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in reply to a message by cahrissa
Hey Cahrissa,
It would be tough to have names like this in an English-speaking country, but it sounds like these folks have/had these as Dutch names in a Dutch society.
I'm not qualified to comment on whether these are "awful" names if you're Dutch, but they do sound pretty cumbersome (and I suspect, old-fashioned). You said they were "boere" names, so it sounds like you think these names are only fit for country hicks(?).
The Dutch folks in our Netherlands division whom I have contact with (most under 50 years) have much simpler names (like Wim, or Joop, or Derk, or Marjan) but for all I know they've got names like these on their birth certificates.
Anneza? Lu? Any comments from other speakers of Dutch or Afrikaans?
- Daividh
It would be tough to have names like this in an English-speaking country, but it sounds like these folks have/had these as Dutch names in a Dutch society.
I'm not qualified to comment on whether these are "awful" names if you're Dutch, but they do sound pretty cumbersome (and I suspect, old-fashioned). You said they were "boere" names, so it sounds like you think these names are only fit for country hicks(?).
The Dutch folks in our Netherlands division whom I have contact with (most under 50 years) have much simpler names (like Wim, or Joop, or Derk, or Marjan) but for all I know they've got names like these on their birth certificates.
Anneza? Lu? Any comments from other speakers of Dutch or Afrikaans?
- Daividh
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