Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!
Nguyen Tam Chinh
chinhngt at sectorb.msk.ru
Tue May 17 10:51:28 PDT 2005
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:17:45PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>> Hi Joseph,
>>
>> K?vesd?n G?bor wrote:
>>> Dear Bill and everyone,
>>>
>>> just a little comment: as far as I know there are two countries where
>>> the first name and the family name is used in different order, and these
>>> two countries are Japan and Hungary. I'm Hungarian thus my name often
>>
>> They are not allone. China also does it and the 'official' Germany, but
>> it is not commonly used.
>>
> Well, (Gary said, ddeliberately changing the ^Subject:),
> interesting. My mother's parents are from Hungary, two of my
> dad's grandparents from Germany.
>
> Didn't know about Hungary (or Japan). China, yes. Anybody
> on this geek list know any other societies where the surname
> is traditionally presented first and the given name last?
>
In Vietnam :)
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