:39 +0000

(sorry; this isn’t my discussion. i’ll un-stick my nose now.)