once you've had to write down a person's name, you'll never stop wanting to beat the person who invented "first name middle name last name" to death with your bare hands

@apophis why?

@shroomie people with multi-part given names that don't make sense if you split them according to the space

people with multiple surnames

people with only one name

people who go by their middle name

people who have multiple given names

people who have only one name

people with multi-part last names that don't make sense if you split them according to the space ("Beethoven's middle name is 'van' with a small V")

etc.

@apophis ahhhh. yeah. my mother had raised some orphans from africa before she had me and they have non-traditional (by america’s standards) names, and she’s told me how much of a headache getting them registered for things like driver’s licenses was.