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Most languages of East Asia have a Surname First Name order (even with limits to how many syllables the family name can have). So Mr. Shinzo’s first name is Abe
by ulfw 6y ago
Most languages of East Asia have a Surname First Name order (even with limits to how many syllables the family name can have). So Mr. Shinzo’s first name is Abe, written as Shinzo Abe.
Same with Korean’s Kim, whose first names are Jong Un or let’s say Vietnamese’s Ho Chi Min, whose surname was Ho. Sun Yat-sen (last name Sun), Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen (surname Tsai), Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew (Lee family) etc etc. You get the idea.
- magnio 6y agoNitpick: the name is Ho Chi Minh, not Min.
- Igelau 6y agoThat's the kind of thing I just assume a mobile keyboard autocorrected. It's a forum, not a publication. Armchair editors need not apply.
- ulfw 6y agoMin/Max... That's exactly what happened. The beauties of typing this on an iPad ;)
- Gigablah 6y agoYou could have stopped after the first sentence.
- lolsal 6y agoYour assumption is fair, and feedback is generally welcomed, but this kind of opinion is not helpful or solicited. Some people may not know the correct spelling.
- henearkr 6y agoI think you got this backward, Abe is his family name. Er, depends on what you call his "first name" lol.
- robin_reala 6y agoFirst- and sur- are part of the problem here. People tend to talk about given and family names to distinguish name semantics from name order.