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. 
  But, no, I wasn't thinking about the spelling, only about the names 
themselves.

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