[mb-users] Sortingorder Dutch tussenvoegsel

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Fred Marchee <fred at intercookie.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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!!!!! ;-) )
>

To be perfectly honest, my ancestors missed a few nobles, and as soon as the
rage was finished people began buying nobility titles :-D Plus a few people
like me who have strange names.

Se we are having the problem again.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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