In South Korea it’s actually against the law for children to be given names longer than 5 syllables.
Fuck the government, I’ll call my child Haneulbyeollimgureumhaennimbodasarangseureouri if I want!
하늘별림구름핸님보다사랑스러우리
[more lovely than] sky star cloud god?
I was living in Seoul many (many) moons ago. I remember all forms having three character spaces each for first and last names. Fun times squeezing in a standard western ten-twenty latin character names. Even transliterated to hangul my name wouldn’t fit. It was always a small thrill if the person behind the counter would look terrified and accept it without question or get pissy and refuse it without mercy.
I don’t know about legality, but most forms online in Japan accept 4 characters at most for family name; the vast majority of people have two characters with one and three being less common. Okinawa, I think has the highest instance of 4-character surnames, but I may be wrong on that.
I’m currently rereading the stormlight archive atm lol
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I’ve got a 2 syllables name which usually is shortened to one. (Sasha -> Sha)
It’s so common that I tense up when someone uses the full version xD
It means you’re in trouble, Sasha.
flees behind the couch
I don’t think “Jennifer” is that hard to pronounce…
Sorry, got tongue-tied with a crazy name like that. How about Jen?
Lmao, my name is 4 syllables and whenever I introduce myself it’s 50/50 whether I get ‘Oh what a pretty name’ or ‘cool, what can we shorten it to?’
Had a Nathaniel in my school, was either called Nat or Fanny.
laughs in Irish name
What, you can’t remember and pronounce Bartholomew Chungus Gingersnap the Third off the top of your head?
A friend from highschool had a kinda long name…so naturally we kept adding to it and he’s still in my contacts as that long-ass name.
Is your name not Bruce? That could cause confusion!"