Hyphenation is not sustainable. Not practically. If you have the first generation of all hyphenates, do you have a second gen with multiple hyphenates? It would take longer to write your name after two generations than to do anything else. If the hyphenated parents give only one part of their name from the kid, I don't see how that's any better/worse than just changing names entirely.
Whatever the process, it should not be codified, but that's hardly an issue because, clearly, there will be too much resistance to any effort to ever really get off the ground. What needs to change, however, is the assumption that it should be one or the other.
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Date: 2009-03-26 07:17 pm (UTC)Whatever the process, it should not be codified, but that's hardly an issue because, clearly, there will be too much resistance to any effort to ever really get off the ground. What needs to change, however, is the assumption that it should be one or the other.