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Subject: [Leica] Spanish names
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Sat Nov 8 08:46:22 2008
References: <7897C4B18487892276DA1AD5@hindolveston.reid.org> <f951d2970811060901l4c40a455xac6b2df1cf751f8c@mail.gmail.com> <507C1691-13DF-48C9-9B22-5543FF454F8A@frozenlight.eu> <f951d2970811061343h6d252ba7r76da25594172cd23@mail.gmail.com>

John,

It is a nice surprise to see that lon the LUG there are more Spanish  
than I thought

Saludos cordiales
Lluis


El 06/11/2008, a las 22:43, John Beeching escribi?:

> Nathan,
>
> Exactly.  That is why my wife is Rocio Gomez Vasquez de Beeching.
>
> John
>
> 2008/11/6 Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu>
>
>> Just to add to John's excellent explanation: as we recently  
>> learned, Lluis
>> is 65 which means that he grew up during the Franco dictatorship.  
>> Under
>> Franco, it was forbidden to use the local languages (Catalan,  
>> Gallego,
>> Basque) in public, so most people used Castillan (i.e. standard  
>> Spanish)
>> version of their names. Recently, Lluis has reverted to the original,
>> Catalan, version of his name. As he said in a recent post, he is a  
>> proud
>> Catalan and happy to be able to express this identity in a  
>> democratic Spain.
>>
>> And most Spanish (and Latin American) people have two surnames. For
>> example, my Puerto Rican wife's maiden name is Reyes Monta?ez.  
>> Reyes from
>> her father, Monta?ez from her mother. After we got married, she  
>> dropped the
>> Monta?ez so for the past 25 years she has been Reyes Wajsman.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>>
>> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2008, at 6:01 PM, John Beeching wrote:
>>
>> Dear Brian,
>>>
>>> Lluis lives in Catalunya a part of Spain where they speak Catalan as
>>> opposed
>>> to Castilian (Spanish).  Lluis is his name in Catalan and Luis in
>>> Castilian.  Both versions of Lluis are pronounced approximately  
>>> the same.
>>> In Spain people have two surnames, one from their father and one  
>>> from
>>> their
>>> mother; so, in Lluis' case Ripoll is his father's and Querol is his
>>> mother's.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> 2008/11/6 Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>>>
>>> I've been wondering about this for a while, but now that Se?or  
>>> Ripoll has
>>>> won both first and second place in the contest, I'm going to ask.
>>>>
>>>> Lluis, I would enjoy seeing an explanation of why you have  
>>>> written your
>>>> name so many diferent ways. For a few years it was "Luis Ripoll"  
>>>> and then
>>>> it
>>>> was "Lluis Ripoll" and now it's "Lluis Ripoll Querol". Is  
>>>> "Querol" a
>>>> matronymic? Is "Lluis" a nickname? Is "Lluis" pronounced the same  
>>>> as
>>>> "Luis"
>>>> or does the "ll" combination have a "y" sound?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Beeching
>>> http://johnbeeching.com/
>>>
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>>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> John Beeching
> http://johnbeeching.com/
>
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