From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 22 15:37:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04C5514D87 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:37:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 17371 invoked from network); 22 Dec 1999 23:37:23 -0000 Received: from useraq09.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.136.69) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 22 Dec 1999 23:37:23 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA01604; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:37:29 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:37:29 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Greg Lehey Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Mark Murray , "Andrey A. Chernov" , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Names (was: cvs commit: src/share/colldef cs_CZ.ISO_8859-2.src Makefile) Message-ID: <19991222233729.H322@marder-1> References: <19991222185040.D1316@freebie.lemis.com> <18545.945851513@critter.freebsd.dk> <19991223091834.K1316@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991223091834.K1316@freebie.lemis.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 09:18:34AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > [moving to -chat] > > On Wednesday, 22 December 1999 at 9:31:53 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > bla bla > > Poul-Henning Kamp > > > > Them to me: > > > > Dear Mr Poul, > > > > Which is your first name and which is your last name ? > > Strange. I would have thought that German speakers would recognize > each of the components of your name for what it is. It seems to be > English speakers who subdivide first names. > Can you clarify what you mean Greg? Is Poul-Henning not a "double-barrelled" forename, like Jean-Paul (French), or Ann-Marie? Thinking about it, it seems only female names are treated like this in English. What about Dag-Erling? > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message