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I haven't seen anywhere noted that a significant part of humanity don't have surnames, eg many Indonesians. How to enforce a real name-like policy under these c
by gbog 15y ago
I haven't seen anywhere noted that a significant part of humanity don't have surnames, eg many Indonesians. How to enforce a real name-like policy under these conditions?
- shabble 15y agoOr the massive variation in transliteration from non-latin alphabets. Not to mention, the vast majority of Chinese students I met at uni would pick an easily pronounceable "English" name. I bet that's not on their passport.
- gbog 15y agoChinese people with English names: a bit off-topic but the current trend for Chinese where I work and around (Beijing Web corps) is to avoid these English names and use the pinyin translitteration or abbreviations instead, but this also is a can of worms if one want to enforce real name policy. In the South of China some people's family name is just "Ng", some legitimate transliteration of a given name could be "nvzhi" where "i" is not a vowel but "v" is! I which a good time for the humans or the bots that will have to enforce real name policies there...