Familynames (was [OT] Re: Conlangea Dreaming)

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:10:58 -0400, Constructed Languages List wrote:

>  I'm a /jun ha li/.
>
>  ObConlang: Do family names, if they exist, come first or last or
>  elsewhere in your conlangs?
>
>  In Chevraqis they come last because it would confuse fantasy readers
otherwise.  In "Alas, Lirette" (F&SF Jan. 2001, forthcoming) the names are
Western-ish but the family name comes first, e.g. Sharadon Brent and
Sharadon Kendra, his daughter.
>
>  YHL
In Viivo, I would be Jonatan di Zang.

BTW, my new email address/ISP user-name:_FengXing-czHANg_ (mangled Chinese
derived from PinYin)
  is "multi-translateable" to:

_feng_ ===> either "crazy" or "wind"
_xing_ ===> either "star" or "flow"

_czHANg_ is - of course - my "iconic" _nom de guerre_.


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