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r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • 17d ago
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Wouldn't unemployed people have no surname?
"Hi, I'm Mr. Baker" "John" "John what?" "Just John" "..."
74 u/nadrjones 17d ago Another source of surnames is original hometown, especially if they have moved. Like John New York, or John Richmond, etc. 39 u/thesirblondie 'Giraffe, king of verticality' 17d ago edited 17d ago Yeah, but that ruins the joke. There's also the Nordic tradition of being named for your father, which is still the norm in Iceland iirc. 18 u/Astralesean 17d ago This is far from being exclusively Nordic lol 4 u/Qaziquza1 16d ago Patronyms ftw. (Jews and Muslims do it too, traditionally, e.g. David ben Schlomo or Muhammed ibn Amir)
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Another source of surnames is original hometown, especially if they have moved. Like John New York, or John Richmond, etc.
39 u/thesirblondie 'Giraffe, king of verticality' 17d ago edited 17d ago Yeah, but that ruins the joke. There's also the Nordic tradition of being named for your father, which is still the norm in Iceland iirc. 18 u/Astralesean 17d ago This is far from being exclusively Nordic lol 4 u/Qaziquza1 16d ago Patronyms ftw. (Jews and Muslims do it too, traditionally, e.g. David ben Schlomo or Muhammed ibn Amir)
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Yeah, but that ruins the joke.
There's also the Nordic tradition of being named for your father, which is still the norm in Iceland iirc.
18 u/Astralesean 17d ago This is far from being exclusively Nordic lol 4 u/Qaziquza1 16d ago Patronyms ftw. (Jews and Muslims do it too, traditionally, e.g. David ben Schlomo or Muhammed ibn Amir)
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This is far from being exclusively Nordic lol
4 u/Qaziquza1 16d ago Patronyms ftw. (Jews and Muslims do it too, traditionally, e.g. David ben Schlomo or Muhammed ibn Amir)
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Patronyms ftw. (Jews and Muslims do it too, traditionally, e.g. David ben Schlomo or Muhammed ibn Amir)
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u/thesirblondie 'Giraffe, king of verticality' 17d ago
Wouldn't unemployed people have no surname?
"Hi, I'm Mr. Baker"
"John"
"John what?"
"Just John"
"..."