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conulyIf you have any influence or control at all over the people who run a database with people's names, please please please do whatever you can to make sure they accept hyphens and apostrophes. This is 2022! You don't need to be so stingy with what are, in fact, pretty common aspects of a lot of people's names!
My sister should not have spent half this day arguing with the hospital over whether or not the name Anne-Marie properly contains a fucking hyphen.
My sister should not have spent half this day arguing with the hospital over whether or not the name Anne-Marie properly contains a fucking hyphen.
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Date: 2022-09-16 09:25 pm (UTC)unfortunately, ACME's database apparently cannot handle hyphens. and we serve *lots* of people with double-barreled last names. it's a big commercial DB in the field, and I've no idea just what the programming problem is, we were just warned years ago not to include hyphens. so we're supposed to enter last names separately (I do usually include hyphens in first names, and so far things have not blown up). and I include the apostrophes, as we also serve a population which tends to use those lots