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For the record, traditional Indian names are far more complicated. Consider the name of a famous violinist, Lalgudi Gopala Jayaraman Radhakrishnan, also known
by delta_p_delta_x 3y ago
For the record, traditional Indian names are far more complicated.
Consider the name of a famous violinist, Lalgudi Gopala Jayaraman Radhakrishnan, also known as Lalgudi G. J. R. Krishnan. From a Western perspective, 'Lalgudi' isn't strictly a 'name' per se: it is a toponymic surname, and is the name of a taluk (or administrative subdivision: it is a third-order division after state, and district) in Tamil Nadu.
Gopala is an avonymic, i.e. his grandfather's name, and Jayaraman is a patronymic, his father's name. His given name is Radhakrishnan, but frequently rendered as Krishnan.
- muzani 3y agoThanks for the clarification. Not that familar with Indian names, and interesting to know it's as complicated as others.
- jzb 3y agoI wish we had world culture education as a part of grade school, including things like how to address people / naming conventions. I've learned a lot (and continue to) in the last 10-15 years through working with people and reading things in dribs and drabs, but it'd have been nice to know these things before I needed them and not ad hoc.