On 05-Nov-08 18:50, nemesis wrote:
> andrel escreveu:
>> 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.
> 
> Ludwig and Friedrich are pretty good indications of german nationality.
exactly. Somehow I think at least one of us is not getting what the 
other means.

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