[poll] Names!

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To clarify slightly (hopefully): the "more than two middle names" was meant to read "more than two given names (i.e., more than one middle name)". And the "human" option is for those who would prefer to answer neither "male" nor "female"; I take it for granted that most people who chose "male" or "female" also consider themselves "human".

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[opal1159.livejournal.com]

Marriage is far too distant and unlikely to consider. :P

My mom writes her name in English as [phonetically-translated Chinese given name (like me)] [husband's/my dad's/my last name] and sometimes with her maiden initial as a middle initial, but she probably didn't do that until she came to the States after being married, so she never had an "English" name with her own last name on it to get used to already, whereas I couldn't see signing/writing/seeing a different full English name for myself.

In Chinese she is still [maiden name] [given name], but sometimes people in the Chinese community address her by [my dad's last name] tai tai or a yi. If they are calling her lao shi (she has taught in Chinese school), I've heard both last names used (not at the same time).