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If you were free to choose your surname (Last name) and thus create a new lineage, what would you choose?

Is Raskolnikov too tacky?

>> No.4616833

Why would you want to choose Raskolnikov?

>> No.4616843

>>4616833
I can't recommend Crime and Punishment enough, get on with it quick

>> No.4616848

>>4616843

I have read it, I just have no idea why you would want the name Raskolnikov

>> No.4616849

>>4616830
Raskolnikov comes from the word raskolnik, which means schismatic. Also, the character is a murderer and the last person you'd want to name yourself after. If you were to choose a name from Crime and Punishment, it's best you go with Razumikhin.

>> No.4616854

>>4616849
Because i relate incessantly with the character.

>> No.4616857

Of The Sea

>> No.4616862

>>4616854
You're a bitter broke edgy student with delusions of grandeur?

>> No.4616864

I'm rather fond of my current lineage. War heroes, novelists, horse thieves, peasants, scientists.

>> No.4616872
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4616872

I'd need a very spacious estate between the mountains and the sea before I considered something like that; and a large, spacious house with an atrium or courtyard, made of thick granite blocks.
Then I would probably make a surname either from Latin or basic Germanic English. It would be quite plain and descriptive - Stonehouse, to take a drably obvious example.

>> No.4616878

>>4616830
Yeah, don't go with Raskolnikov. Fantastic character, but you don't want the connnotation that goes with his name.

>> No.4616879

>>4616830

"My name is not my name" - Vondas, The Wire.

>> No.4616880

>>4616864
Something tells me you're Slavic

>> No.4616887

>>4616879
>"My name is not my name"
How African-American

>> No.4616891

>>4616887

Actually, wrong...its a Greek who says that. The Afro-American says "MY NAME IS MY NAME!" Marlo.

>> No.4616893

>>4616887
vondas is greek nigga
marlo, a black character, is the one who actually says "My name IS my name"

>> No.4616895

>>4616891
I meant that would be something more suited for an African American to say, seeing as their (sur)names have been adapted falsely.

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4616899

Does it have to be /lit/-related?
As a sweidhs person I would love to take the old noble name "Natt och Dag", which literally means "Night and Day".
Quite a poetic name.

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4616909

>>4616880

Nah, my people are from Alsace. French-German, you know.

They came to the US to, according to an old letter, "stay out of the way of Kaiser Willy and the boys." They suspected, correctly, that the border between France and Germany would soon be an unpleasant place to live.

They did well for themselves in New England, soon becoming rich and respected by cornering the horse-shoe-nail market. Then those damnable horseless carriages caught on and they lost it all. And then they made it back again, in finance, just in time to send some extra sons back to the old country to support the French Resistance. Got a Legion of Honor medal out of it.

Family history is interesting.

>> No.4616925

>>4616899
>sweidhs
I have no idea how "swedish" became that abomination of a word.

>> No.4616930

Nah, my name is one of the few things I truly own

>> No.4616936

>>4616872
stonehouse is too long

>> No.4616946

>>4616830
Well obviously you would have to choose something new or it isn't a new lineage.
You can't name yourself after someone already famous because you will suffer from being in the shadow of the original.
And also it needs to roll of the tongue.
(Btw yes Raskolnikov is too tacky)
Hellfeuer is a great name for example, it means "bright fire" in german, has a cultural ring to it and just plain sounds nice.
Hellfeuer is the kind of guy you hear people talking about and want to get to know yourself.
Hellfeuer would also be a great name for a philosopher, come to think of it.

>> No.4616993

>>4616936
Stenhaus

>> No.4617024

>>4616862
Sounds like the average /lit/ poster to me

>> No.4617081

>>4616862
That pretty much fits most of the people who browse 4chan's board triumvirate of pretentiousness.

>> No.4617095

I'm planning on changing my last name to Lawless in the near future.

Embrace the edgy.

>> No.4617100

>>4616830
I'm an antinatalist breh

>> No.4617177

Singh.

I don't know it just rolls of the tongue so easily. While I have a German name now, it would look good with a chinese one, Xu/Xao or something.

Runner ups would be Levi and Sinclair.

>> No.4617386

>>4616946
I want this name
can i take it

>> No.4617406

Larsen.


I wonder if /lit/ can go guess to whom I refer? It's obviously /lit/ related.

>> No.4617447

Snow

>> No.4617452

>>4617177
I feel like Gustav Singh would be a cool name.

>> No.4617468

I like my current name because it's a commonly used noun in it's language of origin.

>> No.4617476

I'd use Bazinga

>> No.4617588

I take pride in the thought of making something of my name despite any mediocrity that's come before me. It's kind of like I want to bring honor to the last name I inherited, but not to honor my ancestors, just because I take pride in it.

Make a name for myself. With the name I already have.

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4617638

>>4617081
>triumvirate

>> No.4617649

>>4617081
>triumvirate

le patrician face

>> No.4617652
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4617652

No, my name has a history and can be traced hundreds of years to its source in England's West Country before my family became diaspora.

>> No.4617946

>>4616830
Cacacobanomalasky

>> No.4617948

>>4617649
>>4617081
>>4616862
*tips fedora*
good day, my good sirs :)

>> No.4617951

>>4617652
>tfw your last name is derived from a common German surname and the only history behind it refers to the kind of work my ancestors performed.
>tfw you're named after an ice cream shop worker your faggot father was probably screwing.

>> No.4617978

Honestly, I wouldn't change it. Got a random Italian last name that ain't related to any important meaning or person in history as far as I know. It ain't even catchy or anything, but that's actually the reason I like it, it's just a stupid, low profile name that won't ever draw attention to me.

>>4617095
Is your name Lucy?

>> No.4618094

>>4617452
Ahh, Brave New World and your de-culturized names.

>> No.4618149

>>4617978
>seeing this thread is still alive hours later
>Is your name Lucy?
No, but there are other people named Lawless, mainly from Irish or English ancestry.

My ancestry is predominantly Irish but I don't really want to take the name of the Irish side of my family. My current last name is some generic shit that was probably handed out at Ellis Island. I'd like to have something that has a personal meaning but still recognizes a little cultural context.

>> No.4618194

>>4616830
>If you were free to choose your surname (Last name) and thus create a new lineage

Since I'm an adult, I already am.

I'm fine with my current name. Altering the series of letters on a government document won't magically change my place in history.

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4618213

And give up "Engel"? Nah

>> No.4618223

My name is Otavio. I guess Otavio Incandenza would be a nice name, wouldn't it?

>> No.4618254

> Zarakolnikov
> tips fedora

>> No.4618290

I'm quite fond of Cavendish

Ambrose is grand as well

>> No.4618296

>>4616909
Kaiser Willy and the boys
would be a sweet name for a band.

>> No.4618331

>>4616843
I don't like it. I hope it's the translation but I find it very boring. I enjoyed Notes from Underground but C&P just doesn't do it for me.

>> No.4618334

>>4616946
Hellfeuer sounds too much like hellfire, it sounds really edgy.

>> No.4618337

>>4616864
Yes, lineages are great.

I my eldest elder is Nero's Praetorian Commander.

>> No.4618345

Mine would be Renoir

I would get laid everyday even when I dont want to

>> No.4618455

>>4616854
Most fedorable comment I've seen so far today. The bizarre use of 'incessantly' is the icing on the cake.

>> No.4618460

I've always been a fan of Kowalski. Probably sounds boring to Poles, but in English it's movie-star tier.

>> No.4618474

My current last name is Braun. I like it enough, but if I could, I'd change it to Von Braunsweig, so I wouldn't be such a disgusting plebian.

>> No.4618495

>>4616830
Hanoğlu
Han is basically Khan and oğlu would equal -son

>> No.4618497

>>4618474
Make it Von Braunschweig.