Irish Question

George_10

you know why we were allowed to invent whiskey? God let us so that we would not control the world. Or so the rumor goes. We have more fun at a wake than most people have at a normal party. I told my lady forget the funeral and just throw a great party. As a friend said at my father's funreral. "If I offered him a drink, he would set up and say, "I will drink to that.""

Tim O'Neal

Irish spellings and problems

I would like to know if other people with Irish names have as much problems with computer programs as I do. I went to a site tonight to get information on buying a backflow tester gauge. The site had a contact form which you filled out and a salesman would get in touch. The form does not recognize the Apostrophe in my name. I gave up and e-mailed my request I hope I get an answer? This is not the first time this has happened nor the last I am guessing. I am thinking of paying the lawyer fees and changing my name back to the way it was spelled before my Grandfather imigrated here in the late 1800's UI Niall. I am frustrated.

Tim O'Neal

Irish spellings and problems

I would like to know if other people with Irish names have as much problems with computer programs as I do. I went to a site tonight to get information on buying a backflow tester gauge. The site had a contact form which you filled out and a salesman would get in touch. The form does not recognize the Apostrophe in my name. I gave up and e-mailed my request I hope I get an answer? This is not the first time this has happened nor the last I am guessing. I am thinking of paying the lawyer fees and changing my name back to the way it was spelled before my Grandfather imigrated here in the late 1800's UI Niall. I am frustrated.

Jim_19

Tim, just think of it as the price we have to pay for mingling with the common folk.

Erin go bragh

Mark Hunt

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


That is too funny!!!!!!

I'm sure Matt Sweeny would agree!

God bless the Irish!

Mark H

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Mike T., Swampeast MO

It's a programming problem...

...not an attack against the Irish.

I've worked with names and computers most of my life. I STILL write my own programs--while highly dedicated they are also exceptionally functional and time-saving.

Apostrophes, spaces, accented characters, even lower-case characters, etc., all "mess" with computers as they don't automatically sort them the way a human would. If your software (thanks Microsoft) can't deal with such things it generates errors. Some of my most ingenious programming routines deal with names--automatically "unformatting" them into the way the computer "wants"; processing; then re-formatting back to the way people want to see them. Unfortunately few programmers go to this much trouble.

Robert O'Connor_7

Irish...

DITTO! & Erin go Bra-less.... Robert O'Connor/NJ

scrook_2

That's why...

The obituary page in the paper is called "the Irish Sports Page"

Mad Dog

EYE talians have the same problem

Mad Dog

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PJO_5

I feel your pain Timmy...

and to make matters worse, the wife has this last name; Hill-O'Neill.

Try that one...it not only confuses the computers even more than mine, it screws up a lot of other stuff, too.

Even my e-mail address doesn't do my last name justice :-(

Take Care, PJ O'Neill