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	<title>Comments on: ¿Cuál es tu apellido?</title>
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		<title>By: Joseph</title>
		<link>http://spanish-podcast.com/2009/03/04/%c2%bfcual-es-tu-apellido/#comment-2074</link>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>With the way identity theft is here in the states, its hard to believe people can do that.  But regardless, these companies have such controls and insurance, I&#039;m sure he isn&#039;t worried.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the way identity theft is here in the states, its hard to believe people can do that.  But regardless, these companies have such controls and insurance, I&#8217;m sure he isn&#8217;t worried.</p>
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		<title>By: eleena</title>
		<link>http://spanish-podcast.com/2009/03/04/%c2%bfcual-es-tu-apellido/#comment-2071</link>
		<dc:creator>eleena</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Erik:
Yeah, I know you&#039;re right about this not just being a Spain thing. I&#039;m used to people misspelling my first and last names. There was one time, back in the States, where somebody needed to mail me some info and I spelled my name out TWICE to the lady, letter by letter, over the phone. The envelope I got was addressed to an &lt;b&gt;ALLANA D&#039;ALESSIO&lt;/b&gt;

What killed me was the apostrophe. Who adds an apostrophe to somebody else&#039;s name? I figure the lady who sent the package knew someone by that D&#039;Alessio name and just wrote down a name that was familiar to her. 

@ Ramses: 
I don&#039;t know Varsavsky personally but I&#039;m pretty sure he&#039;s poking fun at the Castillian accent since some Spaniards find it &quot;cursi&quot; the way some South Americans speak Spanish. His blog frequently pokes fun at or criticizes things in Spanish society/Spanish culture that annoy or exasperate him. In a way it&#039;s kind of cool that he has this perspective because he&#039;s probably one of the wealthiest men in Spain, so you would think he&#039;d be one of the ultimate insiders, but instead he writes about his life as though he were a foreigner living in Spain.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Erik:<br />
Yeah, I know you&#8217;re right about this not just being a Spain thing. I&#8217;m used to people misspelling my first and last names. There was one time, back in the States, where somebody needed to mail me some info and I spelled my name out TWICE to the lady, letter by letter, over the phone. The envelope I got was addressed to an <b>ALLANA D&#8217;ALESSIO</b></p>
<p>What killed me was the apostrophe. Who adds an apostrophe to somebody else&#8217;s name? I figure the lady who sent the package knew someone by that D&#8217;Alessio name and just wrote down a name that was familiar to her. </p>
<p>@ Ramses:<br />
I don&#8217;t know Varsavsky personally but I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;s poking fun at the Castillian accent since some Spaniards find it &#8220;cursi&#8221; the way some South Americans speak Spanish. His blog frequently pokes fun at or criticizes things in Spanish society/Spanish culture that annoy or exasperate him. In a way it&#8217;s kind of cool that he has this perspective because he&#8217;s probably one of the wealthiest men in Spain, so you would think he&#8217;d be one of the ultimate insiders, but instead he writes about his life as though he were a foreigner living in Spain.</p>
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		<title>By: Ramses</title>
		<link>http://spanish-podcast.com/2009/03/04/%c2%bfcual-es-tu-apellido/#comment-2070</link>
		<dc:creator>Ramses</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s even worse he makes fun of the standard Castillian accent :&#039;(.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s even worse he makes fun of the standard Castillian accent :&#8217;(.</p>
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		<title>By: Erik R.</title>
		<link>http://spanish-podcast.com/2009/03/04/%c2%bfcual-es-tu-apellido/#comment-2069</link>
		<dc:creator>Erik R.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2009/02/20/fafmuffem/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tell me about it&lt;/a&gt;!

In Iberia&#039;s and Spain&#039;s defense, low level corporate drones in other countries aren&#039;t much better with foreign names.  Iberia sending his information to a dozen credit card companies is definitely shameful, though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, <a href="http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2009/02/20/fafmuffem/" rel="nofollow">tell me about it</a>!</p>
<p>In Iberia&#8217;s and Spain&#8217;s defense, low level corporate drones in other countries aren&#8217;t much better with foreign names.  Iberia sending his information to a dozen credit card companies is definitely shameful, though.</p>
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		<title>By: eleena</title>
		<link>http://spanish-podcast.com/2009/03/04/%c2%bfcual-es-tu-apellido/#comment-2066</link>
		<dc:creator>eleena</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Edwin,
Yes, some of Martin Varsavsky&#039;s readers picked up on that as well and commented about that on his blog. But I think because his last name is terribly misspelled on all SEVEN of the credit cards he&#039;s received from Iberia, I&#039;m pretty sure whatever digits we might see are invalid (i.e. closed) accounts. Varsavsky is a multi-millionaire so I&#039;m sure he&#039;s only letting us see what he wants us to see. ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Edwin,<br />
Yes, some of Martin Varsavsky&#8217;s readers picked up on that as well and commented about that on his blog. But I think because his last name is terribly misspelled on all SEVEN of the credit cards he&#8217;s received from Iberia, I&#8217;m pretty sure whatever digits we might see are invalid (i.e. closed) accounts. Varsavsky is a multi-millionaire so I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s only letting us see what he wants us to see. <img src='http://spanish-podcast.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Edwin</title>
		<link>http://spanish-podcast.com/2009/03/04/%c2%bfcual-es-tu-apellido/#comment-2064</link>
		<dc:creator>Edwin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OMG! He gave out his credit card number to all of us!</description>
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