On 05-Nov-08 10:59, nemesis wrote:
> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> On 04-Nov-08 16:03, nemesis wrote:
>>> Stephen escreveu:
>>>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>>> Did you see the episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? where 3% of
>>>>> the audience thought that "Ludwig van Beethoven" was English? :-D (I
>>>>> have no idea what his nationallity actually was, but I'm fairly sure
>>>>> it's not a typical English name...)
>>>>>
>>>> German! O_O
>>>>
>>>> They (3%) must have been confusing him with Handel who lived in
>>>> England and
>>>> composed Messiah, Zadok the Priest and Music for the Royal Fireworks
>>>> there.
>>> "Ludwig" by itself should be enough. :)

> 
> Why should it?
> 
Because otherwise you can not use the sound of the name as an indication 
to distinguish the two.

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