Re:The Å-Machine
by towb on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:12PM
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Å is a good letter in many ways, but not for names. Just my opinion, and I do have around 30 years of personal experience :P
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I can see where you're coming from. My native language (Finnish) also uses letters with diareses, mostly ä and ö but also å. But I did make sure my kids' names are easy to spell and pronounce in English. A name like Ääliö would be just asking for trouble, in many senses. ;)
My HN username should be språk but I couldn't register it that way.
Which is usually a thing even on local sites for some reason.
Nothing huge ever happened because of my Å name, but it piles up over the years. Biggest issue was when a very confused man tried to check me in at an airport and had no idea how. Took maybe 20-30 minutes and the solution was "AA". Probably not as much manual typing these days, this was 10+ years ago.
Åh where was that?
Language? :)