Post #2868526
2025-06-05 04:41 UTC
@MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
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@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social 2025-06-06 21:14
@averyvine@mastodon.social @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social This list is missing the one that pops up for me all the time: my last name has a space and two capital letters. No dash. Yes both words are, together, my single last name. Neither is my middle name, or first name. The IRS cares about the space*. I care about the space. It's my space. Yes, the space affects pronunciation. No, it's not hard to pronounce in most languages. It's phonetic. Humans have no issues with spelling or reading my name but computers are too often baffled *There is a whole story here