Re: OT: passport languages

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Stephen Mulraney :
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>> I suspect not:
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> You're wrong.
Oh yeah? Them's clarifyin' words :)

> It's on mine, and on any EU-passport.
Well mine's an EU-passport, and it doesn't have it. Does not ... compute ...

Actually, mine's from '97, which is probably why. I think my suspicion was
justified. However, it was also wrong ;)



>>  it's on mine, but that's an Irish passport (for furriners: each
>> EU country issues its own passports, but they're simultaneously
>> 'EU-passports'
>> at the same time). Irish doesn't occur , fr'instance, on the
>>
>> (1) Efternavn/Name/Eponumo/Apellido/Cognome/Naam/Apelido
>> etc..
>>
>> page (and yes, "Eponumo" is meant to be in Greek).
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> In my passport, this line has:
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> Nom / Efternavn / Name / Eponumo / Surname / Apellidos / Sloinne /
> Cognome / Naam / Apelidos
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> (and in the "Given names" line, it has "Réamhainm (neacha)" which looks
> as Irish as anything can :)) ).
Ah! Well, it says "forename", but the word after it, "neacha" seems to mean
"person", "human being". It's not the everyday word for a "person", and I wonder
what it's doing there, apart from specifying what object the forename should
belong to...

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> My passport is from 1999, but I doubt they changed the system since then.
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>> I've just noticed with delight that the Italian for "Surname" is
>> "Cognome". Kewl.
> Yep! I found that nice too :)) .
s.
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