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kerstman wrote:
Artoupan wrote:
Well, I think that from another country (like me in France, or like the Admins in... Slovenia ?), spanish and portuguese names are quite the same, and dutch and german names too... |
Ahem: Dutch and German names are NOT the same. Ofcourse there are similarities but also big differences. Take a look at the names of dutch and German soccer players and you'll see. Never seen a dutchman with the name Sweinsteiger and never seen a German with the name Van Persie.
I think you'll get a similar answer from our Portugese or Spanish colleagues. |
Of course, you know that because you're dutch ! But from outside, the difference is harder to see... |
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| Yes, Portuguese and Spanish names are really different |
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| Not so many different from foreigners... Look, I have a portuguese name, and the last letter of my name is an "S". But here in France, there are a lot of people from Portugal with this name, and there also a lot of people with the same name who ends by an "Z". I know the difference, but when I speak with 100% of the people I know who has no origin in Spain or Portugal, they don't make the difference. For them it's the same name. And they absolutly don't know if one comes from Spain and the other Portugal. |
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Artoupan wrote:
Not so many different from foreigners... Look, I have a portuguese name, and the last letter of my name is an "S". But here in France, there are a lot of people from Portugal with this name, and there also a lot of people with the same name who ends by an "Z". I know the difference, but when I speak with 100% of the people I know who has no origin in Spain or Portugal, they don't make the difference. For them it's the same name. And they absolutly don't know if one comes from Spain and the other Portugal. |
In my opinion you are talking nonsense. There are Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German and a lot more national names. Maybe some names from one country may look like they are from another country but you should respect that they are from different nationalities.
Actually: I know Portugese and Spanish people and their names are very different. |
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kerstman wrote:
In my opinion you are talking nonsense. There are Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German and a lot more national names. Maybe some names from one country may look like they are from another country but you should respect that they are from different nationalities.
Actually: I know Portugese and Spanish people and their names are very different. |
I know there are a lot of national names. And they are different. But from another country, some of these names sounds like they are quite the same... |
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We are very diferent indeed. Portugal is our neighbour but even in this game we play in diferent regions (I think Portugal is more mediterranean country than France because cultural context, climate, language,... )
But I didn't open this post to explain difference among countries. In Spanish María is a female name. Do we have to build another changing room for ladies? 
Statistic links show spanish names and surnames. You could use them instead of wrong names |
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cuews, I like your team name !!! 
And I agree with you that "Maria" is a female name... |
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Same on Spain
I´m from the north of Spain. It´s is cloudy, windy and rainy (not mediterranean climate at all). Southern Spanish people are different from northern ones, despite this we both are closer than British and northern iberian people.
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