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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
I voted Don't Care because I just don't care. But in the interest of moving things along, I've changed my vote to agree with the answer that seems to be becoming a clear winner. Hope it helps.  Indeed it does. Thanks for your support.  | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
Never heard of this before. I am a Jr. My dad has passed away and I have no intention of ever dropping or changing the Jr. to Sr. Nevermind, I guess that I am not familiar with the USA culture of Sr. and Jr. I have just learned that there comes III after Jr.  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,372 |
| | Posted: | | | | No problem here  Just goes to show you that there are cultural differences that should be taken into consideration when dealing with names. Something some of my fellow Americans should keep in mind at times |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
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Never heard of this before. I am a Jr. My dad has passed away and I have no intention of ever dropping or changing the Jr. to Sr.
Nevermind, I guess that I am not familiar with the USA culture of Sr. and Jr. I have just learned that there comes III after Jr. And sometimes II is used instead of Jr. Skip  | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | I like the comma, because it separates the Jr./Sr. and other suffixes from the actual last name. | | | Martin Zuidervliet
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting lyonsden5: Quote:
Do juniors become seniors? In my own family my father was T/G/L Jr. He named his 1st son the T/G/L III.
After his father passed (T/G/L Sr.) nothing changed. He is still Jr and my brother is still III.
I thought once a Jr. always a Jr., could be wrong though No, you're right. Your father is still junior to his father. | | | John
"Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice!" Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | Of course, Lon Chaney Jr. never went by that name while his father was alive. He went by Creighton Chaney (his real name), and was credited as such in early sound pictures. The marketing geniuses at Universal had him change the name to Lon Jr., which he found distasteful, but he did it since he wanted to work. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | I evaluated a few hundred common names in my database last night. There really is no current consistency either way. In fact, you'll find some actors with more commas and some have most names without. And then there are differences of periods after the Jr. or not. It's really quite amazing when you start looking at it.  | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 951 |
| | Posted: | | | | Of course it also, depends if those profiles actually used the name as credited on the screen credits or used IMDB which never uses a comma. Screen credits seem to go either way however from what I have seen most American films credit actors with the comma. | | | Are you local?
This is a local shop the strangers you would bring would not understand us, our customs, our local ways. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's been several months since we looked at this. Now that there's a ramp up in common names, it might be worth looking at this to see if any new issues have come up that might affect how we deal with these. | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with the results of this poll as far as it goes. We should also agree on whether or not to include the period after the suffix as a standard as well. | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Quoting hal9g:
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Never heard of this before. I am a Jr. My dad has passed away and I have no intention of ever dropping or changing the Jr. to Sr.
Nevermind, I guess that I am not familiar with the USA culture of Sr. and Jr. I have just learned that there comes III after Jr. That's correct. My dad is a jr., but has never used it since his dad died when he was 9. I would've been the third John, with the III, had he done so. | | | John
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
And sometimes II is used instead of Jr.
Skip But II is generally used for someone other than the son of a Sr. - e.g. my eldest uncle was a II because he was named for his grandfather, who would have been a Sr. if he'd named HIS son after himself. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: April 7, 2007 |  Posts: 357 |
| | Posted: | | | | So do we have consensus? Can we start on common names with the comma? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 9 |
| | Posted: | | | | Any consensus yet? I don't know what to do with Elisha Cook Jr. or Elisha Cook, Jr.  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176879/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Cook_Jr. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Elisha Cook, Jr.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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