[mb-users] Sortingorder Dutch tussenvoegsel

[Fred Marchee]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Sander van Zoest <sander at vanzoest.com 
<mailto:sander at vanzoest.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:05:12PM +0200, Fred Marchee wrote:
>     > I thinks this is the real problem, we are trying to explain a common
>     > sorting order to American Guys ;-)
>
>     I do not think nationality has anything to do with this. It just
>     happens
>     to be that it is less common in English and usually is "fixed" by
>     concatonating the family name into one word. You should see some
>     of my credit cards. ;)
>
>
> We have the same problem in French, although much less frequent (we 
> boast about having cut the heads of our nobles 200 years ago...). I am 
> sure Portugal has the same sorting problem and I guess Italy, Spain 
> and probably many other countries have it too.
>
> -- 
> Frederic Da Vitoria
>   
Cut off the head of the artists with a nobility particle? Mmm, 
interesting way to end this discussion, French are very clever in 
solving problems in a creative way ;-)

Fred (Marchée genaamd Bratengeijer, the French didn't get my ancestors, 
we survived the revolution!!!!! ;-) )