To confuse matters a little more, Spanish-speaking countries often
change the composition of family names placing the father family name
first, then the mother's.
I try to use both - actually my passport displays it that way...
LF
Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta escreveu:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 23:02, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote:
On Mar 20, 2009, at 14:19 , Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 21:07, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:54:32PM -0400, Ken Waller wrote:
An RPG works for me !
D&D or GURPS?
Or MUDs?
-- Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta
ille nihil dubitat quem nulla scientia dictat
I know the Spanish love long titles, but.
Yours play hell with my Mac address book, it using Santos Baeta as your last
name, Miguel dos as your middle name, and Nuno as your first name. And you
wonder why your address is not accepted by Blurb? Computers be computers,
and to this day do not allow my last name to be used correctly, so I feel
your pain. Adapt we must, or bring down the internet and the "compliance
committees."
I don't have any problem with my Mac address book and my name. Just
forget the 'dos' and keep on reading this email...
First, I'm not Spanish. I'm Portuguese!
Nuno Miguel is my proper name, Santos Baeta is my family name (Santos
from my mother and Baeta from my father). This is the common way of
forming names in Portugal. As for the 'dos', well it's like the 'von'
in John von Newmann - a direct translation is 'from'. When filling
forms I sometimes drop the 'dos'. Usually there is no right way to
fill the fields, and 'dos' is there just to connect my proper name and
my family name.
Name formation is quite interesting subject. Different cultures do it
in different ways. As far as I know, in China it is usual for a name
to be formed, in this order, by a family name, a generation name and a
proper name.
Finally, Blurb accepts my name but doesn't accept my address, just two lines :-(
--
Luiz Felipe
luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br
http://techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/
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