Day 3

[tawek.livejournal.com]

Please post today's updates and any excerpts / thoughts / etc in comments.

Here's today's daily prompt for your updates and any excerpts, thoughts etc.

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Spanish names are fabulous, aren't they? The first names are all things like Pain and Loneliness and Misery, and the surnames are all about ten names long.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

I think I've got far too little Pain and Misery so far. I've mostly got boring stuff like Maria and Agnes and Isabel, or Luz and Pilar and Juan. But I'm doing my best to ramp up the length of the family names.

There's a great example on that page (http://yuba.stanford.edu/~molinero/html/surname.html):

Carlos María Eduardo García de la Cal Fernández Leal Luna Delgado Galván -- isn't this wonderful?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

And people say "But if children take their mother's surname, it will be too difficult understand!" Spain laughs in their faces :-)

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Not only that, but Spain also had to make concessions to women's lib so the places of maternal and paternal surname are now interchangeable...

[azdak.livejournal.com]

What a fabulous name! Can you imagine falling in love wiht him as a teenager and scribbling Mrs Carlos María Eduardo García de la Cal Fernández Leal Luna Delgado Galván all over your schoolbooks?

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Actually,that wouldn't be necessary because you'd never take his name. You would just stay plain old Nieves Gomez Sanchez. But you could make up fancy baby names like

Juan de la Cruz Carlos María Eduardo García de la Cal Fernández Leal Luna Delgado Galván Gomez. Or something.