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Re: Would you have been able to resist?
By: NealC Date: December 2, 2018, 4:18 am
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Did you hear about the guy in California who couldn't get the
government to give him the personalized license plates he
wanted?
He changed his name to JKL-347A
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Re: Would you have been able to resist?
By: SHL Date: December 2, 2018, 4:26 am
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I never heard of that one.
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Re: Would you have been able to resist?
By: NealC Date: December 2, 2018, 4:31 am
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It is a California joke.
We in the rest of the country tell them all the time, we just
don't tell you guys about it.
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Re: Would you have been able to resist?
By: SHL Date: December 2, 2018, 4:37 am
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I think I missed the humor because California hasn`t had 6 digit
license plate numbers since about 1979. There`s too many people
and cars, unlike in most states, so we`ve had 7 digit numbers
since about 1980.
I see it now. It was the 6 digit thing that through me. The 6
digit thing is probably every State other than CA.
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Re: Would you have been able to resist?
By: Pasha Date: December 2, 2018, 4:48 am
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Parents were struggling in choosing their kid's name so they
just wrote first five letter of alphabet because you can't
leave First Name line blank. That kid got lucky she could be
named Qwerty or 12345 though I am not sure if can use numbers as
a name. Can you do that in US?
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Re: Would you have been able to resist?
By: NealC Date: December 2, 2018, 5:08 am
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It seems this parent did it on purpose and is trying to defend
their stupidity. If you don't have a name when they make the
birth certificate you can insert a placeholder (like John or
Jane Doe) until you decide. Not sure how long you have to come
up with a name.
Some states have rules on names, a couple in New Jersey had
their children removed when they named their children after
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. It wasn't the only reason (the
father had a history of violence) but it was a contributing
factor.
For the most part however people can name their kids all sorts
of things, and because English is not phonetic, they can spell
it in a variety of ways. Even skipping vowels, as this mother
did.
The fault lies first with the parents. For me it was hard
enough to go thru life with my mother's insistence on using the
minority spelling of my first name, and my father's insistence
of the Italian form being on the birth certificate. My birth
certificate therefore has two first names, which is a problem on
every interaction with the government that I have ever had.
The employee should not have made fun, commented publically, or
published pictures of the name on his Facebook. They deserve to
be fired.
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Re: Would you have been able to resist?
By: Alharacas Date: December 2, 2018, 5:48 am
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[quote author=NealC link=topic=656.msg9834#msg9834
date=1543748923]
My birth certificate therefore has two first names, which is a
problem on every interaction with the government that I have
ever had.
[/quote]
That's interesting, Neal. Here, it's still customary to give
children several first names. The first one is usually the one
chosen by the parents, the one they want to call their child by.
The others are often added to please or honour the
godmother/father, or a favourite family member. And yes, it is a
problem anytime you have to fill in an official form.
This made me check and I find that clerks at the registry office
may refuse to allow more than 5 first names, because "the state
has an obligation to protect the child from parents'
irresponsible name-giving". This is what the judges said when a
mother wanted to burden her child with these 12 first names:
Chenekwahow Tecumseh Migiskau Kioma Ernesto Inti Prithibi Pathar
Chajara Majim Henriko Alessandro
Quoted from this article:
HTML https://www.focus.de/finanzen/recht/tid-7660/namensrecht_aid_135751.html
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Re: Would you have been able to resist?
By: NealC Date: December 2, 2018, 6:20 am
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Do you have middle names in Germany? In the U.S. the middle
name is often used as an honorific. My son's middle name is
Joseph, to honor his maternal grandfather and great grandfather,
and my daughter's middle name is Irene, to honor my grandmother.
We were told that it was Italian tradition to name the first
male child after the paternal grandfather, and the second after
the father. So my extended family has the joy of 12 males
sharing only 4 first names.
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Re: Would you have been able to resist?
By: Alharacas Date: December 2, 2018, 8:03 am
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Middle names - not as such, no. They are not part of our
name-giving tradition, and there is no space provided for a
middle name on German forms.
Of course, if your family name is Schmidt and you've named your
son Karl, and have given him 2 further first names, like
Friedrich and Theodor, then you're free to call out "Karl
Friedrich Theodor!" whenever you want him to come in for dinner
and aren't short of breath. Or just "Karl Friedrich", if you
like. If this is how you'd like this teachers to call him, then
it's best to hyphenate: Karl-Friedrich. However, Friedrich will
never be referred to as "middle name", just as a second first
name. And I think you'd run into difficulties if you wanted to
give a traditional last name as a second first name, as in Karl
Müller Schmidt (never mind the reason).
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Re: Would you have been able to resist?
By: Susan Date: December 2, 2018, 1:15 pm
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If the United States has laws about naming children, they are
state laws, not U.S. laws. This article says in California the
names can not contain umlauts or accents.
HTML http://nation.time.com/2013/08/12/from-messiah-to-hitler-what-you-can-and-cannot-name-your-child/
I remember a conversation amongst several school social workers
about the strange names of chidren they had encountered in their
work. One guy said that when he worked in Arkansas, they had an
informal ¨contest¨for which social worker could provide
documentation of the worst named children in their schools. He
said in that area there were many illiterate parents who chose
names based on things they read in the pamphlets in the
hospital. The ¨winning names¨ were twins-- Syphilis and
Gonorrhea. I can´t swear it´s true. I could hope it was a
joke.
I can swear it´s true that I had a girl in one of my schools
named ¨Expensive.¨ While chatting with her grandmother one day
I got up the nerve to ask her about the child´s name. She said
the child was named this way because the birth was very
expensive.
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