In South Korea it’s actually against the law for children to be given names longer than 5 syllables.
Fuck the government, I’ll call my child Haneulbyeollimgureumhaennimbodasarangseureouri if I want!
Han gonna grow up OK. Even if a little resentful.
I’m currently rereading the stormlight archive atm lol
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.
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That’s a really dumb name, but we can shorten it to Les
Linguistic prescriptivism disgusts me.
Dismissal of context and nuance for intentionally less comprehensive and accurate communication disgusts me.
You’ll be okay. We all have our pet peeves, and none of us can expect the world to abide by them.
You’ll be ok. Sometimes you’ll be wrong, and someone will have the right to point that out, but you’ll be ok.
People who use words like “prescriptivism” to sneer at others disgust me.
Hypocrite! /s
Your not going to point out they’re mistakes.
Is your name not Bruce? That could cause confusion!"
What, you can’t remember and pronounce Bartholomew Chungus Gingersnap the Third off the top of your head?
Just call me Big Chungus
Bart “Big” Chungus
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.
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
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…
laughs in Irish name
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?’
Had a Nathaniel in my school, was either called Nat or Fanny.
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.
flees behind the couch
I don’t think “Jennifer” is that hard to pronounce…
Sorry, got tongue-tied with a crazy name like that. How about Jen?
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