Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:23:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Names (was: cvs commit: src/share/colldef cs_CZ.ISO_8859-2.src Makefile) Message-ID: <19991223102301.S1316@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19991222233729.H322@marder-1> References: <19991222185040.D1316@freebie.lemis.com> <18545.945851513@critter.freebsd.dk> <19991223091834.K1316@freebie.lemis.com> <19991222233729.H322@marder-1>
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On Wednesday, 22 December 1999 at 23:37:29 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > 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? A lot of people refer to him as "Poul" (or even "Paul"). > Is Poul-Henning not a "double-barrelled" forename, like Jean-Paul > (French), or Ann-Marie? Indeed. > Thinking about it, it seems only female names are treated like this > in English. > > What about Dag-Erling? The same applies. 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
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