And "full legal name"???? How about my dad, whose full name was Dr. John Michael Patrick Dennis Emmet O'Gorman, PhD. How many rules does that break? I've fought many companies over that apostrophe in my life. Governments tend to throw it away, but it's on my old passport and birth certificate.
--- Dictionary.com's word of the year: *misinformation* Merriam-Webster word of the year: *justice* On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 4:01 AM Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote: > On 11/10/19 1:21 AM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: > > On 10/11/2019 13:44, Doug wrote: > >> Au Contraire, Jens! In many local contexts you can normalize people's > >> names. I was born in Kansas, USA. My parents filled out a birth > >> certificate for me. It had a place on the form for first name, middle > >> name, last name, and a suffix like II or III. > >> > >> That birth certificate form determined that everyone born in Kansas > >> (at that time), had a first, middle, and last name. There was no > >> discussion of the matter. That's the way it was. The form led the > >> way; people never thought about whether it was effective or not. Each > >> newly-born child was given a first, middle, and last name. > >> > >> Effective was irrelevant for that system. There was no option, no > >> alternative. It simply was. > >> > >> All systems are like that at each moment in time. They are what they > >> are at any moment in time, and they force the users to behave the way > >> the system wants them to behave. If you want to change the system and > >> momentum is on your side, then immediately you have a new system - at > >> that moment in time. It is composed of the old system and the momentum. > >> > >> Back to names: just like the birth certificate, a system which > >> assigns a name to you, actually coerces you to have that name, > >> because within that system, you exist as that name. The "names" > >> article is totally wrong when it says that each assumption is wrong. > >> Each of those assumptions is correct, and I can find at least one > >> system which makes each one correct. Within each system, the > >> assumption works, and is valid. > >> > >> My two cents... > > Is not worth the paper it is written on! > > > > So what happens when someone from a family who only uses first- and > > last-names moves to Kansas? > > > > Do they have to make up a middle-name so that he idiots can fill out > > the forms? > > > > Well, in the case of the US Navy back in the late 1980's, when a > > friend of mine from here in Australia, who only has a first and > > last-name married a USN pilot and moved to the USA, she was told that, > > "Yes, you have a middle name." No amount of arguing, or producing of > > official documents, (well, it's the USA, most people there don't know > > what a passport is), could prevail. In the end she conceded defeat > > and became <Jane> Doe <Smith>, for the duration. > > > > Names are impossible, unless you use a free-form, infinite-length > > field, you won't be safe, and even then, someone with turn up whose > > name is 'n' recurring to an infinite number of characters or something! > > > > Cheers, > > Gary B-) > Actually, 'The Artist whose name formerly was Prince' (which wasn't his > name, his legal name was an unpronounceable pictograph), breaks every > computer system I know. > > -- > Richard Damon > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
