Context-sensitive naming practices. There's got to be a nugget of something there.
So one might have a professional name used by subordinates, another name used among co-workers at the same level, and still another used by superiors, a name used among friends, another used when newly introduced in social situations, and yet another among family.

Then again, that might not be all that alien. A man might be Daddy at home, Marquis of Everfields at court and Captain Hostetler aboard the ISV Flaming Brand, his friends might call him Sam, his wife Samual and his enemies That Hostetler Bastard. Only all of those have to be officially recorded.

> On Sep 4, 2015, at 8:44 AM, "Bruce  Johnson" <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
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>> On Sep 3, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Freelance Traveller <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
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>> It has been previously noted that Chinese immigrants often take Western
>> "use names" as their legal 'given' names.
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> I can attest that this is increasingly common with Koreans as well; students, at least. It’s lead to one person here in the College having two system accounts, and thought that she HAD to have two, because she was a student employee in one context and a student in another.  That was !fun to untangle…
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