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I can read Dutch actually - but sometimes a black hole opens up. And your translation is very clear.

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I suppose that means that you can't use my all-time favourite surname as a first name: VerLoren van Themaat. Always looks like: Lost the subject ... and would count as cruel and unusual, but always gives me a happy moment; especially as there's a large and distinguished family with the name where I live who are, of all things, lawyers!

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And the absurdly long chain of names? There was a proud father somewhere in South America, no doubt Brazil or Argentina, who had a child on the day his team won the World Cup; fortunately or unfortunately it was a daughter whom he named Maria + the given names of the entire team. Twelve names, for one small child. Whooh!

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All the best from South Africa

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