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fun fact I can't understand kannada or any monkey language at all. Panjabi and Hindi, yes. A bit of Bengali. But once you get to monkey languages, nnnnnooooo
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My fiancé family
doesn't seem to follow 
that for whatever 
reason but idk if that was fricking an immigration 
thing or just how their family 
does it.
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Does she have more names or less?
I think it depends a bit on the local settlers, the Portuguese were notorious for giving their kids a billion names
The first
emperor's name was
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The French also give many names.
Macron's full name for instance is Emannuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron.
Pra falar verdade quase ninguém usa mais do que um nome a não ser que seja composto. Eu conheço um "Fernando Lucas Sebastião" mas todo o mundo chama o cara de Nando.
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Pinoys do too, wife and her family all have 4 names and for
I actually use the second first name while her family refers to her by the other. It's a Catholic thing I guess? 
I'll have to try to look into the origins of the practice more. 
@C333
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I can barely remember 1 name I'd be screwed in these cultures
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Not a catholic thing (Italians and French only have one surname for instance), it's the Iberian naming costume. But in Spain it's the opposite to Portugal and Brazil.
Father's surname first then mother's paternal surname second and you get called by the paternal surname, at least that's the standard for Spanish speaking Latam countries.
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Oh, over here the mother's surname either gets shifted to a middle name (creating 5 name scenarios
) or lost like for Anglos. We stuck with first name-first name-mother's surname-my surname for legal/documentation purposes since I have a brother-in-law to pass on the paternal line for her family. Though he's shacked up with a woman in her 40s presently 
so I'm not certain if we can bank on that occurring. I've never really had a MILF thing, it's a bit puzzling since he's handsome and the population here is very young in general. Premarital relations aside, to each their own.
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The second surname should simply be your mother's maiden surname, it's not complicated. I know some LATAM countries like Chile do that as well, requesting foreigners to have 2 surnames. In Brazil you don't need to do that, my mother only had one surname until she married my father and added his surname at the end of hers.
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I think you severely underestimate the stupidity of both myself and the general population,
@nuclearshill. 
In America losing the paternal surname in favor of the husband's is the standard, so we just went with that. 
At the time I didn't really think about it.
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Most Brazilian married foids go by their husband's surnames, they just don't lose their maiden names. Not adding their husband surname is a new phenomenon here.
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They're mostly Portuguese and Native
with some african 
so it sounds odd that they don't. I'm kinda curious 
now
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Having several names is useful to dinstinguish people cuz I swear portugoloids only have like 10 surnames. You can throw a rock up the air in Brazil and it will strike either a Silva, Souza or dos Santos.
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She only has one surname? Because we mentioned that's a thing here too, it's not mandatory to have 2 surnames
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Yeah but it sounds uncommon unless your family
are fricking recent migrants from Europe 
from what y'all're saying. I might ask them about that later 
I'm kind of curious 
now
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