[seul-edu] Re: correction to "LINUX ENABLES SAFE COMPUTER DONATIONS TO SCHOOLS"

[Douglas Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Josep L. Guallar-Esteve wrote:

> Dr Loss,
> 
> That is a very nice document. Although, I would like to correct an involuntary 
> mistake.
> 
> In your document you refer to Congressman Dr. Edgar Villanueva Núñez as 
> "Congressman Núñez". This is wrong. It should be "Congressman Villanueva" or 
> "Congressman Villanueva-Núñez".
> 
> Why? Let me explain.
> 
> In Spanish-speakling countries (and maybe others), there's no such thing as 
> "middle name" nor "maiden name" for women. 
> 
> There's "First Name" (with any number of names from one to many. Usualy, only 
> one or two are commonly used) and "Last Name".
> 
> "Last Name" are composed of "first familyname" and "second familyname". The 
> first is your father's familyname. The second, is your mother's familyname. 
> Also, women do not loose any of their familynames.
> 
> A ficticious example:
> 
> Juan Gomez Lacasa is married to Maria Sepulveda Marquez. They have a kid named 
> Edgar Gomez Sepulveda. Juan G. S. is son of Antonio Gomez Sancristobal and 
> Pilar Lacasa Rodriguez. Maria S. del M. is daugter of Miguel Sepulveda 
> Quevedo and Maria Marquez Garcia.
> 
> So, Congressman Edgar Villanueva is the son of a Mr. Villanueva and Mrs. 
> Núñez.
> 
> You can simplify his name to "Concressman Villanueva"... but never to 
> "Congressman Núñez"! . If you read the link-name (that you provide in the 
> article), you will see that they use "villanueva" instead of "nunez":
> 
> http://www.pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/villanueva_to_ms.html
> 
> 
> Sometimes, people use a hyphen between both familynames (as in my case) to 
> explicitely show to any English-speaker that the "Last Name" has two words.
> 
> Hope this will help you in future articles and that you will inform your 
> colleagues about this culture disimilarity.
> 
> 
> 
> All the best,
> Josep
> 
> p.s.: Excuse my poor English
> 

Thank you for your correction.  We'll make sure to change our pages to 
show the correct name.  I'm quoting your message in its entirety so 
the people on the seul-edu mailing list can understand the reason for 
the change.  And your English needs no excuse; it's much better than 
my (almost nonexistent) Spanish!


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