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oncallthrowlast Thursday at 7:21 PM1 replyview on HN

It’s to do with the length of the name. My own name is polysyllabic and also wouldn’t work as a “Fact”, and I’m as white as they come.


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Lerclast Thursday at 7:34 PM

That's kind of the point. In a culture where names commonly have a lot of syllables, the length of the name is much less of an issue. That tiny discomfort of the extra effort to process more syllables disappears when it's not considered 'extra'

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