[Gllug] OT: Police Web Site

[Christopher Hunter]

On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 07:35 +0000, John G Walker wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:05:00 +0000 Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > You are (as you no doubt know) not by any means the only person on the
> > net to have changed his name to a single unusual word (indeed one of
> > the others I'm thinking of has chosen a bicapitalized neologism).
> 
> Of course, there are people who only have one name anyway. I knew
> someone from south India who didn't have a surname. Apparently this is
> normal there - amongst many other places in the world. I never thought
> to ask him how he coped with the assumptions of systems designers,
> 
My Chinese friend, who has only one name, just enters it twice on forms
that assume two names.  This seems to be a suitable solution (as in this
case it doesn't alter the meaning of her name).

Chris


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