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Is it so strange for someone to have only one name? It's very common in my country for someone to have only one name, e.g. Andy. There's no middle name and/or last name.
Whenever a Western media is covering a news in my country and they happen to be interviewing someone with only one name, they'd always put an explanation that "Andy, like many people in the country, goes by only one name". Is the explanation needed? When you see a guy with one name do you actually wonder what the rest of his name is? I find this odd...

Yes, it is strange.
Having surname gives you a background for people to look at. Having none makes you suspicious/strange. A generic name like Andy doesn't help either.

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So the explanation is really needed? I mean, this is usually just one random guy among the many people interviewed for an article.

I would say the explanation would not be necessary, but it provides some good background information. I don't know how interesting it is to other people, but if I heard that I'd think it was cool. If they didn't say it then I'd just assume they were leaving out his surname because it's either not needed or for privacy reasons.

I wish I only had one name, though I suppose it wouldn't be very special if everybody in the country had one name also.

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If nothing else, that sounds extremely confusing. There's gotta be loads of Andy's, and without a last name, their full names are all exactly the same 🤣

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So the explanation is really needed? I mean, this is usually just one random guy among the many people interviewed for an article.

Yeah, I think it's pretty necessary.
I mean think about it.
Guy1: Hi, My name is Andy
Guy2: Andy what?
Guy1: Just Andy.
Guy2: ...what, did you just appear out of thin air or something? Surely you have a father or a family you belong to.
Guy1: Nope, just Andy.
Guy1: Rrriiiiiight.... ಠ_ಠ

Everyone has a last name. We all belong to a family of some kind - real or not.

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So the explanation is really needed? I mean, this is usually just one random guy among the many people interviewed for an article.

Yeah, I think it's pretty necessary.
I mean think about it.
Guy1: Hi, My name is Andy
Guy2: Andy what?
Guy1: Just Andy.
Guy2: ...what, did you just appear out of thin air or something? Surely you have a father or a family you belong to.
Guy1: Nope, just Andy.
Guy1: Rrriiiiiight.... ಠ_ಠ

Everyone has a last name. We all belong to a family of some kind - real or not.

sadly not entirely true... u only say that cuz your culture thought you that way..

here's an example: my dad's name consist of 1 word only (no surmane), so does my mom.. mine consist of two word, both which don't have anything to do with my dad's/mom's name just like my brother and sisters' names.. we have no family name, and in my country that doesn't mean we have no family

surname as a family name only exist to people that adopt that as their culture...
in some culture to define their lineage, one just simply introduce oneself as: "own name" son of "father's name" or "own name" of "kin's name". this culture still exist..

in other culture (mine for example) when a man is married he is given a new name by the elders of his mother/father/both, and from that point onward his entire family must call him with that name, as well as him must introduce himself toward his kin using that name..

every culture has different treatment toward naming... when the media put this

"Andy, like many people in the country, goes by only one name".

they simply trying to explain that this is the culture on that place, so the reader wont get confuse when reading it...

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Surnames have arisen in cultures with large, concentrated populations where single, personal names for individuals became insufficient to identify them clearly. Many cultures use additional descriptive terms in identifying individuals. These terms may indicate personal attributes, location of origin, occupation, parentage, patronage, adoption, or clan affiliation. These descriptors often developed into fixed clan identifications which in turn became family names as we know them today.

So, surname only come about when needed. For your counrty, it's not. From most other places, it is. Therefore, when interacting with a people where it is nesessary to have a last name, it is important to explain it was unnessary rather than an alias of the individual in question.

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therefore, when interacting with a people where it is necessary to have a last name, it is important to explain it was unnecessary rather than an alias of the individual in question.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

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sadly not entirely true... u only say that cuz your culture thought you that way..

Funny you should say that because...

in some culture to define their lineage, one just simply introduce oneself as: "own name" son of "father's name" or "own name" of "kin's name". this culture still exist..

I belong to this culture.

When I migrated to "the western world", I found that it was more convenient to pick up my surname than having to repeatedly explain that the last two words of my full name are my dad's name. Even then, it was annoying when they insist on what my surname is due to their system of "the last word of your name is your surname" - so the name on my driver's license and a few other legal documents is technically incorrect.
To avoid this, I have to fork out $250 to legally change my name and drop the "son of <father's name>" and just use my surname...which is too troublesome for me :\

So yeah, if you find it odd or annoying to have to explain your lack of a surname, adapt with the "rest of the world".

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Well scyfon, you can have your surname as (your father's name)+son. That is how most of the europeans did it until they started keeping a constant last name. Hence, son of Jack = Jackson. If you have children, you can give them this name, the mother's last name, or Scyfonson.... just a thought.

Or you could go with Mc/Mac(father's name) or just (father's name) or O'(father's name) (I'm mostly giving the british variations... simply because it would amuse me when someone is confused by your Irish/Scottish last name.)

Hell, my surname is just a corruption of a first name. So, at one point in time, my male ancestor had a father named from a version of my last name.

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Or you could go with Mc/Mac(father's name) or just (father's name) or O'(father's name)

Huh. Didn't know about that one (edit - those two).

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Slash is used by the western media fandoms specifically in reference to fanfic/art (though the usage has expanded to original media) and yaoi is used in reference to original media and fanfic/art/doujin by anime/manga fandoms . Slash technically isn't bound by yaoi conventions (like tall masculine seme/short girly uke) and the like, except it usually uses them and a lot of yaoi is breaking with those conventions, but yeah. So I'll go with slash=western media, yaoi=anime/manga

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It's a property of integration over even symmetric functions