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Philip Newton wrote: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:33:24 +0100, Rhesa Rozendaal <rhesa@xxxxxx.xx> wrote: > >>I just moved to Norway. My address has no street name, and no house >>number (it's a small village, so the postman knows me personally). Try >>ordering anything off the web, it can't be done. > > > I can only vaguely imagine the pain that people must go through who > have only one name, none of this "family name" business, when filling > out forms that require everyone to have a given name and a family > name. What do they put? "Suharto Suharto"? I have a Tamil colleague who has only name, his own, I guess it counts as "first name". This causes him no end of fun in forms and databases. He has settled on a solution where he uses the initial of his father's "first name" as his "family name". > Though the more hateful ones assume that everyone has a middle initial... > > Cheers, -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxx.xx> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack CohenThere's stuff above here
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