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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago

In South Korea it's actually against the law for children to be given names longer than 5 syllables.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 years ago

Fuck the government, I'll call my child Haneulbyeollimgureumhaennimbodasarangseureouri if I want!

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Han gonna grow up OK. Even if a little resentful.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

하늘별림구름핸님보다사랑스러우리

[more lovely than] sky star cloud god?

[-] Risk@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago
[-] CheeseQueen 2 points 2 years ago

I'm currently rereading the stormlight archive atm lol

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

I don't know about legality, but most forms online in Japan accept 4 characters at most for family name; the vast majority of people have two characters with one and three being less common. Okinawa, I think has the highest instance of 4-character surnames, but I may be wrong on that.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I was living in Seoul many (many) moons ago. I remember all forms having three character spaces each for first and last names. Fun times squeezing in a standard western ten-twenty latin character names. Even transliterated to hangul my name wouldn't fit. It was always a small thrill if the person behind the counter would look terrified and accept it without question or get pissy and refuse it without mercy.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago
[-] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

Linguistic prescriptivism disgusts me.

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Dismissal of context and nuance for intentionally less comprehensive and accurate communication disgusts me.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

People who use words like "prescriptivism" to sneer at others disgust me.

[-] Risk@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

Hypocrite! /s

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

You'll be okay. We all have our pet peeves, and none of us can expect the world to abide by them.

[-] idkwhatimdoing@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

You'll be ok. Sometimes you'll be wrong, and someone will have the right to point that out, but you'll be ok.

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

That's a really dumb name, but we can shorten it to Les

[-] Ignacio@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Your not going to point out they're mistakes.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 9 points 2 years ago

What, you can't remember and pronounce Bartholomew Chungus Gingersnap the Third off the top of your head?

[-] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago
[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Bart "Big" Chungus

[-] QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

A friend from highschool had a kinda long name...so naturally we kept adding to it and he's still in my contacts as that long-ass name.

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 1 points 2 years ago

I've got a similar thing in my phone too lol

I've considered changing her name but it's muscle memory now so I can't change it

[-] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 8 points 2 years ago

Is your name not Bruce? That could cause confusion!"

[-] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago
[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

As the wearer of a 3-syllable name, I'm okay with this.

Spitting image is 4 syllables, though, unless the I is silent or something...

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I usually drop the consonants and pronounce it as a scream.

[-] SolarNialamide@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Lmao, my name is 4 syllables and whenever I introduce myself it's 50/50 whether I get 'Oh what a pretty name' or 'cool, what can we shorten it to?'

[-] elementalguy2@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

Had a Nathaniel in my school, was either called Nat or Fanny.

[-] Shapillon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've got a 2 syllables name which usually is shortened to one. (Sasha -> Sha)

It's so common that I tense up when someone uses the full version xD

It means you're in trouble, Sasha.

[-] Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

flees behind the couch

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I don't think "Jennifer" is that hard to pronounce...

Sorry, got tongue-tied with a crazy name like that. How about Jen?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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