I continue to be amazed at how *bad* IT systems are at handling names—even the whitest of Anglo names.
I just found a student in our student records who has a roman-numeral suffix (like “John Doe IV”) and he’s in the database with a double-barrelled surname “Doe Iv”.
It dook me a second of seriously wondering what the ethnic origin of the surname “Iv” might be...
Thanasis Kinias /
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2023-08-28 17:43:02
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