Re: First report on Coní

Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> Tristan wrote:
> > Is the author of TIPA's name Fukui Rei or Rei Fukui in the normal
> > English nameorder (i.e. surname last)? Also, in cultures that use
> the
> > surname first nameorder, do they use surnames more than given names
> or
> > vice versa?
>
> The Japanese use surname first, and use surnames a lot more than the
> West, but I don't know the situation in other surname first cultures,
> so
> I can't say if Japan is typical or atypical.  At any rate, my
> suspicion
> is that there's no direct connection.
>
> ObConculture: The Kassi place family names after given names, but, at
> least in classical times, never used family name alone, except to
> address the head of the family, since she represented the family.
The Tairezans place the personal name before the family name. With friends and
family you use only the first name, in formal situation the full name. You don't
typicall adress someone with only a family name - it's either only personal
(informal situation) or both names (formal ones). If you speak/write about
someone you do not personally know, you typically use both names the first time,
and then further references to the person in question uses only the family name.

Since using a full name about someone you know well when speaking to someone who
also knows the person well might be construed as unfriendlily formal, it's more
common to distinguish bearers of the same personal name by adding nick-names
than to resort to full names (ie, you speak of "Bob Brown" and "Bob Green" as
"little Bob" and "big Bob", or whatever) as far as personal acquaintances are
concerned. Since Tairezazh is NA, many such nick-names have eventually been
adopted as official family names.

                                                                Andreas

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