I did it because no one could figure it out. It'd been 5 years and no one could. It's like having power over someone but you're not hurting them in anyway.
yeah, like i'm sure my mom just put some random fucking letters together and said there's your middle name. It even starts with a "Z" which is really uncommon unless your name is like Zoe (which it isn't) so when people ask what letter it starts with and I have to tell them "Z." Then their first guess is always zebra. Like what the fuck do I look like with "zebra" being my God damn middle name? Stupid ass people, man. Smh.
Don't apologize :) I meant, they usually introduce themselves with their first name and their last name and that's enough for everyone. At school, at work, with goverment stuff.
I think that what she meant that in U.S.A. (she did say "american"), most people would have pretty much just a first name and one last name, with the occasional or ignored middle name. In most Latin countries, you have two names and two last names (with the odd cases who have more for some reason or another... my birth certificate, for example, used to have three last names, until it was "updated" so to speak). For example, most people there would write their names as, let's say: Miriam Elinor Pereira Hernandez. One last name to symbolize the father's family name, and the other to symbolize the mother's family name. When people move to U.S.A., that come from this type of naming system, would find a pain to explain that no, Hernandez is not the last name, it's actually Pereira (the other last name it's kind of, you know, ignored), or actually Pereira-Hernandez. Or, in the case of ambiguous names, Elinor would be omitted, and think Pereira is the middle name. Like a said, it's a pain.
Where I live, people pretty much know your entire family tree line because we identify ourselves like this: [first name] [father's name] [gradfather's name] [great grandather's name] [great great gradfather's name]. For some, like me, that's enough, but most people add the family/tribe's name at the end.
Usually, though, people call you by your name, or you and your father's name, or you and your family's name. I don't know about you guys, but I think it's easier this way because the combination of different names lessens the chance of mixing up people.
But if they have your full name they can put your name in the Death Note.......
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Simple plan: We never tell anyone our middle name's, then we start riots and light cities on fire, but they will never be able to pinpoint the criminals without a middle name. Then after many years of crimes, we will disappear from the earth and on our gravestones everyone will anticipate the unveiling of my name, and it will be revealed I don't have a middle name.
I still think it goes back to Ancient times when full names had power. I believe the Egyptians believed that if you knew a gods true name you had complete power over them. That and when mom yells your full name you know she means business versus just yelling your first name.
What the flippin' hell?! Goddammit, my brother got onto my computer again. Sorry people, I would never actually say that! Now, where is that pesky sibling, I really think his stash of candy ought to be removed for a few days...
Usually, though, people call you by your name, or you and your father's name, or you and your family's name. I don't know about you guys, but I think it's easier this way because the combination of different names lessens the chance of mixing up people.