DCML Digest Issue 6

[Lars Olav Karlsen]

You learn as long as you live. I for one should be the first to know
this since I have 2 first names myself.

I have heard about your whole name before but never heard the story
behind it so that was really fun to know.

Then I know a little bit more then I did before, and learned that I may
have been brighter as a kid then I am now.



-----Original Message-----
From: dcml-bounces at stp.ling.uu.se [mailto:dcml-bounces at stp.ling.uu.se]
On Behalf Of Don Rosa
Sent: 4. august 2004 18:07
To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
Subject: RE: DCML Digest Issue 6

> From: Lars Olav Karlsen [mailto:donald at lokarlsen.com]
> To: 'Don Rosa'
> No, I have always believed that it was your real name (although as a
> child I thought Don was your first and Rosa was your last)

That's what you thought "as a child"? What made you stop thinking that?

Sure, my first name is Don and my last name is Rosa. Simple as that.
Well, not quite that simple. Actually, Don is one of my two middle
names...
my full name is Keno Don Hugo Rosa, Americanized from Gioachino Dante
Ugo
Rosa.
I ended up with 4 names because my original name was just Don Hugo Rosa.
But
I was the only male grandchild -- I was (am) the last of the Rosa
family. So
when I was still a kid, my grandfather Gioachino paid my father $1,000
to
legally redo the certificate and change my first name to Keno which is
the
name my Grandfather had gone by in America since about 1900.
And I never saw my share of royalties from that reprint, either! I was
being
prepared for the future!

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