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		ck2 on Sept 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your name is way too long for your ID Am I the only one who wants to know how it is pronounced and what the meaning possibly is? I'm with her on this one but I am curious how a government would handle an ancestral name that has glyphs.

joshz on Sept 13, 2013 | [–]

How it's pronounced: http://www.khon2.com/2013/09/10/action-line-state-alters-wom...

tshaddox on Sept 13, 2013 | | [–]

Or an ancestral name with 10^1000 letters. It's easy to reduce the argument to absurdity.

wcfields on Sept 13, 2013 | [–]

I wonder if a first nations person in Canada can have the syllabics[1] put on their ID?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics

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