Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions

brainzzz@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Best suggestion IMO.
  Or research the history of your correctly spelled last name and see if you like any more common historical variants.

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  • mote@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My immediate thought: the paperwork system of the world would fail. Correcting an extremely unique misspelled name (let’s say it’s two letters transposed) falls into that weird bucket of “close enough typos” that the OP would never recover. I’d be worried most about the financial systems screwing me over.

    IMHO, best to change to something clearly different so that the paperwork world is given a clear indication of intentional change. Broadcast the intent loud and clear to force systems to change and not ignore it as “some stupid typo.” $0.02

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Could do a double change. Change from Zmyth to Brewski and then back to Smith, avoiding the misspelling pitfall.

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    • brainzzz@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, good point!

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