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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
Dear Bianca that's still a harmless case of author-sided ignorance.
Once I stumbled upon a piece, where an author named a character, which was said to be Polish, Ivan. A Pole with a genuinely Russian name. That's a thing which simply wouldn't happen.
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A lot of authors (and film makers) think Dutch and German names are interchangeable, too.
At the moment it seems that every other book I read has a Dutch character with a wrong last name in it. And although it's harmless it's annoying and it throws me right out of the story.