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Related: as a Swede, the first times I had to fill out a honorific, it felt very weird. And many times they are required. We don't use honorifics in Sweden. The
by tommiegannert 3y ago
Related: as a Swede, the first times I had to fill out a honorific, it felt very weird. And many times they are required. We don't use honorifics in Sweden. The only difference between formal and informal address, is pretty much whether you use a nickname or not. The idea that there is a single category of "western name" is wonky.
Another is that my spoken/given name is after my "middle" name. Especially American forms don't deal well with that. In Sweden, you usually underline the given name, since it's used to address the person. Now I see a comment here saying that's a thing in the Philippines. That's interesting.
- vintermann 3y agoYou used honorifics in Sweden too until fairly recently. Don't need to go further back than Pippi Longstockings (Herr Nilsson, Fröken Prysselius). And in genealogy I see plenty of Magisters, Profosses, Dragoons etc. But Swedish naming traditions are great evidence that there's no such clean divide between "western" and "eastern" naming schemes: There have actually been dialects/areas where they put the genitive form if the family/farm name first, e.g "Dals Olof" even in Swedish, and in Finnish-speaking areas this was very common.
- Findecanor 3y agoI find that while public Swedish records always store my full name, the "underlining" has often been lost. Many times I have been addressed by nurses or civil servants who assumed that my first given name was my spoken name.