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Bill: OOC: Naming Conventions in Kalistan
Details
Submitted by[?]: Labour Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 4124
Description[?]:
| --NAMING CONVENTIONS IN MODERN KALISTAN-- Kalistani names follow archaic and occasionally bizarre rules of hyphenation: --- "High Form" High form Names are used by Kalistani traditionalists, and most consider them pretentious and anachronistic. The high form of the name has a hyphenated first name, a middle name, and a hyphenated last name. For example, John-Kumar Ivan LeBlanc-Rodriguez. --- "Low Form" Low Form, or "Common Form" is the standard in Modern Kalistan- The VAST majority of the people of Kalistan use the "Low Form". The low form of the name listed above uses the first part of the first name and the first part of the last name, so the same person using the low form of his name would be "John LeBlanc". If a middle name is used as well in the low form it would be the middle name from the high form, not the second half of the hyphenated name, "John Ivan LeBlanc" --- "Hybrid Form" The "Hybrid form," or "Political Form" as it has come to be known, is generally associated with members of political dynasties. Patterned after those who opted into the nobility during the Imperial Period, the Hybrid Form connotes familial association, either through blood, marriage, or option, to a famous politician in Kalistan's history. The Hybrid Form does not carry the Middle Name, as "High" and "Low forms are permitted to do. In the above example, the Hybrid Form would be "John LeBlanc-Rodriguez".. The Hybrid Form which uses "-Ananto" as the second part of a last name is considered a mark of (normally self-claimed) nobility. The use of "-Ananto" as a suffix in the hybrid form carries a special rule: It serves as both high and low form and is indivisible. For example: The "High Form" Marisol-Topaz Elizabetta Bjornsdattir-Ananto in "Hybrid form" would be Marisol Bjornsdattir-Ananto. So any name with "-Ananto" as a suffix is generally viewed to be a "Low Form" name, rather than a Hybrid Form name. There are other noble last names such as "-Dulnar", -Freiheit" and "-Reynolds" in the second place all connote connection with the old Nobility. None of these examples are indivisible the way "-Ananto" is. In the Hybrid form, they contain the hyphenated suffix: "George Howard-Freiheit" but may be expressed as "Low Form" by dropping the suffix: "George Howard". Other hybrid names are associated with long standing political families. In common activities, these usually follow Low form rules, rather than Hybrid Form rules. In official, political settings, they keep the Hybid Rule. See for example, "Hilde Bennots-Salvador" or "David Forrest-Carrangus" Both would sign normal correspondence in the low form: "Hilde Bennots" and "David Forrest" respectively. This last Hybrid name, which is associated with long standing political families may have the famous name in either the first or second spot. The difference in where the famous name is placed would be whether or not the person (or their parents) was born into or married into the political family- "Birthright use" (or association through blood relationship) of the name puts the more famous name first and the less famous name last, even if the less famous is the head of the house, while marrying into the House puts the More famous name last and the less famous name first, and in normal situations, it is not even referred to, unless the person is carrying out a major task which requires especial clout. So, for example, "Francis Bennots-Armstrong's" father may be named "Ted Armstrong," and her mother may have originally been named "Georgiana Bennots-Denton." But Francis will put Bennots first in her name because Bennots is the Political Name. If "David Vasquez" married "Francis Bennots-Armstrong," he could opt to take the name "David Vasquez-Bennots" because he married into the Bennots family. The use of the "hybrid form" is purely optional, and the choice belongs entirely to the individual who is identifying him or her self, and as mentioned, most people don't even have High Form names anymore, while the only people who maintain Hybrid Form names are politically connected. |
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Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:25:05, November 20, 2016 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the OOC: Naming Conventions in Kalistan |
| Message | I am including this here so that it can be referenced in the Cultural Protocols without being included within them, to make the document more concise and player-friendly. The vote is purely for archival purposes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 385 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 365 |
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