Hmm this translation looks far better than the German version ...

I think you successfully backengineered the intention of the joker who created this myth. 8)

Seems like someone stuffed a paragraph of some sci-fi into bablefish and erased the whitespaces and you got the original back. Believe me the translation is senseless crap and certainly no family name (and it's supposed to be German, not Afrikaans, Danish or even Yiddish)!

If an American official really supplied such a passport he was either joking or drunk...

And if the Book of Records really printed it ... ehm ... well maybe that's why they named it Guinness... ;-)

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE: Wow there is not only a WP-Page it's even translated into 5 languages with plenty of Germans complaining in the discussion-page =).

Wouldn't be surprised if he's going to win a nobelprize next week and becomes governor of California shortly after...

In reply to Re^4: Do you have a middle name? by LanX
in thread Do you have a middle name? by ambrus

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