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Re: And next name after Sarge? or PROPOSAL for Codenames' election



Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>>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)
Hmm. Maybe they'll be more lenient when it's just a label on a cd.

Cheers + SCNR

T.

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Thomas Viehmann, <http://beamnet.de/tv/>

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