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> People in my society, at least, agree on one commonly accepted standard for names. For context, patio11, the author of the original list (without examples),
by spiffytech 5y ago
> People in my society, at least, agree on one commonly accepted standard for names.
For context, patio11, the author of the original list (without examples), emigrated to Japan and has noted that it is (was?) common for computer systems there to have no idea what to do with his English name. This included his Japanese employer, who apparently assumed all employees would have Japanese names.
> I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in it.
This problem is notorious enough to have a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
- franciscop 5y agoI am a Spaniard (long & convoluted name) living in Japan, unfortunately I know what patio11 is talking about. I literally have to call today a place to "fix" an application after being rejected twice because "my name was wrong", we'll see how the spelling of my 31-character-long name goes.
- brigandish 5y agoHow I wish this article and information gets translated into Japanese…