From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 22 15:53:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDFE14C49; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA07073; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:23:01 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:23:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens 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: <19991223102301.S1316@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19991222185040.D1316@freebie.lemis.com> <18545.945851513@critter.freebsd.dk> <19991223091834.K1316@freebie.lemis.com> <19991222233729.H322@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991222233729.H322@marder-1> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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