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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