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There's a story (whose veracity I have not verified) that some of the stranger dutch surnames are because when some older occupying power (the spanish? Napoleon
by 082349872349872 2y ago
There's a story (whose veracity I have not verified) that some of the stranger dutch surnames are because when some older occupying power (the spanish? Napoleon?) came in and immediately took a census, farmers gave in joke names, little thinking their descendants would still be known, and catalogued, by them.
"En we noemen hem Robbert Gegevenstabeltje"
- amelius 2y agoHow does that relate to my question?
- 082349872349872 2y agoIt doesn't answer your question, but it relates another instance in which the dutch (at least supposedly) actively illegibilised themselves under the shadow of external data-gathering.