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I've been called Â~™mile or similar a few too many times before discovering my name is actually spelled Emile on my birth certificate. I stopped even trying for
by emilecantin 3y ago
I've been called Â~™mile or similar a few too many times before discovering my name is actually spelled Emile on my birth certificate. I stopped even trying for Émile at that point.
Also, to the original article's point, it looks like these websites would exclude like half of Québec's population; dual last names are very common here (women keep their names after marriage, making the "mother's maiden name" security question pretty stupid).
- yukkuri 3y ago"Security questions" are as a class pretty stupid.
- TacticalCoder 3y ago> ... before discovering my name is actually spelled Emile on my birth certificate. I stopped even trying for Émile at that point. Diactrics on uppercase letters weren't that common before: they were officially supposed to be there on uppercase characters but: - old french typewriters didn't have them (they had the lowercase é, è, à etc. though) - people using early computers had no idea how to encode them at all (but é, è, à etc. were on the keyboard) [1] But "ATTENTION MARCHE" and "ATTENTION MARCHÉ" are two very different things. It's simply wrong to use the first one if you meant the second and vice versa. Now I know a friend who lives in the US and who simply dropped the diacritic from its family name: so now he and his kids have a "different" family name than his family in Europe. He found it easier that way. [1] People using Word in the early nineties had to type 'é' and then select that character and go to a menu to transform it to uppercase, because "shift+é" would enter the digit '2'.