Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking Portugese, but didn't
find a translator. Which would not have helped me much, it seems.
I will corrrect my address book. But as you know, if the name doesn't
match exactly, Mail doesn't recognize the name. When I find out the
correct name of some of these PDMLrs, and change the address book,
their mail is no loonger recognized.
I'll fiddle with it.
On Mar 20, 2009, at 16:35 , Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 23:02, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Mar 20, 2009, at 14:19 , Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 21:07, Larry Colen <[email protected]> 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 :-(
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
http://gallery.me.com/jomac
http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html
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