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[-] FiniteLooper@lemm.ee 53 points 7 months ago

My health insurance company did this with my first name. Now when I communicate with them in any way, even a doctor telemedicine visit,I have to pretend my name is Christophe.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

Could've gone with Hristopher, I guess?

[-] FiniteLooper@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

I’d love to join a zoom call with a doctor and watching them try to pronounce that.

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Christofer

E: scrolled down to realize I'm like the third person to say this. So original 🙄🤷

[-] orphiebaby@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's a nickname for Hristorectomy.

[-] Threeme2189@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Krtsfr is as concise as can be

[-] elDalvini@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 7 months ago
[-] Kase@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago
[-] Vent@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago

Name input should exclusively be an infinitely sized canvas, got it.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Falsehoods programmers believe about names:

    1. Names are representable using an n-dimensional infinite canvas. Nobody has a name requiring an (n+1)-dimensional representation.
[-] SkyeHarith@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Strongly resisting the urge to rename myself to the concept of ℂⁿ⁺¹.

How do you spell it? You can't. Muahahaha

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

That's why you should store names as images

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Hello, I am 😘 😚 🫡. Nice to meet you

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

How do you pronounce it? Kissy kissy salute?

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Please, just kall me Kiss.

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

🎶 Thaaaaaat’s myyyy name toooo 🎶

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

Impossible, no two people on earth have the same image name!

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Most of the time I don't remember what I commented so me receiving this notification made me think you're one of those spam bots

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago

Alright alright but surely people’s names are diverse enough such that no million people share the same name.

Who thinks that?

There's about 5,000 people working at the organization I work at and there's loads of people who have the same name, first and last.

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

One of my financial accounts wouldn't let me transfer money to another because my name wasn't exactly the same on that account.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago

Christophe sounds cooler, anyway.

[-] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Every substitute teacher I ever had called me Christophe thanks to the school district’s character limit.

[-] spiffynova@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

As a fellow Christophe, I too have seen this all my life.
It's comical that so many companies and systems just decided "No one will ever have a name longer than 10 characters, right?"

[-] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

It’s wild considering it was one of the most popular names for a while. There were 3 other Christophe’s in my class at one point.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

South Korea actually has a law that nobody can have names longer than 5 symbols since a traditional name is never longer than that and it's all their systems are setup to handle.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Cristopher
Christophr
Christofer

So many options, so few letters

[-] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago
[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Malprctce, I was named after my uncle, he's in insurance.

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

This immediately made me think of Frozen. That's what having kids does to your brain.

[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago

You write Chris, and then they lock your account because they think you're fraudulent

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

"Fuckyou" is less than 10 characters.

[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

So is the poop emoji.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago
[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

I also love when systems tell me my name is “invalid” because it has a character they don’t like.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

Try to rephrase it

[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago
[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago
[-] King3d@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

This guy FATs

[-] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago
[-] lrnz92@feddit.it 3 points 7 months ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 7 months ago
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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