copyrighted surnames

[Ashmoria]

so nsg. i live in nova scotia. everyone here is either irish scottish or both. my surname is murphy. there's like 7 kids in my class with that surname and i'm not related to any of them and they're not related to each other either. there's also like 3 kids with kelly as their surname and 2 with o'sullivan as their surname. none of them are related to each other. that really pisses us off. like we're not even related. that's why i think surnames should be copyrighted. everyone should have an unique surname.

so what do you think about this nsg? do you often come across people who have the same last name as you? if so, does that piss you off? do you think surnames should be copyrighted so everyone would have an unique surname? i do.

well what unique surname would YOU choose?

[Fremskrittspartiet]

Sørbye™

[Arcanda]

so nsg. i live in nova scotia. everyone here is either irish scottish or both. my surname is murphy. there's like 7 kids in my class with that surname and i'm not related to any of them and they're not related to each other either. there's also like 3 kids with kelly as their surname and 2 with o'sullivan as their surname. none of them are related to each other. that really pisses us off. like we're not even related. that's why i think surnames should be copyrighted. everyone should have an unique surname.

so what do you think about this nsg? do you often come across people who have the same last name as you? if so, does that piss you off? do you think surnames should be copyrighted so everyone would have an unique surname? i do.

I've never actually came across someone who has the same surname as I do.There's only a pharmacy in Brasil that uses it...If I'm quick enough to copyright it before they do, I'll become rich

[The Lithuanian-Surinamese Caliphate]

Copyrighted surnames could become quite complicated, and people would be scrambling for them like short usernames that are nice and short words on popular websites. There would likely be many 'misspellings' of common last names if the family couldn't get the 'properly' spelled last name, and many more slight variations than there are now, which would get quite confusing. There would also probably be many surnames which most people would have no idea how to pronounce...this copyrighted surnames idea would fail on so many levels. I'd rather use a naming system like a combination of ours and either the Icelandic system or the Spanish one. Or we could just start chipping and barcoding everybody, like back in the good ol' days.

[Dread Lady Nathicana]

I think people's surnames should be taken from their place of employment. Society will be better categorized that way.

I see what you did there. Idly wondering how many here have read Jennifer Government.

[Kenora County]

You could adopt Iberian customs and use two or seldom three surnames in various combinations with one, two or seldom three given names. *nods*

so my neighbors name would be john murphy murphy insteasd of just john murphy

[Kenora County]

so nsg. i live in nova scotia. everyone here is either irish scottish or both. my surname is murphy. there's like 7 kids in my class with that surname and i'm not related to any of them and they're not related to each other either. there's also like 3 kids with kelly as their surname and 2 with o'sullivan as their surname. none of them are related to each other. that really pisses us off. like we're not even related. that's why i think surnames should be copyrighted. everyone should have an unique surname.

so what do you think about this nsg? do you often come across people who have the same last name as you? if so, does that piss you off? do you think surnames should be copyrighted so everyone would have an unique surname? i do.

well what unique surname would YOU choose?

something like grossmeistersfeister420.

[Edgy Opinions]

You could adopt Iberian customs and use two or seldom three surnames in various combinations with one, two or seldom three given names. *nods*

so my neighbors name would be john murphy murphy insteasd of just john murphy

John Murphy and Murphy. Murphy e Murphy if born in a Portuguese-speaking country, Murphy y Murphy if a Spanish-speaking one. *nods*

[Fremskrittspartiet]

Copyrighted surnames could become quite complicated, and people would be scrambling for them like short usernames that are nice and short words on popular websites. There would likely be many 'misspellings' of common last names if the family couldn't get the 'properly' spelled last name, and many more slight variations than there are now, which would get quite confusing. There would also probably be many surnames which most people would have no idea how to pronounce...this copyrighted surnames idea would fail on so many levels. I'd rather use a naming system like a combination of ours and either the Icelandic system or the Spanish one. Or we could just start chipping and barcoding everybody, like back in the good ol' days.

Sknørbyæ564©

[Edgy Opinions]

Sknørbyæ564©

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Adequate?

[Nazi Flower Power]

Lots of people have the same surname as me. It's not a problem.

When I was in elementary school, there was another girl with the same surname, and we both had light skin and dark brown hair, so everyone thought we were sisters (fraternal twins). We weren't related, but we were friends for a while. When we got older she got busy chasing after guys and ran away from home at one point, and things kind of fell apart.

[Kenora County]

Lots of people have the same surname as me. It's not a problem.

When I was in elementary school, there was another girl with the same surname, and we both had light skin and dark brown hair, so everyone thought we were sisters (fraternal twins). We weren't related, but we were friends for a while. When we got older she got busy chasing after guys and ran away from home at one point, and things kind of fell apart.

ii hope that doesn't happy to other murphies at my class.

[Nazi Flower Power]

Lots of people have the same surname as me. It's not a problem.

When I was in elementary school, there was another girl with the same surname, and we both had light skin and dark brown hair, so everyone thought we were sisters (fraternal twins). We weren't related, but we were friends for a while. When we got older she got busy chasing after guys and ran away from home at one point, and things kind of fell apart.

ii hope that doesn't happy to other murphies at my class.

Yeah, it wasn't good. I heard she got over it and got her shit together later on, but I haven't talked to her in a long time.

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

As annoying as it is, you just gotta live with it. Besides, all of those people are related - Very distantly, but their ancestors all came from the same Clan.

[Kenora County]

As annoying as it is, you just gotta live with it. Besides, all of those people are related - Very distantly, but their ancestors all came from the same Clan.

my clan must have bred like rabbvits

[Edgy Opinions]

As annoying as it is, you just gotta live with it. Besides, all of those people are related - Very distantly, but their ancestors all came from the same Clan.

Nope. Many were spread through conversion or slavery, in fact.

[The Lithuanian-Surinamese Caliphate]

Doctor - So what will the child be named

Mother - Jonson, carl Jonson

Doctor - I am sorry, that is copyrighted an you cant pay the royalties, but you can call him Carl gjnmhubgfvt.. Is that OK?

I am sorry, i was not able to resist

"gjnmhubgfvt" is unpronounceable except in Abkhaz and Georgian however, one can pronounce any combination of alternating consonants and vowels. The string "CVCVCVC" provides 20M random names eg Bacedif, Zuxovit. That way only 350 people will have each surname.

Of course, when clan Bacedif migrates to Nova Scotia, you are back where you started.

A more complicated method than this could be possible, and produce many more completely pronounceable surnames, using common English consonant clusters and diphthongs, ending and/or starting with a vowel (or multiple vowels), etc.

[Kenora County]

As annoying as it is, you just gotta live with it. Besides, all of those people are related - Very distantly, but their ancestors all came from the same Clan.

Nope. Many were spread through conversion or slavery, in fact.

it's a catholic town so many people haven't converted. and there aren't any black folks here so no slavery.

[Kalifati Arab shqiptar]

I'm the only person in the World with my name.

[Kenora County]

I'm the only person in the World with my name.

i envy you

[Kenora County]

on a second thought, i think it'd be better if we only had one name, like greek philosophers did provided these names are unique obviously

[The Lithuanian-Surinamese Caliphate]

Copyrighted surnames could become quite complicated, and people would be scrambling for them like short usernames that are nice and short words on popular websites. There would likely be many 'misspellings' of common last names if the family couldn't get the 'properly' spelled last name, and many more slight variations than there are now, which would get quite confusing. There would also probably be many surnames which most people would have no idea how to pronounce...this copyrighted surnames idea would fail on so many levels. I'd rather use a naming system like a combination of ours and either the Icelandic system or the Spanish one. Or we could just start chipping and barcoding everybody, like back in the good ol' days.

Sknørbyæ564©

Dammit...I guess I'll just have to take Sknørbyæ565© now.

I'm the only person in the World with my name.

As am I (legally), or at least there aren't any others I've been able to find.

on a second thought, i think it'd be better if we only had one name, like greek philosophers did provided these names are unique obviously

This is an even worse idea for so many reasons.

[Ikania]

Time to pit all the Smiths an arena. The survivor gets the name.

[-Ebola-]

As annoying as it is, you just gotta live with it. Besides, all of those people are related - Very distantly, but their ancestors all came from the same Clan.

Nope. Many were spread through conversion or slavery, in fact.

We're all related anyway.

[Charlotte Ryberg]

Surnames are not copyrightable alone, although as a business name the trademark laws apply, not the copyright laws. In the UK we have lots of people with the McDonald or MacDonald surname, and the fast food chain hasn't say anything against it as far as I know.