On 16-Nov-05 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
- Robert Cunningham <rcunning@kettering.edu> [11-16-05 16:46]:
I Personally like SuSE myself of course I have been signing my name that way since I started using computers that had Upper/lower case. :)
But you are missing the point,ie: when a lady gets married, she _usually_ takes the family name of her husband. From then on you address her as <first-name><last-name-of-husband>, not <first-name><previous-last-name>.
Now there's an idea! Ladies with a public profile (under their original names) sometimes keep that, or sometimes append it to their husband's surname[1], or vice versa. I'm not sure of the gender identities of Novell and SuSE, though there have been hints that "SuSE" suggests female. Anyway, this idea suggests that on marriage Novell + SuSE -> Novell-SuSE (though some might prefer SuSE-Novell). [1] E.g. Maria Sklodowska -> Marie Sklodowska on moving to Paris -> Marie Curie on marrying Pierre Curie -- "Sklodowska" had no "public profile"; daughter Irène Curie -> Irène Joliot-Curie when she married Frédéric Joliot -- who also adopted the name Joliot-Curie (who would not take the occasion to gain the name of Curie?) Best wishes to all, Ted. PS "und" in German is never "Und" unless at the beginning of a a sentence. Though it might be "UND" if the whole sentence is in capitals. UND SO WEITER. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 17-Nov-05 Time: 12:55:59 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------