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There must be an interesting backstory here. Did her parents deliberately not name her? Did they forget?
by great_wubwub 2y ago
There must be an interesting backstory here. Did her parents deliberately not name her? Did they forget?
- andrewmcwatters 2y agoAh yes! Little miss (indecipherable silence).
- boxed 2y agoI mean.. there are tons of people without last names in the world. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
- easton 2y agoAnd first names, which causes some government agencies to put FNU in that field for "first name unknown". My mom told me about a time they had someone with that situation at work, and people would call the person FNU until they were corrected.
- oskarw85 2y agoFI²N sounds like a nice first name (Fuck If I Know)
- genewitch 2y agoOr NMI for nor middle initial, I think I've heard of stuff like NA, too...
- jachee 2y agoAnd more and more: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
- whycome 2y agoWell if you have one name, that's your last name.
- boxed 2y agoI assume you're making a joke. In any case, no that's not true. Because if it's your first and last name and you type it in both fields, you are now screwed in a different way.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoThe hospital staff filled out most of the birth certificate, but left the name field blank when they gave my grandmother the paperwork to take home. She either didn't notice or didn't care (both possibilities are realistic) that the name field was blank and submitted it anyway. The state accepted it. My mother started filling out her own paperwork around elementary school because my grandmother created so many problems that school staff would simply give up.
- gorfian_robot 2y agoroyalty?
- sensanaty 2y agoA high school teacher of mine didn't have a last name, only a first name. Problem was when she moved (from India) she had to have a last name because a bunch of systems and people assume a last name as a fact, so her full name is just her first name twice because she didn't want to think of a different one :p