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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can't pronounce a newline, so there's that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Just pronounce \n as a glottal stop.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

But differently spelled names are legally distinct.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

John
(long pause)
Doe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

But something has to be written on the birth certificate and social security card, and that's what everything else will expect you to use. I think just due to technical limitations (e.g. of the printer/template for those things) it wouldn't be allowed, but I dunno about legally