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The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D.

The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger Oh yes. At some point this was a very annoying problem on Facebook. Our last name has ‘de’ as well and Facebook refused to have ‘de’ in lowercase in my wife’s name unless she sent them a photo copy of her ID. At some point they started permitting lowercase Dutch ‘tussenvoegsels’ again. But it showed so little appreciation of other languages and cultures. (It’s like Apple/Siri and others pretending that everyone uses a single language in their daily life.)

Posted by microtonal on Oct 13, 2020, 9:54 AM

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The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D.

microtonalOct 13, 2020, 9:54 AM

The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger Oh yes. At some point this was a very annoying problem on Facebook. Our last name has ‘de’ as well and Facebook refused to have ‘de’ in lowercase in my wife’s name unless she sent them a photo copy of her ID. At some point they started permitting lowercase Dutch ‘tussenvoegsels’ again. But it showed so little appreciation of other languages and cultures. (It’s like Apple/Siri and others pretending that everyone uses a single language in their daily life.)

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