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by mcphage 1008 days ago
Yeah, good point. Some cultures don't have... uh... names?

Hmm.

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names *

In particular, check out numbers 5, 20, 29, 32-36, and very specifically, number 40, should interest you. (See 24-27 if you take umbrage at the applicability of the previous set of rules.)

* https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

There are people without names. There are no cultures without names.
That's #8.

> 8. People’s names change, but only at a certain enumerated set of events.

Pirahã are an example, they change their names at whim and everyone else accepts this.