People with real l337 speak names? 1441
An anonymous reader writes "I'm considering naming my first-born child either Br4d or J4n37, depending on gender. My wife isn't too keen on the idea but there's plenty of time left to persuade her. Anyway, it had me wondering whether there are any people out there with real l337 speak given names (or even just a digit in their name). Do you know of any? Other than people saying your dad is a l4m3r, What are the possible pitfalls of having a digit in your name? Is it legal to have a digit in a name? Am I guaranteeing my child becomes a misfit? Am I the misfit?" Ask Jennifer 8. Lee.
one of my first CS TAs in college (Score:5, Interesting)
First use of a number in a name (Score:2, Interesting)
Any earlier reference to a number in a name in fiction? Not just the idea that your name could be replaced with a number, but a number in a name.
You can call me: (Score:2, Interesting)
But serisously f0lks:
There was a US couple who decided to version number their children. [theregister.co.uk] I'm suprised that his wife actually agreed to it.
Don't (Score:3, Interesting)
I know from personal experience.I have a strange name..Aram, Simple but different. . I've had a few people tell me what they were expecting from name someone "with a turban". Or my last name Com jean which some people think as french "you don't speak french???". I'm just a caucasion with some armenian mixed in.
My name I like, but I'm often pre judged on it. I can't imagine what Dweezle Zappa would go through if his father wasn't so famous.
My Grandpa is 1337! (Score:3, Interesting)
My grandfather's name is A C (let's call him Jonesmith for privacy). When he married my grandmother (first grandpa died before I was born), I thought his name was "Acee", like the local milk company [cgi.ebay.ca]. But his first name is "A", and his middle name is "C". And his full name is A C Jonesmith, not A. C. Jonesmith.
So the blogger is right -- if her middle name is "8", it should be "Jennifer 8 Lee", no period.
And my grandpa was 1337 before 1337 was invented.
Re:Ry4an (Score:3, Interesting)
The name pattern nazis. (Score:2, Interesting)
My rule is that others can use my full name without any initials; they can use the form shown above; or they can use simply "Craig Altenburg". I tend to use the latter.
I had given (passing) thought to giving one of my kids "7" as a middle initial. If you say it as part of a full name it does not sound too obnoxious but, it would cause grief with some (in may opinion) brain damaged programs.
When I code programs that require users to enter a name, I prefer asking for "Family Name" and "Given Names". Where either field can contain whatever characters the users wish to enter.
Must clarify... (Score:5, Interesting)
She uses the number "8" in her byline, a clever device she came up with to differentiate herself from the hordes of other Asian girls named "Jennifer Lee". In fact, I believe there was actually another Jennifer Lee at her high school (Stuyvesant, in NYC, if I remember correctly) that wrote for the paper and she wanted to differentiate herself.
Lots of people have made up stories about the origins of "that wacky NY Times writer's middle initial", that her parents gave her the middle intial "8" because it's a lucky number in China or some such thing. These stories were either made up by silly people or things she once told at a party after a few beers just to see if people would actually believe them, and they have propagated over the Internet (because when you are a Circuits writer, you get geek-fans). The 8 is a creation of her own. Why 8 rather than 9 or 10? I believe because she thought it sounded cool, though the number may have some other personal significance.
So these days she may actually tell people her name is Jennifer 8. Lee because that's her byline and it's become associated with her. But it certainly wasn't her given name by her parents, and to the best of my knowledge she has never gone and changed her legal name or anything of that sort.
Real, almost l337 name; numbers not allowed (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh, and it doesn't matter because the US doesn't allow numbers in names [soyouwanna.com]
Re:sending e-mail (Score:5, Interesting)
John.
Max Barry (Score:3, Interesting)
(It's a GREAT book, by the way. :) )
Triv
Re:Don't do it (Score:3, Interesting)
Alfred Bester was here first... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Ry4an (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Ry4an (Score:3, Interesting)
anonymity (Score:5, Interesting)
On the other hand, I have a friend named John Smith who was arrested on pretty serious drug charges but managed to get off without a jail sentence. There are half a dozen articles on the internet that mention his name in this regard, but type John Smith into google and they're nowhere in the first thousand results.
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Always room for Jello (Score:3, Interesting)
It's Illegal (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Housing director at my college (Score:2, Interesting)
Not necessary. In this more globalized world, and specially immigrant heavy US, there's so many unusual names, that people have stopped to raise their eyebrows for any new encountered name.
Names with digits in them will be somewhat exotic at first, but then after a while they will simply give a statement: "your parents (or grandparents or some other relatives) are/were geeks, right?"
Mod Parent Up! Re:oy (Score:3, Interesting)
Embrace the persona of "DAD". I wish my parents had...
J05H
Famous Texan "Ima Hogg" (Score:2, Interesting)
Even spaces are a problem (Score:3, Interesting)
Personally I have an uppercase in the middle of my last name, MacLeod, and that often gets filtered to lowercase, especially if an entry form is ALL CAPS and there's no real way to represent it.
Re:First use of a number in a name (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:That's nothing (Score:3, Interesting)