lord_tacitus, 7 months ago

@eater

On a related note: there was a time right up through the early 2010s when I, an Irish national with an Irish name living in Ireland, couldn't use my actual/real/legal/whatever name on many Irish websites because they used some off the shelf American validation library that thought "oh no, names can only consist of one uppercase ASCII letter followed by three or more lower case ASCII letters". My last name starts with O' like a vast number of Irish people.

eater, 7 months ago

@lord_tacitus you would imagine Americans would know about that because I feel like e.g. O'Hora is a rather common surname there

eater, 7 months ago

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eater, 7 months ago

eater is my real name, as that is what I'm called and referred to, both in a legal and real sense

eater, 7 months ago

Americans be like "but no your real name is on your birth certificate" A. those aren't as important here, B. that is my legal name, which is entirely different

kkarhan, 7 months ago

@eater #based

minekpo1, 7 months ago

@eater I know this is a joke, but "people call me that" is one of the reason Polish law sets out to change your name. unfortunately you also have to prove the name matches your legal gender, which needs to be changed in court.

eater, 7 months ago

@minekpo1 this isn't a joke tho, to change your legal name in The Netherlands you need to prove you've been called that for the last N years