• @[email protected]
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    251 month ago

    Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can’t pronounce a newline, so there’s that.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        i think they mean that pronounciation matters for determing validity, not for the actual record or distinguishing between names

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          41 month ago

          But that doesn’t really address the original question, does it? You don’t have to pronounce all the letters in a name, so the fact that you can’t pronounce a newline isn’t sufficient to demonstrate that it can’t be part of a name.

    • @Worx
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      71 month ago

      Just crouch down to simulate moving to a lower line.

      John <crouch> Doe

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        1 month ago

        The hyphen can provide indicators on how to parse the letters on either side. “Pen-Island” would be pronounced differently from “Penisland.”

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          11 month ago

          There’s a guy I follow on the internet called “penusbmic”, and he claims it’s supposed to mean “Pen, USB, Mic”.

          Whatever you say, Penus B. Mic.

    • Kogasa
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      But something has to be written on the birth certificate and social security card, and that’s what everything else will expect you to use. I think just due to technical limitations (e.g. of the printer/template for those things) it wouldn’t be allowed, but I dunno about legally