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Que es Berto's last name?

  • Zeña 28
  • Mego 2
  • Saldaña 91
  • Ormeño 51
  • 2021-04-27
  • —2021-04-28
  • 172 votes
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Just like the Childlike Empress in the Neverending Story, I need you to name this guy. 

(Okay, not JUST like the Childlike Empress 'cause it's not a new name and it won't save the world BUT... I'll scream it out the window in the rain like Bastian.)

Bonus, here's Berto's and Meighan's outfits for this chapter! That sweet jumpsuit was inspired by a pattern on Deer and Doe.

Okay, what's Berto's last name? You have 24 hours!

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Sparkle.Vision

A video of you screaming the name out the window in the middle of a rainstorm WOULD be epic!

Matthew Welmers

I appreciate that Berto's possible initials are: BZ BM BS BO

Sarah Swett

Always wild to make a choice based on sound and rhythm and just plain mouth pleasure, and then discover that the majority of voters agree— if perhaps not for the same reasons — even, as Matthew points out above, when it makes his initials BS which had not occurred to me until I got here.

NJGR

I don't know if Meighan is the name-changing type, but Meighan Mego made me snort.

Andy Ihnatko

I went with "Ormeño." But I was 100% treating this like "Vote for Meighan's (potential, if she's into that) last name," not Berto's.

Kier Salmon

Don't know if Beto will use the Castellan pattern of Ortiz-Espinoza (i.e. Paternal lastname, maternal last name.) In spanish one does not hypenate. If Beto were to introduce himself as Beto Ortiz Espinoza, then his interlucotor would know that it's "Beto Ortiz" for most things, and "Beto Ortiz Espinosa" for official legal stuff. The hyphen had to go in because Americans were putting people in the system as "Beto Espinoza" which entirely perplexed them... "Why are they calling me a bastard?" I had on woman i was interpreting for who said, "Ask them why they have me as "Marta Sanchez." "Well, that's her husband's name, isn't it?" Well, no, her husband was Marcos Delgado Sanchez. and she was Marta Perez Orozco. The baby they were expecting would have been Luis Delgado Perez. It took them three tries to straighten out her records and that particular receptionist grumbled the entire time about demanding people who needed things perfect. I didn't say anything mean to the receptionist.

Iitu Ducin

Thanks for pointing out to me why Mego had stuch few votes :D

Sarah Manx

Thank you for taking the time to write this, because I just learned a lot and I appreciate it!

Douglas Appelt

LOL! I didn't even think of that when I voted. :D

Douglas Appelt

I was torn between Sal-danya(?) and Or-Maynyo(?) but went with S. (I'm guessing on the pronunciations here since I think "ñ" has a "ny" sound to it. Please correct me if wrong. Also, y0 PATREON! What's with showing me poll results before I even vote? Don't you think that kind of influences voters?

dcorsetto

WHOA, really?! Anyone else seeing the poll results before voting?? That's screwed up for sure!!

NJGR

My spouse and I married almost 15 years ago, and it's been interesting to see the changes in how government entities and companies handle last names. We both changed our last name to both last names, no hyphen: "First Middle Mine His" for each of us, where "Mine His" is our last name. Some places required the hyphen at first (almost nothing does these days). Our medical records just had us as "Minehis" for years, although now they are able to put both hyphens and spaces in the system. I've lived in two states with this last name, and my license and other legal documentation (passport, SS card, etc.) have always had my last name correct, for which I was grateful. People still get confused, but my current state has the last name in all caps, huge letters, above the rest of the name, so it's pretty clear that my last name is "two words, just a space, no hyphen." (I'm used to saying that pretty regularly.) The weirdest part to me was that a few companies looked at my accompanying documentation and letter (that clearly stated "two words, no hyphen, just a space) and just change my last name to "His," so I'd have to fight to get it corrected. For him? No problems. Every company changed it without any hiccups. I was hoping that since a large portion of the world (that you've mentioned) uses this naming convention, it wouldn't be as difficult as it was... but no dice. Programmers are getting better information on this type of thing these days, though, because there are just so many iterations of first, middle, and last names and systems should be able to accommodate them.

dcorsetto

It infuuuuuriates me that "take his name" is still the default. No judgment on wives who want to take their husband's last name, at all (especially if their maiden name sucks, or their husband has a cool-ass name). But the default makes steam come outta my ears! (Also, how weird that your medical records couldn't handle a space/hyphen!!)

Guy Serle

In light of the above conversation talking about initials, full comedic effect can be obtained by giving him a non-standard, unexpected last name like...wait for it...Jones.