Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:18:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: 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: <19991223091834.K1316@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <18545.945851513@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <19991222185040.D1316@freebie.lemis.com> <18545.945851513@critter.freebsd.dk>
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[moving to -chat] On Wednesday, 22 December 1999 at 9:31:53 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <19991222185040.D1316@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >> On Wednesday, 22 December 1999 at 9:08:35 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: >>> -On [19991222 06:55], Mark Murray (mark@grondar.za) wrote: >>>>> I assume that this guy's first name is Rudolf. I wonder how many >>>>> people reading this would think it's Cejka. Could we agree to put the >>>>> first first and the last last, at least for European cultures? >>>> >>>> Better - completely capitalise the surname. >>> >>> AFAIk that's only used in Japanese and likewise cultures when they are >>> using western type characters. >>> >>> I have _never_ seen it in use in Europe. >> >> It's relatively common in Central and Eastern Europe, even as close to >> you as Germany. I see it from time to time in the German chat list, >> and in Germany almost all official letters address you the wrong way >> round. In my case, it really confused people because they couldn't >> recognize a first name in either "Greg" or "Lehey". > > I had a very interesting sequence of faxes with a customer in Wien > some years back, from memory it went like: > > me to them: > bla bla bla bla > Poul-Henning Kamp > > them to me: > Dear Mr Poul Kamp, > > me to them > bla bla > Poul-Henning > > them to me: > Dear Mr Poul (Kamp) Henning, > > me to them > > 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. 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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