I was just reading some of the naming stuff on google+ and I just realized that even if I used my "real" name (not Sophia), it is not actually my legal name. I use Brooks as my middle name, and have for 18 years, but it is not on my birth certificate, SS Card, Driver's License, etc. My middle name is really Marie. My mother completely approves of the change and wishes she thought of it-- Brooks is a family name that is often used as a middle name for male family members. It makes me wonder if I should change it legally (not for google+ purposes, but just for ease)
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Sophia Brooks - Aug 03, 2011 4:06:39 pm PDT #19181 of 30001
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§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 4:09:35 pm PDT #19182 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm changing my last name to Moon.
Okay, I'm not, but I'd tell Google + that.
Amy - Aug 03, 2011 4:14:27 pm PDT #19183 of 30001
Because books.
I'm changing my name to Princess Consuela Banana Hammock.
Jesse - Aug 03, 2011 4:15:22 pm PDT #19184 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The Google+ naming things seem like a lot of BS. What's the thing about two names in one language? Does that mean like you can't use kanji for your first name and the English alphabet for your last? Because it reads like someone named Jacques von Trapp could get in trouble?
le nubian - Aug 03, 2011 4:20:43 pm PDT #19185 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I haven't been paying attention to the naming stuff, maybe I need to start. I wonder what bug got up Google's butt re: this?
Sophia Brooks - Aug 03, 2011 4:21:18 pm PDT #19186 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh- it is definitely BS. I just realized that it would have never occurred to me that N****** Brooks T***** was not "the name most people know me as". I mean, I would be unlikely to be targeted with that name, but still- not my legal name.
Jesse - Aug 03, 2011 4:23:50 pm PDT #19187 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
"the name most people know me as".
That just so explictly doesn't mean your legal name! I don't know why this makes me so crazy. Possibly because I am SUPER EFFING CRANKY and looking for a safe target.
meara - Aug 03, 2011 4:25:22 pm PDT #19188 of 30001
I figure a heck of a lot of people know me as meara. Others know me as Indy. And some know me as my legal name (quite a few of you probably mostly only know it due to FB!) And I answer to meara or Indy in person, as well as my "real" name, so....
Amy - Aug 03, 2011 4:32:25 pm PDT #19189 of 30001
Because books.
That just so explictly doesn't mean your legal name!
Right? My grandfather's name was Howard, and I didn't know it until I was in high school because everyone (my grandmother, everyone!) called him Pete. A nurse nicknamed Repeat when he was a kid in the hospital, and it stuck. He was Pete Lastname to the world. I thought his name was actually Peter.
SailAweigh - Aug 03, 2011 4:35:20 pm PDT #19190 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Yeah. My dad's first name is Dornis. Nobody calls him Dornis; his name is Bud to everyone who knows him. Would they make him use Dornis? It would be stupid.