In South Korea it's actually against the law for children to be given names longer than 5 syllables.
Fuck the government, I'll call my child Haneulbyeollimgureumhaennimbodasarangseureouri if I want!
Han gonna grow up OK. Even if a little resentful.
하늘별림구름핸님보다사랑스러우리
[more lovely than] sky star cloud god?
I was living in Seoul many (many) moons ago. I remember all forms having three character spaces each for first and last names. Fun times squeezing in a standard western ten-twenty latin character names. Even transliterated to hangul my name wouldn't fit. It was always a small thrill if the person behind the counter would look terrified and accept it without question or get pissy and refuse it without mercy.
Based
*fewer
That's a really dumb name, but we can shorten it to Les
Linguistic prescriptivism disgusts me.
Dismissal of context and nuance for intentionally less comprehensive and accurate communication disgusts me.
*fewer
What, you can't remember and pronounce Bartholomew Chungus Gingersnap the Third off the top of your head?
Just call me Big Chungus
Is your name not Bruce? That could cause confusion!"
As the wearer of a 3-syllable name, I'm okay with this.
Spitting image is 4 syllables, though, unless the I is silent or something...
I usually drop the consonants and pronounce it as a scream.
Lmao, my name is 4 syllables and whenever I introduce myself it's 50/50 whether I get 'Oh what a pretty name' or 'cool, what can we shorten it to?'
Had a Nathaniel in my school, was either called Nat or Fanny.
I don't think "Jennifer" is that hard to pronounce...
Sorry, got tongue-tied with a crazy name like that. How about Jen?
I've got a 2 syllables name which usually is shortened to one. (Sasha -> Sha)
It's so common that I tense up when someone uses the full version xD
It means you're in trouble, Sasha.
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