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> I've come around to arguing for "name" to just be a text field. No rules.

This is the morally correct solution, but governments run on forms and forms run on fields and fields were created by people who knew, as a matter of absolute ontological certainty, that names are FIRST MIDDLE-INITIAL LAST with a possibly blank MIDDLE-INITIAL. As for letters, if it isn't on Ethel's typewriter it doesn't exist.

If you want to protest the form, line forms over there, face-down, nine-edge first.



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