{"id":236,"date":"2005-10-13T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T12:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2005\/10\/german-names\/"},"modified":"2005-10-13T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2005-10-13T12:41:58","slug":"german-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2005\/10\/german-names\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8211; German Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here is a scoop from Germany.  This came in Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The Government there has rules on how people can name their babies!  Some rules:<\/p>\n<p>1. No hyphenated names \u2013 like Leonard Matthias Grunkin-Paul!  Why?  Because if both husband and wife come with two hyphenated names \u2013 then their kids have FOUR hyphenated names and the grandkids have EIGHT and so on\u2026 Of course, it is not anywhere assumed that the generations down the line could be smarter to see it and abandon the practice themselves!<\/p>\n<p>2. Some names are illegal \u2013 like Lenin or Schnikis.<\/p>\n<p>3. The First Name should indicate the GENDER of the person.  If it doesnt then the second name SHOULD be given to \u201cclarify\u2019 the matter!  Eunuchs presumably cannot live in that country!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a scoop from Germany.  This came in Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The Government there has rules on how people can name their babies!  Some rules:<\/p>\n<p>1. No hyphenated names &#8211; like Leonard Matthias Grunkin-Paul!  Why?  Because if both husband and wife come with two hyphenated names &#8211; then their kids have FOUR hyphenated names and the grandkids have EIGHT and so on&#8230; Of course, it is not anywhere assumed that the generations down the line could be smarter to see it and abandon the practice themselves!<\/p>\n<p>2. Some names are illegal &#8211; like Lenin or Schnikis.<\/p>\n<p>3. The First Name should indicate the GENDER of the person.  If it doesnt then the second name SHOULD be given to &#8220;clarify&#8217; the matter!  Eunuchs presumably cannot live in that country!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>- German Names<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here is a scoop from Germany. This came in Wall Street Journal. The Government there has rules on how people can name their babies! Some rules: 1. No hyphenated names - like Leonard Matthias Grunkin-Paul! Why? Because if both husband and wife come with two hyphenated names - then their kids have FOUR hyphenated names and the grandkids have EIGHT and so on... 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