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in reply to a message by Elec Fan
All those names fail what I call the "Facebook test": Among the one billion or so people on Facebook there was not a single person with one of these given names, as far as I could see. No proof per se, but rather unusual for real, existing names.
In my opinion, you should ask your informant for the names in their original i.e. Greek script; it would be much easier to verify them. Now, with Latin script, there is always the uncertainty that a name does indeed exist but you were given a very unusual transliteration from Greek to Latin script.
In my opinion, you should ask your informant for the names in their original i.e. Greek script; it would be much easier to verify them. Now, with Latin script, there is always the uncertainty that a name does indeed exist but you were given a very unusual transliteration from Greek to Latin script.
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