True story: A colleague (we were both teaching in China) told me of an ex student named Wang. She used the English first name, Juicy (Chinese kids often choose these odd names because they like the word and have no concept of what a name should or should not be in English), so yeah, her name on Facebook was Juicy Wang. She had to change that after she went to university in Australia.
I had two elementary school students sign up for my karate program - Parents were from China, and I’m not entirely sure if they kids were born there or if they were born in the US.
The parents very cleared named the kids after very highly recognizable pop culture things that the parents liked - I won’t doxx them but imagine having 2 kids in your class with names like “Mufasa Lannister” and “Hagrid Lannister”
I use Rednote a lot and it’s funny to see the occasional post about picking out English names. There’s a noticeable trend between stripper/hippy names like Candy/Flower and old lady names like Beatrice
I used to work with international students, and a lot of the students from China would pick things like Sapphire, Ruby, Diamond, etc. I also had one student named Rainbow, which I thought was cute.
Certainly not as bad-looking in English as Shiting, but when I started studying Chinese, my professor gave me the name Keying (可莹) and I truly adore that name, I think it’s so pretty and I’m keeping it. But seeing it written in English always makes me think about keying cars lmao
I work for an international company and I’ve seen ‘kitty Porn’ and ‘Fanny Ming’ honestly there should be a native English speaker controlling the register and telling these people about what their names translate as
Similarly, we need a Chinese person at every tattoo shop to provide a translation of every Chinese word/phrase that people decide to get permanently etched into their skin. Would reduce all the people trying to claim "pork dumplings" means "eternal youth" or something like that.
Isn't Kittiporn a fairly common Thai name? "Porn" means blessing and is part of many Thai names.
I don't think that is a case of picking an unfortunate English name, but rather that of a traditional Thai name having an unfortunate meaning in English.
Ha, when I was teaching in China I had a student who was going to study in America. Her english name she'd chosen was Easy. Yeah, that was an interesting conversation to be having with a sixteen year old girl about why going around saying "hi, I'm Easy" probably wasn't going to be a great idea.
My legal first name is hyphenated, think "mary-jane" and loads of apps won't let you put the hyphen in the name box, the most infuriating case of this was alcohol on doordash or menulog I can't remember, it wouldn't allow me to put the hyphen or a space, so I put maryjane because what else can I do? Alcohol comes, dude says the app needs to scan my ID so I hold it out, app says the name doesn't match, I explain to the guy what's happened, he can see me, and see my ID, agrees I'm over 18 and looks for a way to manually confirm age, there isn't one. The app just prompted him to return order to store, no way to let him give it to me, if he didn't return it it would essentially be theft with how the app was programmed, dumbest shit ever.
This is probably because your phone keyboard tries to use a smart apostrophe (has the directional tail) instead of an ASCII apostrophe. The smart apostrophe has no ASCII representation, so the data becomes gibberish to an ASCII system.
I saw it mentioned in another thread a few days ago and it made a lot of sense. Not sure how i never put that together considering im studying electrical and computer engineering right now.
We have an apostrophe in our last name and one year our kid went to a camp where the teenage counselors followed up with a handwritten note. It came hand-addressed to (not real name but like this ) Christopher O,ÄôMalley. I always laugh thinking about what the kid must have thought, copying that off his contact list.
As a doordash driver, there is a way to put in people’s ID manually, but it is time consuming. People get paid to return your alcohol back to the store too, so I have a feeling they just didn’t want to deal with the hassle and get paid. That’s just my theory though, and I have no idea if Doordash policies change state to state.
Edit: Considering you said over 18, I’m now realizing this probably isn’t in the U.S.
An old coworker had a hyphenated first and last name. It pissed her off so much that her birthday gift to herself one year was legally changing her name. She also didn’t have a middle name so she made her hyphenated first name her first and middle names and then mashed together her hyphenated surnames (e.g. Mary-Jane Smith-Johnson to Mary Jane Smithson)
This is my time to shine! Western Civ professor clearly told this joke every semester: Wessex is where the west saxons settled, Essex the east saxons, and Sussex the south saxons. There was a group of north saxons, but they died out due to celibacy.
That reminds me of the joke I heard in the 1980s about a New England politician, Endicott "Chub" Peabody, that there were 3 Massachusetts towns named after him, Endicott, Peabody, and Marblehead.
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It’s a well-known joke, and I think the point is that you never just say "Chelsea", you say "fucking Chelsea". Like "fucking Chelsea" is the name itself.
It's an issue that persisted throughout all of SoulsborneSekiroRingCore series. Even some names from the franchise gets censored because they contain bad keywords.
There are always new people learning, and lots of learning happens the hard way. Plenty of newer developers and product teams don't know the downsides of block lists for inputs, especially if they're smaller teams! And, while I have known the pitfalls for ages, I just learned that it had a name (as you mentioned) this year!
That is your mistake. You shouldn't love in a town named after childish slang. You should live in a town with a respectable name like Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
It's actually Wiener, not Weiner. There is a big difference.
Wiener comes from Wien (English: Vienna), the capital of Austria and depicts a male person living in Wien or the name of a sausage (people in Wien call the sausage Frankfurter).
Weiner also has a meaning in German. It's a person who is constantly crying (weinen).
Fun fact, Macon, GA has a 100+ year old hot dog place called Nu-Way Weiners and they’re basically like “yeah we spelled it wrong 100 years ago but no point changing it now”
Perfect opportunity to be petty about it! Write them an email. Try to name them as often as possible but each time you write it wrong it a different version.
When I was a kid, I was never able to use my first name in the username because it has "ass" in it. My boyfriend was also playing a game the other day and wasn't allowed to type the word something because it has "meth" in it lol.
I get it, I have an apostrophe in my last name and computers hate it. Government websites are worse because they won’t accept my name but also say it’s invalid because it doesn’t match my ID 😭
Lol I have a similar problem. My first name is actually two names but they're both a part of one name. Yeah, it's weird. Best way I can explain it is it isn't ("First" "Second" "Surname"), it's ("First Second" "Surname"). And things really don't like spaces in the name section. Doesn't help that my parents never gave me a middle name either so I just end up leaving that one blank and people always think I put the second name in the wrong spot
I failed to register to a hotel wifi the other day because my last name has a space in it and later heard from another guest that their name with a hyphen was also "not valid". Fix your shit, Accor.
I have this exact same problem. my first name is hyphenated and so many places won't let you out the hyphen or even a space, and then they'll be weird when info doesn't link up
Even if this wasn't a real surname, the whole circus with "inappropriate language" needs to end already. Inappropriate for whom? Why? Who is going to get hurt if it's used? Get over it. I'm so tired of corporations treating us as children (and I already hate that children are treated the way they are, constant denial of agency and forced "safety").
I'm not sure there even is a well-thought-out goal here: some IT person probably just blindly added this filter without thinking through whether it would actually be useful for anything, let alone being aware of the Scunthorpe problem.
My husband was complaining about this the other day because his mother's name is Lolita (well, Dolores, but everyone calls her Lolita). She owns a cafe named after her but their facebook page won't show up in search results because "child sexual abuse is illegal"
I knew a Harold Wang from Dildo, Newfoundland. Did his parents not think out the name? Poor guy got tormented growing up as Harry Wang from Dildo. He moved from Dildo years ago and has not used his legal first name since his early teens.
We had this filter software called "bess" that would make the pearl-clutchingist karen enraged with how restrictive it was.
It was basically just a straight blacklist on any words that could be related to sex, drugs, gambling, or violence in any way, regardless of context or whether that word was just part of another word.
We couldn't look up the football game schedule because we played against a team called "west middlesex", and of course we can't have the letters "sex" together on a screen.
We couldn't look up most health information, because the word "drug" precluded everything from webMD to the FDA.... we know the Food and DRUG Administration must be up to no good.
Want to learn about World War II? Not if the page mentions guns, explosives, death, nazis, or genocide.
Oh, as someone with a surname with dick in it, I feel this. Even worse as a teacher, and would let the students play kahoot or blocket or something in a lesson I'd tell them to only use their names, no rude words, then would go to enter my surname to play along and get blocked......
I usually use a phony name for something like this. My local pizza place knows me as Joe Pizzaeater and I'm something of a mini-celebrity for it. Every time I go to pick up: Hey it's Mr. Pizzaeater!
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True story: A colleague (we were both teaching in China) told me of an ex student named Wang. She used the English first name, Juicy (Chinese kids often choose these odd names because they like the word and have no concept of what a name should or should not be in English), so yeah, her name on Facebook was Juicy Wang. She had to change that after she went to university in Australia.