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At the very least names should be unique strings, preferably pronouncable

by agnishom 11mo ago

prashantsengar 11mo ago
Correct horse battery staple
- cheschire 11mo ago
  “That’s amazing! I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!”
mFixman 11mo ago
You need to have a restricted set of allowed syllables to prevent attackers from having names with similar pronounciation to common ones. In unique name world I would totally for a scammer telling me "Hello, my name is Marck Zuckaberg, give me all your data".
Symbiote 11mo ago
In The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, the anarchists have names assigned at birth by a computer, guaranteed to be unique. They are gender-neutral (I think their artificial language doesn't have the possibility for gendered names) and monomial. (I highly recommend reading the book, it's one of my favourite novels.)
- vintermann 11mo ago
  They are not guaranteed to be unique as I recall, at one point the main character gets in a fight with a guy who demanded he change his name since he was tired of getting confused. Ursula Le Guin didn't sugarcoat anarchism, at least, though I still think the depiction of the main planet system is a lot more depressingly plausible.
  - Symbiote 11mo ago
    Those two names, IIRC, are unique but similar. (Shevek and Shevet, or something like that.)
pnut 11mo ago
Urbit IDs https://urbit.org/overview/urbit-explained/urbit-id https://urbit.org/overview/urbit-explained/urbit-id
tmtvl 11mo ago
Pronounceable by *someone* or by you? Try getting together a native Cantonese speaker, Arabic speaker, and Inuktitut speaker and find a name all three of them can pronounce without noticeable issues.
- agnishom 11mo ago
  Great point. Touché
- sebastiennight 11mo ago
  Great! Everyone can get named a combination of Papa and Pizza, which are the only 2 words I've heard consistently pronounced everywhere I've traveled. On second thought, I think the Japanese say "piza", so we're back to a unary sequence now. I call dibs on Papa¹
  - tmtvl 11mo ago
    Well, Papa, if you've only ever heard pizza being pronounced correctly you haven't played Mystery of the Druids.

At the very least names should be unique strings, preferably pronouncable

prashantsengar 11mo ago

Correct horse battery staple

cheschire 11mo ago
“That’s amazing! I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!”

mFixman 11mo ago

You need to have a restricted set of allowed syllables to prevent attackers from having names with similar pronounciation to common ones. In unique name world I would totally for a scammer telling me "Hello, my name is Marck Zuckaberg, give me all your data".

Symbiote 11mo ago

In The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, the anarchists have names assigned at birth by a computer, guaranteed to be unique. They are gender-neutral (I think their artificial language doesn't have the possibility for gendered names) and monomial. (I highly recommend reading the book, it's one of my favourite novels.)

vintermann 11mo ago
They are not guaranteed to be unique as I recall, at one point the main character gets in a fight with a guy who demanded he change his name since he was tired of getting confused. Ursula Le Guin didn't sugarcoat anarchism, at least, though I still think the depiction of the main planet system is a lot more depressingly plausible.
- Symbiote 11mo ago
  Those two names, IIRC, are unique but similar. (Shevek and Shevet, or something like that.)

pnut 11mo ago

Urbit IDs https://urbit.org/overview/urbit-explained/urbit-id https://urbit.org/overview/urbit-explained/urbit-id

tmtvl 11mo ago

Pronounceable by *someone* or by you? Try getting together a native Cantonese speaker, Arabic speaker, and Inuktitut speaker and find a name all three of them can pronounce without noticeable issues.

agnishom 11mo ago
Great point. Touché
sebastiennight 11mo ago
Great! Everyone can get named a combination of Papa and Pizza, which are the only 2 words I've heard consistently pronounced everywhere I've traveled. On second thought, I think the Japanese say "piza", so we're back to a unary sequence now. I call dibs on Papa¹
- tmtvl 11mo ago
  Well, Papa, if you've only ever heard pizza being pronounced correctly you haven't played Mystery of the Druids.