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[–] [email protected] 144 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

The idiocy of naming your kid Khaleesi aside, the UK just decided that a corporation can own your name and prevent you from enjoying the rights of your citizenship.

That's pretty fucked.

Edit - Apparently they did backtrack. But it's still amazing that anyone even thought that was a thing.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Khaleesi is a nice name aside from the fact that I think it's a title...

Khaleesi is a title, not a name. In the fictional world of "Game of Thrones," it means "queen" in the Dothraki language and is given to the wife of a Khal, the leader of a Dothraki tribe. The character Daenerys Targaryen is often referred to as Khaleesi. - chat gpt

Ya... It's a title.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I've had students named Happy, Classic, Diamonds, Epiphany, Scorpio, you name it. I wouldn't even cock my head to the side with a Khaleesi on my roll sheet at this point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

You name it is the weirdest of them all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Classic? Who in the right mind!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I once met a female stripper named Adonis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You know the Gilmores?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

There are literally people named "Princess". Not that I think that does wonders for their life either.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The idiocy of naming your kid Khaleesi aside

It's nice sounding as a name though, I wouldn't be in a rush to condemn someone for it. Now when it's the 5th "unique" spelling of Madison that starts to get a little ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a nice sounding name if you don't know where it comes from. Considering how well known Game of Thrones is it sounds like "I'm sorry your parents are idiots."

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Passport Office reportedly later called Lucy to apologize for the error.

No, they can't. That's not how copyright works. Read the damn article.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

But how can I be outraged then?

I am glad to hear they're not officially taking corporate feudalism for a ride.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It seems that there is only two restrictions in the UK on naming a child at birth. That is that it must fit on a single line on the birth certificate and not contain numeric characters except things like ii to refer to the second.

If you want to change your name later in life there is a lot of restrictions but as far as I know copyright enforcement is still not one. You can find a list here if you are interested.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Regina, Adelina, Cesare, surely there are other names.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Rex ~ Regina, but thanks for Zoltan, made me remember Basil by association.

EDIT: And Despina. EDIT2: There don't seem to be many people called Despot, but Tiran (not Tigran) is a name one can sometimes encounter among Armenians.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Zoltan?

Isn’t that a race in FTL?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Used to work with a Zoltan.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dated a girl named Mercedes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mercedes is actually an old Spanish name too though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mercedes was the name of Emil Jellinek's daughter, Emil has the idea to develop sports cars, he designed and commissioned cars from an engineering company and named the model-line after her.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying they should just use lojban?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Presumably they won't get sued by IP ("intellectual property") trolls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Until they register in that language too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps you're correct.

I tried looking into copyright status of Lojban and found nothing.

I'm pretty sure wp:Láadan was released into the public domain.

Láadan word for "queen."

http://www.laadanlanguage.org/l2e.html

unáhizh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Fwiw, the passport office also backtracked. But now I have a new Internet rabbit hole, so thanks for that!