Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:30:56 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: equal pay
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Strong, Lee" wrote:
>
>         Great minds think alike.  I'm a Master of Library Science,
> University of Mississippi, 1976, and the only person in my Federal agency
> ever called on the carpet for having office files that were too high above
> standard.

<Snicker>  Don't want the Boss to get ideas, now.  Reminds me of the
time I got mildly chewed out for writing funny specifications.

>         The Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and I have a difference of
> opinion on you Dutch-Americans and others with multi-part names.  I treat
> the entire surname as a unit "Van Dommelen, Erica" while they consider the
> last part as the true surname with the prefix as a kind of second personal
> name "Dommelen, Erica Van."  Heaven knows how they'd deal with the British
> family with a five part hyphenated family name plus the usual personal
> names!

Or, for that matter, some Hispanic names, with lots of "middle" names
and lots of "y"s in the surnames (equivalent of hyphens), all of which
are significant.

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."