Interesting. Indeed, why not just ask “what would you like to be called?” and maybe for administrative(?) purposes ask the full name.
Naming is a tar pit and even Westerners might like to be called John when their name is Winstonshire. Let’s not even bother.
What is the downside? I’m not seeing it. I see people here recommending to implement logic to handle this fully and I’m not seeing why this would be preferable.
Heck, I just saw on Reddit some guy just discovered his girlfriend's "real name" is "Lawr'ryn" due to dumb parents. She preferred to go by Lauren. And her brother Pur'see went by Percy.
Why, as a system designer, would you force your user to see "Lawy'ryn" every day just because that's on some government document somewhere?
Naming is a tar pit and even Westerners might like to be called John when their name is Winstonshire. Let’s not even bother.
What is the downside? I’m not seeing it. I see people here recommending to implement logic to handle this fully and I’m not seeing why this would be preferable.