[school-discuss] Re: Minor mistake in your article

[David Bucknell <david@members.iteachnet.org>]

Great point. 

Thanks a lot. I will send this to the schoolforge-discuss list; unfortunately, 
the message has already gone out, but I will change it on opensourceschools.org.

Sincerely,

David Bucknell
Quoting "Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar@computer.org>:

> Hi,
> 
> In your great and well researched article (yes, I like it a lot), there's a
> minor mistake.
> 
> In the OpenSource spirit, let me provide you a "patch" for the article:
> 
> The Peruvian Congressman's name is "Edgar David Villanueva Núñez". Following
> the naming convention of Spanish-speaking countries, a name is composed like
> this:
> 
> Fist Name: Edgar David (you can have from one to many first names. Only one
> is mandatory. Usualy one or two are regularly used, although the legal name
> is all the names together)
> 
> Midle Name: (none) there's no "middle-name" concept in Spanish-speaking
> countries. Also, the "middle initial" is an unknown concept.
> 
> Last Name: (Villanueva Núñez) Formed by 2 "lastnames". The first is the
> father's family lastname. The second is the mother's family lastname (what
> oyu would call "maiden name", another non-existing concept in
> Spanish-speaking countries: women do not loose their lastname, none of them).
> So the Congressman's family is "The Villanueva Family". His father's family
> is "The Villanueva Family". His mother's family is "The Núñez Family".
> 
> So, when talking about the Congressman, you can either use "Congressman Edgar
> Villanueva" or "Congressman Villanueva" or  "Congressman Edgar
> Villanueva-Núñez" or "Congressman Villanueva-Núñez". The hyphen is a way to
> indicate to English-speakers that the "Lastname" has 2 words.
> 
> Just check mine:
> 
> Guallar-Esteve
> 
> P.S.: As you see, using your mother's maiden name for your credit-card
> password is a silly thing to do in Spanish-speaking countries.
> 
> 
> All the best.
> 


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