Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 18:10:10 10/19/99
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On October 19, 1999 at 16:38:58, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On October 19, 1999 at 16:19:54, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On October 19, 1999 at 14:59:15, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >> >>>On October 19, 1999 at 14:32:01, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >>> >>>>On October 19, 1999 at 14:02:51, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >>>> >>>>>I tink that this is a key point in the argument. Junior, an Israeli program >>>>>commercialized by a German enterprise, is not only sold in the US, and "Junior" >>>>>as a qualifier means nothing in Spanish, French, Italian... Like you, I have the >>>>>same name of my father, but I never carried the Jr. after. Neither does my >>>>>eldest son. It wouldn't make any sense in Spanish. >>>> >>>>So how do you differentiate between you and your father? Without some sort of >>>>modifier on the name, do they not get confused often? >>>> >>>>Jeremiah >>> >>> In Spanish speaking countries, we have two family names. The first one is taken >>>from the father and the second from the mother. >>> I will not name any son of mine after me (José de Jesús), but if I do it will >>>be very unlikely that our full names match (unless I happen to marry a lady >>>whose first family name is 'Ruvalcaba', which is not a common name here). I.e. >>>his name would be José de Jesús García -here you put his mother's first family >>>name-. >>> Another difference with English speaking countries is that here women never >>>change their name for getting married. Usually people, men and women, keep the >>>same name for their whole life. >>>José. >> >>That is starting to happen in North America too. >> >>Dave > > ¿What? ¿People having two family names? >José (: > >P.S. it is not new in North America, last time I checked México was in North >America, and these name practices were in effect here long before I was born. No, I mean that formerly women would change their last name to their husband's, and many women do not anymore. Re: Mexico, sure, it's part of North America if you are speaking continent-wise (North vs South). Sometimes I think of it as part of "Central America", which perhaps isn't all that accurate, though. Dave
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