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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by craigds on Friday August 18, 2017 @11:22AM (#15046975)
Dutch names (two or three word surnames with spaces) confuse all sorts of systems/people.
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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by sobani on Monday August 21, 2017 @10:51AM (#15065010)
Dutch first names confuse systems as well. Gmail doesn't understand the first name of my colleague is "Jan Willem" and not just "Jan", when showing the list of recipients.
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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by b3lvedere on Friday August 18, 2017 @07:12PM (#15050474)
Many years ago computer systems analyzed my last name, which are two seperate words, as me being married. I got quite some snail mail calling me Mrs. [2nd part of last name] for some weird reason.
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