Looking at this poll I feel like I'm betraying the cause by considering Ms Soap. Living in the Soap household and having the Soaps give a dinner-party seems pleasantly economical... but really I wouldn't be considering Ms Soap if I didn't dislike Bloggs.
I became Ms. Soap because my Bloggs is a name that should be a first or middle name. I was tired of being accidentally called Bloggs Jane instead of Jane Bloggs. ;)
In retrospect, I wish I had pushed harder for a new name altogether - Quackensneed or something. I like everyont in the family having the same name, I just wish it wasn't the same one as Sam's dad. :P
*looks ruefully at poll* I hope the feminist police don't come after me for leaving out that option, but truly I've never heard of it.
Was there anything unusual about the circumstances of their marriage (he's from a space station! she's from a commune! together they fight crime matrilineally!)? Or did he just seriously dislike Soap?
He moved to her country. The name fit better - at least on paper, it makes legal things (and most things really) go more smoothly. Discrimination sucks?
Interesting! I'm curious for more details if you're not worried about privacy.
Mention of cross-border marriages makes me think: I wouldn't take a surname I couldn't pronounce. Which includes any name ending in -Vt, where V is any vowel. Damn Hiberno-English and its split fricatives.
Depending on where you are in Germany - I think it's different in the south - "Frau" has been the normal way of calling a female too old to be called by her first name for the past 20 years. Professors who know their students names call them Frau Soundso even at 19, and officially, so do teachers in school starting from age 16.
If someone were to call me Fräulein, I would assume that a) they're coming onto me, b) they're my mother and she's very angry at me, c) are old men trying to be gallant, or, come to think of it, d) a superior at work trying to be playful (and missing).
>_>
As for names, given that Drae has four last names (French nobility, oh my), I'm fairly certain I'll just keep mine and she hers. :D
Fräulein is mostly used in a derogative way these days.I would feel offended, actually, if somebody called me Fräulein... Frau X it is, no matter the age!
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I've never heard Miss used in the US for a married woman.
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In retrospect, I wish I had pushed harder for a new name altogether - Quackensneed or something. I like everyont in the family having the same name, I just wish it wasn't the same one as Sam's dad. :P
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Have you come across the Miss Soap phenomenon?
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Was there anything unusual about the circumstances of their marriage (he's from a space station! she's from a commune! together they fight crime matrilineally!)? Or did he just seriously dislike Soap?
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Mention of cross-border marriages makes me think: I wouldn't take a surname I couldn't pronounce. Which includes any name ending in -Vt, where V is any vowel. Damn Hiberno-English and its split fricatives.
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If someone were to call me Fräulein, I would assume that a) they're coming onto me, b) they're my mother and she's very angry at me, c) are old men trying to be gallant, or, come to think of it, d) a superior at work trying to be playful (and missing).
>_>
As for names, given that Drae has four last names (French nobility, oh my), I'm fairly certain I'll just keep mine and she hers. :D
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