I'm Romanian and my whole life people have referred to me in a last name + first name order in official contexts (school, legal papers, etc)
'Name and firstname' is the common way to ask for someone to put their name on a document or to state their legal name.
How does it work in Spain and Portugal? Wouldn't surnames get longer and longer every generation?
I'm from Mexico but it works the same as in Spain. You don't get the surnames "joint" as one. You get them separately. So, for example, I have my father's "first" surname and my mother's "first" surname.
So let's say my mother's name is Maria Ramirez Ruiz and my father's name is Jose Martinez Ochoa. My name then would en up as Mario Martinez Ramirez
Ah cool, thanks for the explanation.
proudly representing the best order from Hungary. It just makes more sense with Hungarian.
With the name order, yes. I'm also feeling this with the date format we're using (YYYY.MM.DD.). And the list stops here, before we start talking how we use "on, at, to,..." plus other quirky grammar stuff.
ppl learning German: OMG 4 cases‽ Hungarian: we have 18 cases, none of them resemble any language, and we have way too many irregularities. glhf.
on the date format: it's great when it's fully written out, but I specifically prefer the 2000 version of ISO 8601: it allows for a --02-24 format for month and date, and the extra dash clarifies that the year is missing
