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This is not just an Asian thing, Hungarians put their family name first (another reason not to call it a "last name"). Not to forget the special case that peop
by jll29 3y ago
This is not just an Asian thing, Hungarians put their family name first (another reason not to call it a "last name").
Not to forget the special case that people may only have one name (for which some immigration offices had to invent the rule to repeat the single name twice, as first and last name, to comply with online and offline forms that have these often mandatory fields). So we may add two patterns to your pattern list:
Only, Only
Only
Localization is tricky, not just for names, e.g. postcodes (GB) and zip codes (US) come after the city ("London SW4 0AF", "Beverly Hill, CA 90210"), in many other places before (e.g. FR, DE, e.g. "91054 Erlangen").
- devoutsalsa 3y agoI was recently in India. When using Zomato to order a food delivery, I was confused why the address form was asking for a PIN code. It took a moment to realize that PIN code was referring to what I think of as a zip/postal code.
- searchableguy 3y agoWhere did you visit in India? You liked it? :D
- devoutsalsa 3y agoJodhpur, Pune, and Agra (Red Fortress, Taj Mahal. I also went to Ellora Caves, which was amazing! India is great :)
- searchableguy 3y agoAwesome! I hope you tried all the food items including desert delicacies cooked in sand and charcoal.