Re: Láadan

Zesefde Dan Sulani  <dnsulani@...> ta 2002.12.15. her 13:08:12 +2h:

> On 12 Dec, Mau Rauszer wrote:
>
>     Here in Israel, there are many family names that can
> also be first names, for example David, or Joseph.
>     For those who don't know me, I am a speech-language-
> pathologist and I often run into questions as to how to
> fill out those all-important forms (  :-P  ), when I get a referral
> for "David Joseph" or something similar! People here sometimes
> refer kids to me by their first name first and sometimes by their family
> name first, so one can never just assume.
Oh, really? I saw once a name somewhere (in television I think)
"Miklós Miklós" (Michael Michael, anglicized). Then, there's no matter
which is the family name :))))

>     But this only works with male names. (Please, no feminist flames ---
> I'm merely pointing out what exists, not justifying it.)
> Had I come across the name, Abraham Sophia, I would have
> assumed that Abraham would have to be the family name since
> Sofia, at least IME, probably wasn't.
And you would assume right. That's it.

>     It gets even more confusing with gender-neutral names which also might
> be found as family names! For example, |gal| (= wave).
> A sadistic parent might decide to name his/her kid |gal| and then,
> not only would it not be clear what gender the kid was, but the kid would
> be called |gal gal|, and |galgal| in Hebrew means "wheel"!  :-)
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Mau
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