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Old Oct 23, 2008, 1:12 pm
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finlandia
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
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I have a two-word middle name, and so I have two middle initials. My driver's license shows this, but my airline info will not because their systems can't handle the second letter/word. Now there's a mismatch. Anyone think TSA's system will be able to handle that. Some cultures go up to five or more words. Long ones.

A lot of Chinese people don't have middle names. Even worse, I can see the TSA being ignorant and figuring that the second word must be the middle name. So "Tai Sing Kuo" ends up with "Sing" as his new middle name. Which will be recorded incorrectly forever because you know that the TSA will never correct any mistakes.

Yeah, this is going to go well.
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