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Helen and Joanna are good. I like Wiebke, but only in German. It's good to see Peter on a baby. The twins, Dimjan and Deyvid, will spend their lives correcting, explaining, regretting ... I assume that Dimjan = Damian and Deyvid = David. Dimjan had better not come to South Africa, where dim, meaning unintelligent, only happens in English but Jan is the Afrikaans for John and is widely used; plus, in Afrikaans the word meaning unintelligent is dom, like the English dumb, and going through life explaining that, no, my name isn't Dumb John would be tedious.