On Thu, 23 May 2024 22:18:16 +0100, Timothy Collinson wrote:

><snip brilliant list via Jeff>
>Sad that I am, I immediately spotted it was close to a d66 list.  Perhaps
>if my pedantic [REDACTED] player tries some programming, I'll throw one of
>those at them.

I'm actually aware of violations of several of those assumptions:

7: Marriage, in most Anglosphere traditions. And other European traditions.
It's not universal, but it's not rare.

8: In most of the United States, I can legally change my name at any time,
for any reason that seems good to me (I hate being "Matilda"; I want to be
"Ethel" instead), and it doesn't even take more than publishing a notice in
a publication of record. In many cases, all I have to do is start using the
new name. The only time it's a problem is if I'm doing it to evade legal
obligations (debt, criminal charges, etc.).

9/10/11: The symbol that is used as his name by The Artist Formerly Known
As Prince does not appear in any standard character set, not even Unicode.

14/15: You can't ignore the suffixes; if you ignore the "the third" in
"Charles Emerson Winchester the third", you could end up mixing his records
with his grandfather's. Or granduncle's. Or something.

20: Cites to contrary: Madonna (American entertainer). Péle (Brazilian
sports star).

21: My father worked with someone at a customer site that shared his name,
including the middle name, spelled exactly the same unusual way.
Furthermore, both used the same 'nickname' in place of their first name.
While working for my current employer, I became aware of an individual who
purported to speak for another agency of the City, who shared my first and
last name (but not, to my knowledge, middle name).

22/23: By far, the most common Korean family name is "Kim". Between North,
South, and expatriates from both, I'm sure you can find a million duplicate
names. And most of them won't be related within consanguinuity that would
be considered incestuous.

24/25/26/27: I very much suspect that the only one of the name origins
listed here that my employer has not *yet* had to deal with is the Klingon
Empire. Which has at least two different patterns to naming, and at least
three different orthographies. But I only *suspect* it. This is New York.
You can almost certainly hear every language in the world spoken here, and
a few which are spoken nowhere else...

29: I give you the diversity of names and cultures that make up the United
States. Or even just the City of New York.

31: In places where one does not have to have an 'approved' name, it is
nearly inevitable that a child will be saddled with a name from that list,
because one of the parents hates the other, or hates the child, or just
wants to give the society a poke in the eye. I've encountered a woman named
"Penis", pronounced "PEH-nee".

32/33/34/35/36: Several "native American" cultures have a rite of passage
often called a "vision quest" in popular literature, after which the
postulant selects his/her own name. This vision quest usually happens
around the age that the postulant can potentially be considered an adult
within the culture's social context.

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