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...yes? Have you looked at Indian names? Or Indonesian names? Or Ethiopian names
by jmopp 3y ago
...yes? Have you looked at Indian names? Or Indonesian names? Or Ethiopian names
- lmm 3y agoYes. The vast majority of them follow a small number of simple patterns, and it's really not that hard to find a heuristic that interprets them with high accuracy.
- jmopp 3y agoThe prime minister of Ethiopia is Abiy Ahmed. When he won the Nobel Peace Prize, he was referred to as Mr Abiy, which is his given name. Ahmed is his father's name, and it would be incorrect to refer to him as Mr Ahmed. Likewise, many Tamil people often have a first name and a patronymic, which may just be referred to with an initial. Example: S. Ramanujan. Ramanujan is his given name, Srinivasa is his father's name. In Indonesia, the government doesn't have a notion of first and last names. If you have a surname it's interpreted by the government as your family having a tradition of adding the family name to the end (or beginning) of your name. Similarly in India you can have surnames, clan names, caste names, patronymics, or mononyms. Trying to divide a name up into its parts is a fool's errand: Much easier to simply ask, what is your full name and what is your preferred name.
- pharrington 3y agoWhat everyone is saying is that you do less work, use 0 heuristics and guess absolutely nothing, to get 100% accuracy.
- lmm 3y ago100% accuracy but a substantially worse UX for the overwhelming majority of users. A heuristic doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.
- pharrington 3y agoYou say the heuristic is simple. Would you mind writing out the heuristic you have in mind for deriving "name you'd want to be called" from "official name for administrative purposes"/"full name"?