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* MultiEthnicName: Though this is everywhere in the Honorverse, hers is the first (showing up very early in \'\'On Basilisk Station\'\') and one of the most flagrant examples. \
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* MultiEthnicName: Though this is everywhere in the Honorverse, hers is the first (showing up very early in \\\'\\\'On Basilisk Station\\\'\\\') and one of the most flagrant examples. \\\"Estelle\\\" is French, while \\\"Matsuko\\\" is a Japanese given name.
Okay, I\\\'d argue that ALAITSF doesn\\\'t even apply here -- this isn\\\'t a contemporary novel, it\\\'s set two thousand years in the future. Given that, for instance, a hundred or so years ago, \\\'Courtney\\\' and \\\'Ashley\\\' were both male names and that less than a millennium ago surnames didn\\\'t even \\\'\\\'exist\\\'\\\', it\\\'s hardly improbable that a given name became a last name in that span of time.
Secondly, we don\\\'t \\\'\\\'know\\\'\\\' where Weber got \\\'Matsuko\\\' as a last name. It could have been the given name (which, by the way, my parents had never heard of, and they lived in Japan for two years); it could have been \\\'Matsuoka\\\'. ALAITSF is for flagrantly incorrect use of a language, not something as minor as that.
I say we strip out the AsLongAsItSoundsForeign example completely, and simply note that \\\"\\\'Estelle\\\' is French, and \\\'Matsuko\\\' is Japanese.\\\"
Okay, I\\\'d argue that ALAITSF doesn\\\'t even apply here -- this isn\\\'t a contemporary novel, it\\\'s set two thousand years in the future. Given that, for instance, a hundred or so years ago, \\\'Courtney\\\' and \\\'Ashley\\\' were both male names and that less than a millennium ago surnames didn\\\'t even \\\'\\\'exist\\\'\\\', it\\\'s hardly improbable that a given name became a last name in that span of time.
Secondly, we don\\\'t \\\'\\\'know\\\'\\\' where Weber got \\\'Matsuko\\\' as a last name. It could have been the given name (which, by the way, my parents had never heard of, and they lived in Japan for two years); it could have been \\\'Matsuoka\\\'. ALAITSF is for flagrantly incorrect use of a language, not something as minor as that.
I say we strip out the AsLongAsItSoundsForeign example completely, and simply note that \\\"\\\'Estelle\\\' is French, and \\\'Matsuko\\\' is Japanese.\\\"
