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clarkm on Sept 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Your name is way too long for your ID

What about names like Sarah Saint John or Sarah Saint Clair? And I'm not sure the abbreviated versions (with St.) are any easier to deal with.

Or how about Joran van der Sloot?

pc86 on Sept 13, 2013 [–]

I don't have much of any experience with Dutch names, is "van der Sloot" the entire last name?

My example was meant to be "the final word and all preceeding lowercase words are considered the last name."

Luc on Sept 13, 2013 | [–]

That wouldn't work on my name, because in my case the 'Van' is capitalized.

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