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(...) If those guy in 17xx voted for the other language to use as national language, you all would be speaking german. 8-) (AFAIK, there was a voting once to determine which language to use as national language, and english won by just one vote (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
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(...) Queen Victoria and Albert probably were speaking German. :-) (...) I thought that was in a single state, not the whole country. Gosh, though, that would be amazing to have the whole country not stumbling over my last name (but then again, like (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
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(...) The difficulty of my last name is vastly overblown... (...) Mine too. But no one believes me. If you just use every letter in my last name, in the order that they are present, you'll get close enough as makes no difference to the correct (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
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(...) Pine-ee-ah-zek. See, my guess is that it would not follow english and the Pien would be pronounced as two syllables. Or possibly more Germanic where it would have a long E sound rather than a long I. (...) Ah, well, as you said, no one (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
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(...) Those variants are all close enough. My relatives use all of those variants, and none of them are "wrong". Where people really go off the rails is that they don't keep the letters in the right order. I get Peezniak, Piniaski, Pinziak, Pinekski (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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