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Originally Posted by jason taylor
I came up with this thinking of exotic onasmatics (a good subject for another thread as it happens). Suppose every person's name was chosen at random out of a computer.
Then I tried to think of how it would tie to governmental systems. And it came to me. Each name has a numerological value. Suppose by a given algorithm certain names are always considered to be names for nobles or elders or whatever. Instead of a geneological aristocracy we have an onasmatic one?.
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It seems to me that the most vulnerable point in this system is for someone to obtain control of whatever process assigns the names. Or records and enforces them - clearly it's not going to work if people can call themselves whatever they want, so there needs to be a Name Use Police of some sort.