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From: oriolekid

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Date: 1/23/2011 9:49:45 PM
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My Grandfather was born and emigrated from Lithuania and I am upset that I have not seen a Sokas at all in any of the players I've encountered. Is that a common name?

From: Rycka

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Sokas as a first name wouldn't be anything like lithuanian names. but as a last name, it would be uncommon, but possible.

From: iwen

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They're all Final Fantasy fans.

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Date: 1/24/2011 8:34:41 AM
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In the case of European nations it would be specific to each nations use of the roman alphabet or others. If the way teh roman althabet is used for the official language there is radically different then names from nearby nations I would imagine that immigrants would change their names to the spellings of their new nation once nationalized (gaining citizenship there) but maybe they would retain their previous nation/peoples last names and first names or religon. It really depends on teh nations.


In fact, that's exactly what happened in the past. Just a few examples:

Nowicky->Nowitzki (Polish->German)
Markwart->Marquard (German->French)
etc.

I agree with your sentiment on the hair colors of Asian people, and Japanese in particular. I had a blonde Japanese SF until recently. While that sure was fun, I don't think there are that many blonde Japanese guys around (I don't know a single Japanese who is blonde, and I do know quite a bunch). Giving them a 1% chance of being blonde or ginger seems ok to me, but any more than that sure seems very very unlikely.

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Except that the German version is not German, but really a butchered Polish one. So no, the sensibilities in Europe aren't that much better. Or at least they weren't until the end of WW2 and the foundation of the EU. And even then, there's still lots of people who really aren't bilingual, or, at most, know some English and their own language but nothing else.

From: oriolekid

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Date: 1/24/2011 10:11:12 PM
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Yeah what he said^

The last name Albrit(sp?) was/is German and now in US you don't find that as often as you find it's better sounding variation Albright. What ever sounds better off the tongue in US(don't know about Australia as I am not from there) people use.

Last edited by oriolekid at 1/24/2011 10:12:02 PM

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I guess for the USA it is a regional thing because where I used to live there were many bilingual people. Overall the 2005 census found 9% to be bilingual, a number which I guess has gone up slightly in the 5+ years since.

Once I scored a basket that still makes me laugh.
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