Asking the real questions

It’s time to log off and get a vasectomy

Can I kill someone who wants to do this? How do I legally get away with it?

Plead permanent sanity. If I was the judge I would let you go.

Plead permanent sanity.

temporary sanity is the best I can manage these days.

Of myself of the now dead purpetrator?

Unix or dos format?

Anyway, you probably need to put a backslash before it to indicate line continuation.

But wouldn’t it be better to use something more traditional, such as <br>?

HTML is more traditional than \n?

True, poor choice of phrase.

But I was thnking of something like

#define my_macro does not fit\
on one line

Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can’t pronounce a newline, so there’s that.

How do you pronounce the hyphen in double barrelled names?

The hyphen can provide indicators on how to parse the letters on either side. “Pen-Island” would be pronounced differently from “Penisland.”

There’s a guy I follow on the internet called “penusbmic”, and he claims it’s supposed to mean “Pen, USB, Mic”.

Whatever you say, Penus B. Mic.

But differently spelled names are legally distinct.

i think they mean that pronounciation matters for determing validity, not for the actual record or distinguishing between names

But that doesn’t really address the original question, does it? You don’t have to pronounce all the letters in a name, so the fact that you can’t pronounce a newline isn’t sufficient to demonstrate that it can’t be part of a name.

John
(long pause)
Doe

But something has to be written on the birth certificate and social security card, and that’s what everything else will expect you to use. I think just due to technical limitations (e.g. of the printer/template for those things) it wouldn’t be allowed, but I dunno about legally

Just pronounce \n as a glottal stop.

Try telling that to .

I really can’t even begin to properly explain this because it’s just so many layers of intuition. No, you absolutely cannot have a line break in your name. That’s not a letter. That said, I’m fully prepared for someone to give me an example of some writing system that uses line breaks for unique purposes apart from spaces.

Chaotic neutral response: A line break is just white space.

Most languages use white spaces

apart from spaces

😎🤙

its not just a white space. Sometimes it entails a white space, when theres still space on that line. Sometimes it does not.

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