http://abroadinspain.com/2009/12/20/is-it-really-that-hard-to-spell-christopher/ A look at Spanish life through an American's eyes.... Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:17:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://abroadinspain.com/2009/12/20/is-it-really-that-hard-to-spell-christopher/comment-page-1/#comment-5933 Victor Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:18:16 +0000 http://abroadinspain.com/?p=883#comment-5933 hahahahah See... we all have problems with our names!!! We need a Standard for Names... hahahahha hahahahah See… we all have problems with our names!!! We need a Standard for Names… hahahahha

]]> http://abroadinspain.com/2009/12/20/is-it-really-that-hard-to-spell-christopher/comment-page-1/#comment-5916 Chris Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:25:37 +0000 http://abroadinspain.com/?p=883#comment-5916 @Victor - That's an interesting point about the surname thing. Now that you mention it, the exact opposite happens to me in Spain. I have one surname but a first and middle name... so, here in Spain my middle name is often used as my first surname and my <b>real</b> surname is used as my second surname. So, people here refer to me as Señor MIDDLE NAME instead of referring to me as Señor LAST NAME. @Victor – That’s an interesting point about the surname thing. Now that you mention it, the exact opposite happens to me in Spain. I have one surname but a first and middle name… so, here in Spain my middle name is often used as my first surname and my real surname is used as my second surname. So, people here refer to me as Señor MIDDLE NAME instead of referring to me as Señor LAST NAME.

]]> http://abroadinspain.com/2009/12/20/is-it-really-that-hard-to-spell-christopher/comment-page-1/#comment-5914 Victor Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:05:44 +0000 http://abroadinspain.com/?p=883#comment-5914 hahahah That's strange because I'm sure most of people in Spain must have heard the name... I mean, it's not that strange or uncommon... I have a problem with that because my surname has a ñ in it... So when I travel my tickets, hotel reservations etc... never match my DNI... hahahah And another funny thing that happens to spaniards when abroad is that we have 2 surnames and when we fill a form we have to use only one or join both of them with a "-" because if not they tend to think the first one is a second name and they would refer to us as Mr. SecondSurname... and that's weird... hahahah That’s strange because I’m sure most of people in Spain must have heard the name… I mean, it’s not that strange or uncommon… I have a problem with that because my surname has a ñ in it… So when I travel my tickets, hotel reservations etc… never match my DNI… hahahah And another funny thing that happens to spaniards when abroad is that we have 2 surnames and when we fill a form we have to use only one or join both of them with a “-” because if not they tend to think the first one is a second name and they would refer to us as Mr. SecondSurname… and that’s weird…

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