Just imagine how many 'John Smith's' there are w/i the english-speaking world!

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On Tue, 12/2/14, Mikko Parviainen <xxxxxx@kapsi.fi> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Addendum to cultural note: Naming
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 1:53 AM

 On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:06:36PM
 -0500, Freelance Traveller wrote:
 > The patronymic system described as in use in Iceland in
 my earlier
 > missive has the potential for "collisions" of names,
 much like the
 > Jewish system, and such collisions are generally
 resolved the same way -

 Most systems have potentials for collisions... I don't know
 of any
 people with all the same names (in Finland you can have 1-3
 first names,
 I'm Mikko Ville Iisakki Parviainen), but as we usually use
 only one first
 name and the surname, collisions are easily possible.

 When I worked at the Helsinki University of Technology,
 there was one
 other Mikko Parviainen working there. Once I got the flight
 tickets to a
 conference in internal mail, with the note "are you the
 correct one?" on
 them. I know of at least a third Mikko Parviainen in the
 genreal area,
 and a Google search turns up more of us.

 Also, there are only a bit over five million people in
 Finland. I would
 imagine name collisions are more common in larger cultural
 areas and
 if you only have one first name.

 --
 Mikko Parviainen
 http://pare.iki.fi/blog/
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