• @[email protected]
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    2417 hours 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.

    • @Worx
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      55 hours ago

      Just crouch down to simulate moving to a lower line.

      John <crouch> Doe

      • @[email protected]
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        28 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          28 hours 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.

    • Kogasa
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      416 hours ago

      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