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 :) ----- With best regards, | The Power to Serve Nguyen Tam Chinh | http://www.FreeBSD.org Loc: sp.cs.msu.su |Received on Tue May 17 2005 - 15:51:27 UTC
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