@Ghost-of-a-Duke: You're born with no name, after six months your parents didn't decided what name to give you, by what name would you be called ??
@eye-of-horus-42 saidYou will have a nickname, you are always called something. It's common these days to change your first name and your surname too as long as you follow the procedures.
@Torunn: When you're born until your parents decided for given name 'that could be six months' how are you identified ??
Of course people have changed names. So it is well known that in some tribes of the native Americans the child was given some name, that changed during the inititaion into adukthood. And maybe again at some important moment in life.
Or if you want to go into the bible, some people got new names at some point (think e.g. Yakub - Israel)
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If, for some reason, we are not comfortable with the names given by our parents, we will find another name even formally, my friends have done that.
@Torunn saidIt is possible in Germany, though altering the family name is a BIG pain and removing the given name is near to impossible, but adding another given name is no problem and to get your "nom de plume" noted into the passport is also comparatively easy.
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If, for some reason, we are not comfortable with the names given by our parents, we will find another name even formally, my friends have done that.
And I know a few people who never bothered with the passport and it is hillarious if their "real" name is revealed.
In fact my mother goes by the given name Uta, but has Ute in her passport, since the official in Rankweil didn't recognise Uta as proper name.
@Ponderable saidThere are probably good reasons why it shouldn't be too easy but with all fake possibilities, who knows? With the use of computers, not to mention AI, anything can happen and the truth is hard to find, maybe not even possible.
It is possible in Germany, though altering the family name is a BIG pain and removing the given name is near to impossible, but adding another given name is no problem and to get your "nom de plume" noted into the passport is also comparatively easy.
And I know a few people who never bothered with the passport and it is hillarious if their "real" name is revealed.
In ...[text shortened]... ta, but has Ute in her passport, since the official in Rankweil didn't recognise Uta as proper name.
@eye-of-horus-42 saidI starting speaking at the age of 2 months. I would self identify as Bartholomew.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke: You're born with no name, after six months your parents didn't decided what name to give you, by what name would you be called ??
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@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidOne month after you started playing chess 😄
I starting speaking at the age of 2 months. I would self identify as Bartholomew.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidI 'starting' speaking 😞
I starting speaking at the age of 2 months. I would self identify as Bartholomew.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidI remember that day, wasn't that the day you solved world peace and decided to not tell anyone
At the age of 7 weeks I had an enthralling game of chess with Bobby Fisher, (ended in a draw by 3 fold repetition).
@yo-its-me saidYes, the very same day.
I remember that day, wasn't that the day you solved world peace and decided to not tell anyone
(I also invented Teflon).
@Ghost-of-a-Duke saiddu Pont's Polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE ?
Yes, the very same day.
(I also invented Teflon).