- From: Kurosaka, Teruhiko <Teruhiko.Kurosaka@iona.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 08:03:39 -0800
- To: "Misha Wolf" <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
- Cc: "Www International" <www-international@w3.org>, <public-webont-comments@w3.org>
Misha, I feel the other way. The notion of the firstname and the lastname are culturally neutral (exclusing those cultures where the person's name cannot always be divided into two parts.), if you interpret the firstname and the lastname literally being the first part and the last part of the person's name. It would have been culturally biased if the text in question were: For example, one ontology may represent a person's name as a single string "givenname surname" while another may have a property for each. But I agree this can be confusing for those readers who interpret the firstname being synonym to the give name and the lastname the surname. A less confusing example would be appreciated. KUROSAKA Teruhiko p.s. Being contrarian, I am trying to answer my surname KUROSAKA when somebody ask me for my first name, but maintaining this position is difficuilt in U.S.A.
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