Re: And next name after Sarge? or PROPOSAL for Codenames' election
Eike zyro Sauer dijo [Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:45:46PM +0100]:
> Mathieu Roy schrieb:
> > Even to family name? Where?
>
> Russian seems to change family names, at least the name of the wife of
> Michail Gorbatschow(*) (transliteration in your language may vary)
> is said to be Raissa Gorbatschowa.
This can be quite problematic when crossing borders... Many years ago,
my Czech uncle and cousin came to visit us. The migration officer
could not understand how someone called Tomacek could be the father of
someone called Tomaszkova. (Once again, transliterating to a very
broken representation of reality)
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